Trends · data through September 2026

Sporting Goods Stores in Iowa

Iceflower tracks 119 stores from 95 sporting goods store chains in Iowa. Scheels grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dunham's Sports and DICK'S Sporting Goods.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
95
Tracked stores
119
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked sporting goods store chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Scheels and Dunham's Sports sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Scheels - +1.9%
2 Dunham's Sports - +0.5%
3 DICK'S Sporting Goods - -0.8%
4 Bike World - -8.1%
  • Scheels
  • DICK'S Sporting Goods
  • Bass Pro Shops
  • Golf Headquarters
  • Sports Page
  • Golf Galaxy
  • Play It Again Sports
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

119 tracked store locations in Iowa. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 26 of the 119 stores (22%); 87 of the 95 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked retail stores here are sporting goods stores, the same share as across the United States.

  • Scheels (4)
  • DICK'S Sporting Goods (7)
  • Bass Pro Shops (2)
  • Golf Headquarters (1)
  • Sports Page (1)
  • Golf Galaxy (1)
  • Play It Again Sports (5)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 DICK'S Sporting Goods 7
  • 2 Dunham's Sports 6
  • 3 Play It Again Sports 5
  • 4 Scheels 4
  • 5 Bike World 4
  • 6 Bass Pro Shops 2
  • 7 Austad's Golf 2
  • 8 The Black and Gold Shop 2
  • 9 T9Team Sporting Goods 1
  • 10 Free Flight 1
  • 11 Trek Bicycle 1
  • 12 Van Ginkel Athletic Manufacturing 1
  • 13 Modern Bike 1
  • 14 Crawdaddy Outdoors 1
  • 15 Goldfinch Cyclery 1
  • 16 Capital City Kubota 1
  • 17 Rose Bowl 1
  • 18 Sommerfeld Outfitters 1
  • 19 RynoVelo Bike Shop 1
  • 20 Cabana Swim 1
  • 21 Woods Sporting Goods 1
  • 22 No Limits Outdoors 1
  • 23 Decorah Bicycles 1
  • 24 Big Cock Bike Shop 1
  • 25 BonduBikes 1
  • 26 Northtowne Cycling & Fitness 1
  • 27 Iowa Bike Co. 1
  • 28 R & R Sports 1
  • 29 Diventures 1
  • 30 Archery Field & Sports 1
  • 31 MVP Sports 1
  • 32 JAX Outdoor Gear 1
  • 33 Hunter and Hunter Bait and Tackle 1
  • 34 Glenn's Reel & Rod Repair 1
  • 35 DAY Sports Marketing 1
  • 36 Clear Lake Bait & Tackle 1
  • 37 Hank's Live Bait and Tackle 1
  • 38 Dad's Bait Shop 1
  • 39 Crazy Minnow Bait & Tackle Co. 1
  • 40 Back 40 Archery 1
  • 41 Troublesome Creek Outfitters 1
  • 42 Bowlers Connection 1
  • 43 The Bike Barn 1
  • 44 Professional Bowling Concepts 1
  • 45 Monticello Sports 1
  • 46 Mak's Bait Shack 1
  • 47 Highland Arms 1
  • 48 Twisterz Pro Shop 1
  • 49 Iowa Sports Supply 1
  • 50 Waterloo Bicycle Works 1

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