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Clothing, shoe and laundry businesses in the Grants Pass, OR metro area

How the Grants Pass, OR metro area compares with other metro areas and the U.S. for clothing, shoe and laundry businesses: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.

Groundwork market score · out of 100

Score 59 out of 100: Upper middle

Ranked #128 of 387 scored metro areas
#4 of 8 scored metro areas based in Oregon

Listings
49
13 chain locations (27%)
Official establishments
16
Businesses with payroll, 2023
Household spending a year
$59.6M
On clothing, shoes and related services · $1,623 a household
Spending per listing
$1.2M
38% above the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
13.3
43% below the U.S.
Population, 2025
87,867
−0.4% 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

At $1,623 per household (21% below the U.S. average), households in the Grants Pass metro area spend about $59.6M a year on clothing, shoes and related services. That is about $1.2M of household spending for each business on map listings, 38% above the U.S. figure of $880K.

There are 49 clothing, shoe and laundry businesses on map listings in the Grants Pass metro area as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 27% of them, against 37% across the U.S. That comes to 13.3 for every 10,000 households, 43% below the U.S. rate of 23.3.

Official counts show 16 businesses with payroll classed as clothing and shoe stores, laundromats and dry cleaners in the Grants Pass metro area in 2023. That is one for every 2,295 households, against one for every 1,008 across the U.S. Official counts also show 55 one-person businesses without payroll.

Population estimates show the Grants Pass metro area declined 0.4% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S. The Groundwork market score for clothing, shoe and laundry businesses in the Grants Pass metro area is 59 (upper middle), #128 of 387 scored metro areas and #4 of 8 scored metro areas based in Oregon.

How the Grants Pass metro area compares

The same measures for Oregon 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 Grants Pass, OR metro area compared with Oregon and the U.S.
MeasureGrants Pass metro areaOregonU.S.
Listings per 10k households13.318.123.3
Spending per listing$1.2M$1M$880K
Households per official establishment2,2951,3631,008
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023n/a−15.4%−12.0%
Population growth, 2020–2025−0.4%+0.7%+3.1%
Spending per household on clothing, shoes and related services$1,623$1,858$2,055
Median household income$60,098$83,011$80,734
Groundwork market score5957

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
16
Employees, 2023
124
Annual payroll, 2023
$2.7M
One-person businesses, 2023
55Businesses with no payroll
Map listings, September 2026
4913 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
68The 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 clothing and shoe stores, laundromats and dry cleaners in the Grants Pass 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 Grants Pass metro area

Population, 2025 estimate
87,867−0.4% since 2020
Households
36,715
Median age
47.5
Homes lived in by their owners
72%
Vehicles per household
2.1
Land area
1,639 sq. mi.
People per square mile
54
Median household income
$60,098+31.8% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$85,314
Median home value
$404,300
Jobs located here
30,421
Daytime population
87,114Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Clothing, shoes and laundry across Oregon

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The highest-scoring metro areas in Oregon for clothing, shoe and laundry businesses, numbered among those based in Oregon, with the Grants Pass metro area marked.

Top metro areas in Oregon

Metro areas in Oregon ranked for clothing, shoe and laundry businesses by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1Corvallis, OR765013.0$1.4M+4.4%#29 of 387
2Albany, OR715611.0$1.5M+3.0%#50 of 387
3Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA701,72417.1$1.2M+1.0%#56 of 387
4Grants Pass, OR594913.3$1.2M−0.4%#128 of 387
5Bend, OR5523822.8$845K+7.0%#171 of 387
6Eugene-Springfield, OR5423514.6$1.1M−0.7%#172 of 387
7Salem, OR4231719.8$896K+2.7%#254 of 387
8Medford, OR3617418.9$902K−0.9%#288 of 387

Other business types in the Grants Pass metro area

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

Questions

How many clothing, shoe and laundry businesses are in the Grants Pass, OR metro area?

As of September 2026, map listings count 49 clothing, shoe and laundry businesses in the Grants Pass metro area. 13 of them (27%) are chain locations. The listings count clothing, shoe and jewelry stores, laundromats and dry cleaners. Official counts show 16 businesses with payroll classed as clothing and shoe stores, laundromats and dry cleaners in 2023. Another 55 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.

How much do households in the Grants Pass, OR metro area spend on clothing, shoes and related services?

About $59.6M a year, or $1,623 per household. That is 21% below the U.S. average (an index of 79, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 49 clothing, shoe and laundry businesses on map listings, it comes to $1.2M per business. It is estimated from the incomes of the 36,715 households in the Grants Pass metro area and national spending patterns by income.

How does the Grants Pass, OR metro area compare with the U.S. for clothing, shoe and laundry businesses?

The Grants Pass metro area has 13.3 clothing, shoe and laundry businesses per 10,000 households, 43% below the U.S. rate of 23.3. Spending per business is $1.2M, 38% above the U.S. figure of $880K. At the U.S. ratio of clothing, shoe and laundry businesses to household spending, the Grants Pass metro area would have about 68, against 49 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 2,295 households, against one for every 1,008 across the U.S.

How fast is the Grants Pass, OR metro area growing?

Population estimates put the Grants Pass metro area at 87,867 people in 2025, down 0.4% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 36,715 households. The median household income in the Grants Pass metro area is $60,098 a year, 26% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 31.8% 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. The Grants Pass metro area scores 59 for clothing, shoe and laundry businesses (upper middle), #128 of 387 scored metro areas.

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