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Chiropractors in the Waco, TX metro area
How the Waco, TX metro area compares with other metro areas and the U.S. for chiropractors: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 65 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #80 of 386 scored metro areas
#12 of 25 scored metro areas based in Texas
- Listings
- 36
- 5 chain locations (14%)
- Official establishments
- 22
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $118.1M
- On medical and dental services · $1,062 a household
- Spending per listing
- $3.3M
- 37% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 3.2
- 41% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 308,807
- +4.2% since 2020
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What this means
At $1,062 per household (18% below the U.S. average), households in the Waco metro area spend about $118.1M a year on medical and dental services. That is about $3.3M of household spending for each practice on map listings, 37% above the U.S. figure of $2.4M. The spending figure covers all medical and dental services, not only chiropractors.
The Waco metro area has 36 chiropractors on map listings as of September 2026. Of those, 5 are chain locations, or 14%, against 8% across the U.S. That is 3.2 per 10,000 households, 41% below the U.S. rate of 5.4.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as offices of chiropractors in the Waco metro area was 22 in 2023. That is one for every 5,054 households, against one for every 3,237 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 2 SBA-backed loans worth $155K have gone to businesses classed as offices of chiropractors in the Waco metro area.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Waco metro area grew 4.2%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). The Groundwork market score for chiropractors in the Waco metro area is 65 (upper middle), #80 of 386 scored metro areas and #12 of 25 scored metro areas based in Texas. That puts it in the top quarter of metro areas.
How the Waco metro area compares
The same measures for Texas 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 | Waco metro area | Texas | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 3.2 | 4.7 | 5.4 |
| Spending per listing | $3.3M | $2.5M | $2.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 5,054 | 4,235 | 3,237 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +7.6% | +0.8% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +4.2% | +8.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on medical and dental services | $1,062 | $1,164 | $1,288 |
| Median household income | $66,205 | $78,476 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 65 | 62 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 22
- Employees, 2023
- 142
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $5.6M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 365 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 49The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 2
- Amount
- $155K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as offices of chiropractors in the Waco metro 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 Waco metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 308,807+4.2% since 2020
- Households
- 111,178
- Median age
- 37.1
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 64%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 2,785 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 108
- Median household income
- $66,205
- Average household income
- $91,997
- Median home value
- $234,100
- Jobs located here
- 129,143
- Daytime population
- 295,622Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top metro areas in Texas
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Midland, TX | 86 | 20 | 2.9 | $4.4M | +9.8% | #1 of 386 |
| 2Laredo, TX | 76 | 15 | 1.8 | $5.5M | +5.2% | #19 of 386 |
| 3Killeen-Temple, TX | 75 | 44 | 2.5 | $4.3M | +7.2% | #22 of 386 |
| 4Odessa, TX | 75 | 18 | 2.8 | $3.9M | +5.0% | #24 of 386 |
| 5San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX | 75 | 324 | 3.3 | $3.4M | +9.5% | #25 of 386 |
| 6McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX | 71 | 67 | 2.5 | $3.9M | +5.6% | #42 of 386 |
| 7Brownsville-Harlingen, TX | 70 | 28 | 2.0 | $4.7M | +3.0% | #45 of 386 |
| 8Abilene, TX | 70 | 17 | 2.6 | $4.1M | +4.8% | #47 of 386 |
| 9College Station-Bryan, TX | 69 | 33 | 3.1 | $3.4M | +6.9% | #54 of 386 |
| 10Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX | 69 | 1,139 | 4.3 | $2.8M | +10.3% | #58 of 386 |
| 12Waco, TX | 65 | 36 | 3.2 | $3.3M | +4.2% | #80 of 386 |
Other business types in the Waco metro 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 Waco, TX metro area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 36 chiropractors in the Waco metro area. 5 of them (14%) are chain locations. The listings count chiropractors. Official counts show 22 businesses with payroll classed as offices of chiropractors in 2023.
How much do households in the Waco, TX metro area spend on medical and dental services?
About $118.1M a year, or $1,062 per household. That is 18% below the U.S. average (an index of 82, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 36 chiropractors on map listings, it comes to $3.3M 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 111,178 households in the Waco metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Waco, TX metro area compare with the U.S. for chiropractors?
The Waco metro area has 3.2 chiropractors per 10,000 households, 41% below the U.S. rate of 5.4. Spending per practice is $3.3M, 37% above the U.S. figure of $2.4M. At the U.S. ratio of chiropractors to household spending, the Waco metro area would have about 49, against 36 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 5,054 households, against one for every 3,237 across the U.S.
How fast is the Waco, TX metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Waco metro area at 308,807 people in 2025, up 4.2% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 111,178 households. The median household income in the Waco metro area is $66,205 a year, 18% below the U.S. median of $80,734.
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. The Waco metro area scores 65 for chiropractors (upper middle), #80 of 386 scored metro areas.
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