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Clothing, shoe and laundry businesses in Nantucket County, MA

How Nantucket County, MA compares with other counties and the U.S. for clothing, shoe and laundry businesses: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.

Groundwork market score · out of 100

Score 34 out of 100: Lower middle

Ranked #1,744 of 2,210 scored counties
#12 of 14 scored counties in Massachusetts

Listings
111
17 chain locations (15%)
Official establishments
40
+2.6% since 2019
Household spending a year
$16.7M
On clothing, shoes and related services · $3,188 a household
Spending per listing
$151K
83% below the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
211.3
9.1 times the U.S.
Population, 2025
14,758
+3.6% 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

Nantucket County scores 34 (lower middle) on the Groundwork market score for clothing, shoe and laundry businesses, ranking #1,744 of 2,210 scored counties and #12 of 14 scored counties in Massachusetts. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.

Household spending on clothing, shoes and related services in Nantucket County comes to about $16.7M a year: $3,188 per household, 55% above the U.S. average. That works out to $151K per business, 83% below the U.S. figure of $880K.

Nantucket County has 111 clothing, shoe and laundry businesses on map listings as of September 2026. 17 of them (15%) are chain locations, against 37% across the U.S. That is 211.3 per 10,000 households, 9.1 times the U.S. rate of 23.3.

Official counts show 40 businesses with payroll classed as clothing and shoe stores, laundromats and dry cleaners in Nantucket County in 2023, up 2.6% from 2019. That is one for every 131 households, against one for every 1,008 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $85K has gone to businesses classed as clothing and shoe stores, laundromats and dry cleaners in Nantucket County. Population estimates put the population change in Nantucket County from 2020 to 2025 at +3.6%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%).

How Nantucket County compares

The same measures for Massachusetts and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all clothing, shoes and related services by the clothing, shoe and laundry businesses counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.

Clothing, shoes and laundry in Nantucket County, MA compared with Massachusetts and the U.S.
MeasureNantucket CountyMassachusettsU.S.
Listings per 10k households211.325.123.3
Spending per listing$151K$1.1M$880K
Households per official establishment1319161,008
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023+2.6%−12.8%−12.0%
Population growth, 2020–2025+3.6%+2.4%+3.1%
Spending per household on clothing, shoes and related services$3,188$2,675$2,055
Median household income$139,688$103,960$80,734
Groundwork market score3462

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
39 → 40+2.6% over the period
Employees, 2023
131
Annual payroll, 2023
$8M
One-person businesses, 2023
17Businesses with no payroll
Map listings, September 2026
11117 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
19The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here

SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022

Loans
1
Amount
$85K

SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as clothing and shoe stores, laundromats and dry cleaners in Nantucket 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 Nantucket County

Population, 2025 estimate
14,758+3.6% since 2020
Households
5,252
Median age
42.4
Homes lived in by their owners
72%
Vehicles per household
1.9
Land area
46 sq. mi.
People per square mile
314
Median household income
$139,688+29.7% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$205,560
Median home value
$1,593,800
Jobs located here
6,570
Daytime population
13,667Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Clothing, shoes and laundry across Massachusetts

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The highest-scoring counties in Massachusetts for clothing, shoe and laundry businesses, numbered among those based in Massachusetts, with Nantucket County marked.

Top counties in Massachusetts

Counties in Massachusetts ranked for clothing, shoe and laundry businesses by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1Franklin County, MA78278.6$2.5M−0.3%#165 of 2,210
2Hampshire County, MA789615.5$1.6M+10.4%#178 of 2,210
3Worcester County, MA7750315.0$1.7M+3.7%#189 of 2,210
4Plymouth County, MA6543521.4$1.3M+3.5%#538 of 2,210
5Middlesex County, MA601,49323.5$1.3M+2.8%#715 of 2,210
6Bristol County, MA5851422.0$1.1M+2.9%#787 of 2,210
7Hampden County, MA5435319.1$1.1M+0.2%#949 of 2,210
8Essex County, MA5184226.9$981K+2.3%#1,107 of 2,210
9Norfolk County, MA5081128.6$1.1M+2.2%#1,127 of 2,210
10Suffolk County, MA381,08533.2$778K+0.1%#1,595 of 2,210
12Nantucket County, MA34111211.3$151K+3.6%#1,744 of 2,210

Other business types in Nantucket County

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

Questions

How many clothing, shoe and laundry businesses are in Nantucket County, MA?

Map listings as of September 2026 show 111 clothing, shoe and laundry businesses in Nantucket County. 17 of them (15%) are chain locations. The listings count clothing, shoe and jewelry stores, laundromats and dry cleaners. Official counts show 40 businesses with payroll classed as clothing and shoe stores, laundromats and dry cleaners in 2023, up 2.6% from 2019. Another 17 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.

How much do households in Nantucket County, MA spend on clothing, shoes and related services?

About $16.7M a year, or $3,188 per household. That is 55% above the U.S. average (an index of 155, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 111 clothing, shoe and laundry businesses on map listings, it comes to $151K per business. It is estimated from the incomes of the 5,252 households in Nantucket County and national spending patterns by income.

How does Nantucket County, MA compare with the U.S. for clothing, shoe and laundry businesses?

Nantucket County has 211.3 clothing, shoe and laundry businesses per 10,000 households, 9.1 times the U.S. rate of 23.3. Spending per business is $151K, 83% below the U.S. figure of $880K. At the U.S. ratio of clothing, shoe and laundry businesses to household spending, Nantucket County would have about 19, against 111 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 131 households, against one for every 1,008 across the U.S. The official count rose 2.6% from 2019 to 2023, against −12.0% for the U.S.

How fast is Nantucket County, MA growing?

Population estimates put Nantucket County at 14,758 people in 2025, up 3.6% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 5,252 households. The median household income in Nantucket County is $139,688 a year, 73% above the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 29.7% 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. Nantucket County scores 34 for clothing, shoe and laundry businesses (lower middle), #1,744 of 2,210 scored counties.

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