Construction labor shortage in Iowa.
How tight is construction hiring in Iowa? AlphaHire normalizes open construction roles against the state's population to measure demand against the available workforce — not raw job-post volume.
What 50/100 means for hiring in Iowa.
Iowa ranks #26 of 51 for construction hiring pressure, with an Open Role Pressure Index of 50 — roughly in line with the national reading of 47. Employers posted 114 construction roles in Iowa, or 3.55 per 100,000 residents. The market is balanced but trending toward scarcity. Specific trades are already tight even where the headline is moderate.
The heaviest demand is concentrated in Data Center Construction, Electricians, Superintendents. Because this index normalizes by population, it surfaces where the open-role burden is heaviest relative to the people available to fill it — a different and more operationally useful signal than which states simply post the most jobs.
Where Iowa's construction hiring is concentrated.
Construction job posts in Iowa by role family, from AlphaHire's job-posting dataset. Counts are directional and refreshed continuously.
How the index is built.
The Construction Labor Shortage Index is a directional workforce-intelligence product from the AlphaHire Workforce Intelligence Lab. U.S. construction job postings are deduplicated, classified by construction relevance, assigned to a state, and normalized against the latest U.S. Census resident-population estimates:
open_roles_per_100k = construction_job_posts / state_population × 100,000
Every state's value is percentile-ranked into a 0–100 Hiring Competition Index and classified by severity: Critical (85–100), Severe (75–84), Elevated (60–74), Tightening (45–59), Manageable (below 45). Built on a 3,743,416-row job-posting dataset; 12,452 U.S. construction roles classified.
Adjacent states by pressure.
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