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Barbershops in Brazos County, TX

How Brazos County, TX compares with other counties and the U.S. for barbershops: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.

Groundwork market score · out of 100

Score 53 out of 100: Upper middle

Ranked #633 of 1,356 scored counties
#35 of 109 scored counties in Texas

Listings
52
11 chain locations (21%)
Official establishments
3
Businesses with payroll, 2023
Household spending a year
$75.4M
On personal care products and services · $828 a household
Spending per listing
$1.5M
23% below the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
5.7
8% above the U.S.
Population, 2025
249,088
+6.2% since 2020

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Survey estimates 2020–2024 · population estimates 2025 · official business counts 2023 · map listings September 2026 · Data credits · How we measure

What this means

Household spending on personal care products and services in Brazos County comes to about $75.4M a year: $828 per household, 18% below the U.S. average. That works out to $1.5M per shop, 23% below the U.S. figure of $1.9M. The spending figure covers all personal care products and services, not only barbershops.

Brazos County has 52 barbershops on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 21% of them, against 12% across the U.S. That is 5.7 per 10,000 households, 8% above the U.S. rate of 5.3.

Official counts show 3 businesses with payroll classed as barber shops in Brazos County in 2023. That is one for every 30,362 households, against one for every 16,589 across the U.S. Another 105 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $150K has gone to businesses classed as barber shops in Brazos County.

Population estimates put the population change in Brazos County from 2020 to 2025 at +6.2%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). For barbershops, Brazos County has a Groundwork market score of 53 (upper middle): #633 of 1,356 scored counties and #35 of 109 scored counties in Texas.

How Brazos County compares

The same measures for Texas 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.

Barbershops in Brazos County, TX compared with Texas and the U.S.
MeasureBrazos CountyTexasU.S.
Listings per 10k households5.76.95.3
Spending per listing$1.5M$1.4M$1.9M
Households per official establishment30,36218,17016,589
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023n/a+65.8%+28.5%
Population growth, 2020–2025+6.2%+8.5%+3.1%
Spending per household on personal care products and services$828$937$1,005
Median household income$58,553$78,476$80,734
Groundwork market score5334

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
3 → 3
Employees, 2023
7
Annual payroll, 2023
$120K
One-person businesses, 2023
105Businesses with no payroll
Map listings, September 2026
5211 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
40The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here

SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022

Loans
1
Amount
$150K

SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as barber shops in Brazos County, 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 Brazos County

Population, 2025 estimate
249,088+6.2% since 2020
Households
91,087
Median age
31.6
Homes lived in by their owners
47%
Vehicles per household
1.8
Land area
586 sq. mi.
People per square mile
413
Median household income
$58,553+19.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$88,892
Median home value
$296,000
Jobs located here
119,110
Daytime population
263,107Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Barbershops across Texas

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The highest-scoring counties in Texas for barbershops, numbered among those based in Texas, with Brazos County marked.

Top counties in Texas

Counties in Texas ranked for barbershops by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1Medina County, TX7852.8$3.2M+11.4%#92 of 1,356
2Burnet County, TX7873.3$2.8M+15.2%#94 of 1,356
3Waller County, TX7773.8$2.5M+21.9%#113 of 1,356
4Guadalupe County, TX77264.0$2.5M+15.8%#114 of 1,356
5Wise County, TX7252.0$5M+21.5%#172 of 1,356
6Denton County, TX711674.6$2.4M+16.9%#209 of 1,356
7Fort Bend County, TX711585.4$2.1M+17.4%#213 of 1,356
8Johnson County, TX70304.6$2.1M+20.5%#245 of 1,356
9Montgomery County, TX691224.9$2.1M+24.9%#268 of 1,356
10Williamson County, TX691325.2$2.1M+22.3%#269 of 1,356
35Brazos County, TX53525.7$1.5M+6.2%#633 of 1,356

Other business types in Brazos County

Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.

Questions

How many barbershops are in Brazos County, TX?

Map listings as of September 2026 show 52 barbershops in Brazos County. 11 of them (21%) are chain locations. The listings count barbershops. Official counts show 3 businesses with payroll classed as barber shops in 2023. Official counts list 105 one-person businesses without payroll.

How much do households in Brazos County, TX spend on personal care products and services?

About $75.4M a year, or $828 per household. That is 18% below the U.S. average (an index of 82, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 52 barbershops on map listings, it comes to $1.5M per shop. That spending covers all personal care products and services, which barbershops share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 91,087 households in Brazos County and national spending patterns by income.

How does Brazos County, TX compare with the U.S. for barbershops?

Brazos County has 5.7 barbershops per 10,000 households, 8% above the U.S. rate of 5.3. Spending per shop is $1.5M, 23% below the U.S. figure of $1.9M. At the U.S. ratio of barbershops to household spending, Brazos County would have about 40, against 52 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 30,362 households, against one for every 16,589 across the U.S.

How fast is Brazos County, TX growing?

Population estimates put Brazos County at 249,088 people in 2025, up 6.2% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 91,087 households. The median household income in Brazos County is $58,553 a year, 27% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 19.1% from the 2015–2019 survey, 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. 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. Brazos County scores 53 for barbershops (upper middle), #633 of 1,356 scored counties.

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