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RENT CEILING: $5,360/month
Based on what the average bar in this county earns, $5,360/month is the most rent this location can carry. Add the asking rent to get a direct verdict. 1 competitors found nearby.
Bar · Polk County, Iowa, United States · generated 2026-08-14 21:38 UTC
The economics
What the average operator here does
Establishments in county measured
138
Employees each measured
9.8
Annual payroll each measured
$192,971
Implied annual revenue assumed ratio
$643,237
Rent this area can carry assumed ratio
$5,360/mo
US Census County Business Patterns 2023, NAICS 722410
Is this category growing here?
Bars grew from 124 in 2019 to 138 in 2023 (+11.3%).
Direction: expanding · US Census County Business Patterns,
an official annual count of establishments.
Who you would be competing with
1 bars
within 1.6 km.
The Carney Tap
Source: OpenStreetMap tag database (Overpass). Coverage is community-maintained and thinner than Google Maps — treat this as a floor on the
real count, not a census of it.
Who lives here
Tract population
6,772
Median household income
$72,955
Median age
42.2
Households
2,572
US Census ACS 5-Year 2022, tract level
What this report cannot tell you
Revenue is inferred from payroll using a 30% labour-cost assumption (drinking places); it is not measured revenue.
Figures describe the average existing operator in Polk County (2023 data, 138 establishments) — not a specific unit.
Nobody has walked this street. Visibility, the state of the unit, parking, which side of
the road gets the morning sun — all of it decides outcomes and none of it is in this data.
Census business data runs about two years behind. It answers whether this market is
structurally healthy, not what opened last month.