Arby's in Iowa

arbys.com · Restaurants & Fast Casual · the Q3 2026 release

Arby's has 60 locations in Iowa, its 26th-largest state of the 47 it operates in.

Arby's in Iowa

Every figure in this block is measured inside Iowa. Nothing in it is a rate.

Arby's: local figures for Iowa.
Figure	Value	What it measures~~Iowa only~~
Locations in Iowa	60	Records the US location index holds for Arby's inside Iowa right now — a snapshot at the Q3 2026 release, not a change over time.
Rank among Arby's's states	26th of 47	By location count, among the states where this brand clears the publication floor.
States with a published Arby's page	47	States where the brand has at least 3 locations. Smaller states exist in the index and are not published.
Locations across those states	3,744	The sum of the state table below. Lower than the national count, which includes states under the floor.
Iowa's share of that footprint	1.6%	A share of the published states only. Both halves are the same measure, so this is not a growth rate.
Index opening records in Iowa	0	A DIFFERENT measure from the count above: openings detected inside the tracked window, not stores standing today.
Cities with index opening records in Iowa	0	Distinct cities after folding spelling variants. See the city table.

The two counts above are measured differently and are both correct. Locations in Iowa is a presence snapshot of what operates there now; index opening records counts what opened inside the tracked window. A chain that already had 40 locations in Iowa and opened none reads 0 openings.
It is a count of OPENINGS, not of stores. Openings are diffs against the previous release, so a mature operator that finished its Iowa buildout before the window opened shows a large location count and no openings at all.
Arby's's opening records arrive overwhelmingly as supplier batches rather than as dated store openings, so they are labelled index opening records and no quarterly pace is published from them.

Where Arby's has opened in Iowa

Cities with index opening records recorded for Arby's in Iowa. The count beside each city is its openings — not its total Arby's locations.

Arby's index opening records by city in Iowa, largest first.
City~~modal spelling in the index~~	Index opening records~~inside Iowa~~	Share of Iowa openings	Spellings folded~~raw variants in the index~~
Arby's has no opening records in Iowa inside the tracked window. It operates there — the count above is a presence snapshot — but nothing opened while the window was watching.

0 cities with index opening records in Iowa.
Spellings are folded the same way the city URLs are built, so "St. Louis" and "St Louis" are one city rather than two. The most frequent raw spelling wins the label; "Spellings folded" is how many the index actually holds.
Cities are NOT linked: a city page is published only where at least three brands clear the floor, so a link from here would frequently point at a page that does not exist.

Arby's in every state we publish

The brand's whole published footprint, largest first. Iowa is highlighted in place.

Arby's locations by state.
Rank	State	Locations~~presence snapshot~~	Share of footprint~~published states only~~
1	Ohio	292	7.8%
2	Michigan	200	5.3%
3	Florida	195	5.2%
4	Texas	187	5.0%
5	Indiana	186	5.0%
6	Georgia	173	4.6%
7	North Carolina	155	4.1%
8	Pennsylvania	149	4.0%
9	Tennessee	142	3.8%
10	Illinois	134	3.6%
11	Kentucky	123	3.3%
12	Virginia	120	3.2%
13	Alabama	109	2.9%
14	Missouri	102	2.7%
15	South Carolina	100	2.7%
16	Wisconsin	100	2.7%
17	California	93	2.5%
18	Oklahoma	92	2.5%
19	Minnesota	87	2.3%
20	Colorado	81	2.2%
21	Utah	81	2.2%
22	Arizona	74	2.0%
23	New York	70	1.9%
24	Washington	64	1.7%
25	Kansas	62	1.7%
26	Iowa — this page	60	1.6%
27	Arkansas	55	1.5%
28	Maryland	55	1.5%
29	Nebraska	48	1.3%
30	West Virginia	47	1.3%
31	Mississippi	39	1.0%
32	Oregon	38	1.0%
33	Louisiana	31	0.8%
34	Nevada	28	0.7%
35	New Mexico	27	0.7%
36	Idaho	24	0.6%
37	South Dakota	19	0.5%
38	Wyoming	18	0.5%
39	New Jersey	15	0.4%
40	Delaware	14	0.4%
41	Montana	14	0.4%
42	Alaska	11	0.3%
43	North Dakota	11	0.3%
44	Connecticut	8	0.2%
45	Hawaii	4	0.1%
46	Maine	4	0.1%
47	Massachusetts	3	0.1%

A state appears here only with at least 3 locations. States below the floor are in the index but have no page, so this total is smaller than the national count.
Locations are a presence snapshot at the Q3 2026 release. They are not openings and they are not a change.

Arby's nationwide

Context for the local figures above. None of it is a Iowa number.

Arby's: national figures, for context only.
Figure	Value~~United States~~	Basis
US locations	3,756	At the latest vintage, Q3 2026.
US locations at the window start	3,829	The first tracked vintage, Q4 2024.
Net new over the window	-73	The difference between the two counts above. A count movement, not a count of openings.
Growth over the window	withheld: this brand's index coverage is still maturing — see the note under this table	Percentage change in the count between the first and latest vintages, nationwide.
Growth as a multiple	withheld: this brand's index coverage is still maturing — see the note under this table	The same movement stated as a multiple of the starting count.
Growth against its category	withheld: this brand's index coverage is still maturing — see the note under this table	The brand's percentage change minus its category's, so a rising tide is subtracted out.
Mean quarterly change	+4.3	Average count movement per vintage step. The default ranking key on the hub.
Verified openings in the window	withheld: the opening records are supplier batches — see the note under this table	Individually dated location records new to the index inside the window, nationwide.
Openings pace, latest step	withheld: the opening records are supplier batches — see the note under this table	Verified openings per 91 days over the most recent vintage step.
Openings pace, prior step	withheld: the opening records are supplier batches — see the note under this table	The same measure one step earlier.
Direction	withheld: the opening records are supplier batches — see the note under this table	Accelerating, steady or slowing, decided on the two paces at the precision they are printed.
Latest pace as a share of the base	withheld: the opening records are supplier batches — see the note under this table	The latest pace over the store count at that step's start vintage.
Prior pace as a share of the base	withheld: the opening records are supplier batches — see the note under this table	The same measure one step earlier.
Reported openings pace, latest	+4.0	The server's own pre-aggregated pace. Shown because the page ranks on the series-derived figure above and the two must agree.
Reported openings pace, prior	+18	The same, one step earlier.
Largest single step's share of the change	—	One release carrying most of the movement is the signature of a data-coverage artifact rather than of openings.
Steps that moved the same direction	43%	A real buildout moves one way most quarters. This and the row above are the credibility filter.
Passes the credibility filter	no	Largest step at or under half the movement, most steps in one direction, and net new above zero.
Cleared to print a percentage	no	Whether the index's coverage of this brand is mature enough for a rate to mean anything.
Openings corroborated by coverage	—	Share of the openings that agree with the count series over the same step.
Records matching the brand's own website	98%	Share of index records whose website resolves to this domain.
Records sharing an address with another operator	17%	High values mean host locations, sibling banners or shared kitchens rather than the chain's own leases.
Entity class	chain	Anything other than a chain is not published as a brand page in this state tier.
Category	Dining and Drinking > Restaurant > Fast Food Restaurant	The index's own category path for this brand.
Segment	Restaurants & Fast Casual	The published grouping the category rolls up to.
Match name in the index	arby s	The string the location index matches records against. Rarely the display name.
Display name	Arby's	As published. Some domains carry a read-time repair where the index's most frequent name is a department's.
Domain	arbys.com	The key every table on this tier is joined on.
Tracked window	8 vintages, Q4 2024 to Q3 2026	How many quarterly releases this brand has been measured across.
Vintage stamps	2024-11-19\|2024-12-03\|2025-03-06\|2025-06-10\|2025-09-09\|2025-12-16\|2026-03-18\|2026-07-09	Every release these figures were built from, oldest first, pipe-separated. It is a LIST of dates rather than one date, which is why nothing on this page prints it as a timestamp.

Every figure in this block is NATIONAL. It is identical on all 47 of Arby's's state pages and is not apportioned to Iowa — dividing a national percentage into a state is not a fact about anything, which is why no Iowa growth rate is published anywhere on this page.
Openings are individually dated records new to the index; net new is the difference between two count snapshots. The two answer different questions and rarely match.
Arby's's opening records arrive overwhelmingly as supplier batches rather than as dated store openings, so they are labelled index opening records and no quarterly pace is published from them.
This brand's index coverage is still maturing, so growth percentages are withheld.

Arby's's count by quarter, nationwide

The national count series behind the figures above. Both readings of it — the raw count and the indexed one — are columns here.

Arby's: US locations at each tracked vintage.
Quarter	Vintage date	US locations	Indexed~~100 = first vintage~~	Change vs prior
Q4 2024	2024-11-19	3,829	100	—
Q4 2024	2024-12-03	3,776	99	-53
Q1 2025	2025-03-06	3,751	98	-25
Q2 2025	2025-06-10	3,769	98	+18
Q3 2025	2025-09-09	3,780	99	+11
Q4 2025	2025-12-16	3,747	98	-33
Q1 2026	2026-03-18	3,760	98	+13
Q3 2026	2026-07-09	3,756	98	-4

Indexed values rebase the series to 100 at the first vintage with a non-zero count. A brand first measured at zero enters at 0 and reaches 100 one step later.
National figures. Not apportioned to any state.

Arby's's openings by vintage step, nationwide

Each row is the difference between two consecutive releases, so there is one fewer step than there are quarters above.

Arby's: index opening records per vintage step, with the real step length each pace is normalised by.
Step ends	Quarter	Openings~~in the step~~	Step length~~days~~	Pace~~per 91 days~~	Batch-suspect~~share of the step~~
Dec 3, 2024	Q4 2024	0	14	0	0%
Mar 6, 2025	Q1 2025	5	93	+4.9	0%
Jun 10, 2025	Q2 2025	30	96	+28	73%
Sep 9, 2025	Q3 2025	11	91	+11	0%
Dec 16, 2025	Q4 2025	6	98	+5.6	0%
Mar 18, 2026	Q1 2026	18	92	+18	83%
Jul 9, 2026	Q3 2026	5	113	+4.0	0%

Steps are irregular, so a pace is openings divided by the step's real length and multiplied by 91 days rather than a raw quarterly count.
A batch-suspect share above half means the records were created on an index-wide vendor ingest day or bunched into a few days of the step; it impeaches the timing, not the existence of the stores.
National figures. Not apportioned to any state.

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