Beauty and personal care · Small-town market · Alaska
Barbershops in the Ketchikan, AK area
How the Ketchikan, AK area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for barbershops: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 2.
- Listings
- 2
- 1 chain location (50%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $6.1M
- On personal care products and services · $1,068 a household
- Spending per listing
- $3.1M
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 3.5
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 13,549
- −2.6% since 2020
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 2 barbershops in the Ketchikan area. That is 3.5 per 10,000 households.
Households in the Ketchikan area spend about $6.1M a year on personal care products and services, or $1,068 per household, 6% above the U.S. average. Spread across 2 barbershops, that is $3.1M per shop. That spending covers all personal care products and services, which barbershops share with other businesses in the trade.
There is no official count of businesses with payroll classed as barber shops in the Ketchikan area: counts under 3 aren’t published.
Population estimates show the Ketchikan area declined 2.6% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S. With 2 barbershops on map listings, the Ketchikan area isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How the Ketchikan area compares
The same measures for Alaska and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all personal care products and services by the barbershops counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Ketchikan area | Alaska | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 3.5 | 3.0 | 5.3 |
| Spending per listing | $3.1M | $3.6M | $1.9M |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 19,324 | 16,589 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | n/a | +28.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −2.6% | +0.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on personal care products and services | $1,068 | $1,095 | $1,005 |
| Median household income | $92,885 | $92,788 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 64 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- n/a
- Employees, 2023
- n/a
- Annual payroll, 2023
- n/a
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 21 chain location
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 3The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as barber shops in the Ketchikan area, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in the Ketchikan area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 13,549−2.6% since 2020
- Households
- 5,732
- Median age
- 40.9
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 69%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.7
- Land area
- 4,857 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 3
- Median household income
- $92,885+27.7% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $114,287
- Median home value
- $393,300
- Jobs located here
- n/a
- Daytime population
- n/aResidents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Questions
How many barbershops are in the Ketchikan, AK area?
The Ketchikan area has 2 barbershops on map listings as of September 2026. The listings count barbershops. No official count is published for barber shops in the Ketchikan area: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in the Ketchikan, AK area spend on personal care products and services?
About $6.1M a year, or $1,068 per household. That is 6% above the U.S. average (an index of 106, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 2 barbershops on map listings, it comes to $3.1M per shop. The spending figure covers all personal care products and services, not only barbershops. It is estimated from the incomes of the 5,732 households in the Ketchikan area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Ketchikan, AK area compare with the U.S. for barbershops?
The Ketchikan area has 2 barbershops on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the national ratio of barbershops to household spending, the Ketchikan area would have about 3, against 2 on map listings.
How fast is the Ketchikan, AK area growing?
Population estimates put the Ketchikan area at 13,549 people in 2025, down 2.6% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 5,732 households. Median household income in the Ketchikan area is $92,885, 15% above the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 27.7%, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. A small-town market is a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people and the county or counties tied to it by commuting. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. The Ketchikan area has no market score for barbershops: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 2.
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