Health care · Small-town market · Oklahoma
Chiropractors in the Tahlequah, OK area
How the Tahlequah, OK area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for chiropractors: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 37 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #318 of 426 scored small-town markets
#9 of 13 scored small-town markets based in Oklahoma
- Listings
- 11
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 7
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $18M
- On medical and dental services · $963 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.6M
- 32% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 5.9
- 9% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 49,196
- +4.5% since 2020
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What this means
Household spending on medical and dental services in the Tahlequah area comes to about $18M a year: $963 per household, 25% below the U.S. average. That works out to $1.6M per practice, 32% below the U.S. figure of $2.4M. The spending figure covers all medical and dental services, not only chiropractors.
The Tahlequah area has 11 chiropractors on map listings as of September 2026. None of them are chain locations, against 8% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 5.9, 9% above the U.S. rate of 5.4.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as offices of chiropractors in the Tahlequah area was 7 in 2023. That is one for every 2,671 households, against one for every 3,237 across the U.S.
Population estimates put the population change in the Tahlequah area from 2020 to 2025 at +4.5%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). For chiropractors, the Tahlequah area has a Groundwork market score of 37 (lower middle): #318 of 426 scored small-town markets and #9 of 13 scored small-town markets based in Oklahoma.
How the Tahlequah area compares
The same measures for Oklahoma and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all medical and dental services by the chiropractors 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 | Tahlequah area | Oklahoma | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 5.9 | 5.4 | 5.4 |
| Spending per listing | $1.6M | $1.9M | $2.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 2,671 | 3,202 | 3,237 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +4.7% | +0.8% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +4.5% | +4.0% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on medical and dental services | $963 | $1,049 | $1,288 |
| Median household income | $53,218 | $65,039 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 37 | 38 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 7
- Employees, 2023
- 21
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $793K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 110 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 8The 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 offices of chiropractors in the Tahlequah 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 Tahlequah area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 49,196+4.5% since 2020
- Households
- 18,698
- Median age
- 38.1
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 66%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 749 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 64
- Median household income
- $53,218+24.4% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $72,290
- Median home value
- $168,500
- Jobs located here
- 13,276
- Daytime population
- 42,397Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Oklahoma market ranked →The highest-scoring small-town markets in Oklahoma for chiropractors, numbered among those based in Oklahoma, with the Tahlequah area marked.
Top small-town markets in Oklahoma
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Durant, OK | 66 | 6 | 3.3 | $3M | +10.9% | #82 of 426 |
| 2Duncan, OK | 62 | 7 | 4.0 | $2.6M | +3.4% | #124 of 426 |
| 3Bartlesville, OK | 58 | 9 | 4.3 | $2.4M | +2.7% | #153 of 426 |
| 4Stillwater, OK | 57 | 13 | 4.0 | $2.4M | +2.8% | #161 of 426 |
| 5Shawnee, OK | 53 | 14 | 5.2 | $1.9M | +3.5% | #194 of 426 |
| 6McAlester, OK | 44 | 6 | 3.4 | $2.8M | −1.1% | #253 of 426 |
| 7Ada, OK | 43 | 8 | 5.3 | $1.9M | +1.2% | #269 of 426 |
| 8Ponca City, OK | 43 | 9 | 5.4 | $1.8M | −0.3% | #270 of 426 |
| 9Tahlequah, OK | 37 | 11 | 5.9 | $1.6M | +4.5% | #318 of 426 |
| 10Weatherford, OK | 34 | 9 | 5.9 | $1.7M | −0.7% | #342 of 426 |
Other business types in the Tahlequah area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Questions
How many chiropractors are in the Tahlequah, OK area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 11 chiropractors in the Tahlequah area. None of them are chain locations. The listings count chiropractors. Official counts show 7 businesses with payroll classed as offices of chiropractors in 2023.
How much do households in the Tahlequah, OK area spend on medical and dental services?
About $18M a year, or $963 per household. That is 25% below the U.S. average (an index of 75, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 11 chiropractors on map listings, it comes to $1.6M per practice. That spending covers all medical and dental services, which chiropractors share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 18,698 households in the Tahlequah area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Tahlequah, OK area compare with the U.S. for chiropractors?
The Tahlequah area has 5.9 chiropractors per 10,000 households, 9% above the U.S. rate of 5.4. Spending per practice is $1.6M, 32% below the U.S. figure of $2.4M. At the U.S. ratio of chiropractors to household spending, the Tahlequah area would have about 8, against 11 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 2,671 households, against one for every 3,237 across the U.S.
How fast is the Tahlequah, OK area growing?
Population estimates put the Tahlequah area at 49,196 people in 2025, up 4.5% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 18,698 households. The median household income in the Tahlequah area is $53,218 a year, 34% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 24.4% 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. 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 Tahlequah area scores 37 for chiropractors (lower middle), #318 of 426 scored small-town markets.
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