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Clothing and shoe stores in the Jacksonville, FL metro area

How the Jacksonville, FL metro area compares with other metro areas and the U.S. for clothing and shoe stores: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.

Groundwork market score · out of 100

Score 55 out of 100: Upper middle

Ranked #173 of 387 scored metro areas
#12 of 22 scored metro areas based in Florida

Listings
1,080
462 chain locations (43%)
Official establishments
562
−7.7% since 2019
Household spending a year
$1.3B
On clothing, shoes and related services · $1,971 a household
Spending per listing
$1.2M
5% below the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
16.3
In line with the U.S.
Population, 2025
1,785,500
+10.7% 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 clothing, shoes and related services in the Jacksonville metro area comes to about $1.3B a year: $1,971 per household, 4% below the U.S. average. Spread across 1,080 clothing and shoe stores, that is $1.2M per store, 5% below the U.S. figure of $1.3M. The spending figure covers all clothing, shoes and related services, not only clothing and shoe stores.

The Jacksonville metro area has 1,080 clothing and shoe stores on map listings as of September 2026. 462 of them (43%) are chain locations, against 44% across the U.S. That is 16.3 per 10,000 households, in line with the U.S. rate of 16.2.

Official counts show 562 businesses with payroll classed as clothing and shoe stores in the Jacksonville metro area in 2023, down 7.7% from 2019. That is one for every 1,180 households, against one for every 1,273 across the U.S. Official counts also show 1,288 one-person businesses without payroll. Since fiscal 2022, 17 SBA-backed loans worth $8.3M have gone to businesses classed as clothing and shoe stores in the Jacksonville metro area.

Population estimates put the population change in the Jacksonville metro area from 2020 to 2025 at +10.7%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). For clothing and shoe stores, the Jacksonville metro area has a Groundwork market score of 55 (upper middle): #173 of 387 scored metro areas and #12 of 22 scored metro areas based in Florida.

How the Jacksonville metro area compares

The same measures for Florida and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all clothing, shoes and related services by the clothing and shoe stores 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 and shoe stores in Jacksonville, FL metro area compared with Florida and the U.S.
MeasureJacksonville metro areaFloridaU.S.
Listings per 10k households16.318.116.2
Spending per listing$1.2M$1.1M$1.3M
Households per official establishment1,1801,0541,273
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023−7.7%−9.5%−12.2%
Population growth, 2020–2025+10.7%+8.7%+3.1%
Spending per household on clothing, shoes and related services$1,971$1,922$2,055
Median household income$79,643$74,568$80,734
Groundwork market score5536

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
562−7.7% over the period
Employees, 2023
7,274
Annual payroll, 2023
$146.3M
One-person businesses, 2023
1,288Businesses with no payroll
Map listings, September 2026
1,080462 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
1,029The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here

SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022

Loans
17
Amount
$8.3M

SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as clothing and shoe stores in the Jacksonville 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 Jacksonville metro area

Population, 2025 estimate
1,785,500+10.7% since 2020
Households
663,101
Median age
40.3
Homes lived in by their owners
66%
Vehicles per household
1.7
Land area
3,202 sq. mi.
People per square mile
526
Median household income
$79,643+29.0% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$108,638
Median home value
$343,400
Jobs located here
779,445
Daytime population
1,697,743Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Clothing and shoe stores across Florida

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The highest-scoring metro areas in Florida for clothing and shoe stores, numbered among those based in Florida, with the Jacksonville metro area marked.

Top metro areas in Florida

Metro areas in Florida ranked for clothing and shoe stores by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1Wildwood-The Villages, FL88365.1$3.6M+21.1%#6 of 387
2Punta Gorda, FL81717.8$2.3M+15.5%#16 of 387
3Homosassa Springs, FL80395.5$3.1M+11.1%#17 of 387
4Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL8026210.2$1.9M+9.1%#19 of 387
5Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL792749.5$1.9M+19.8%#24 of 387
6Ocala, FL751529.2$1.8M+17.3%#37 of 387
7Port St. Lucie, FL7126913.1$1.4M+16.0%#57 of 387
8Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL6835212.0$1.5M+11.2%#73 of 387
9Sebring, FL685010.7$1.5M+9.7%#74 of 387
10Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL6327513.6$1.4M+6.5%#112 of 387
12Jacksonville, FL551,08016.3$1.2M+10.7%#173 of 387

Other business types in the Jacksonville metro area

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

Questions

How many clothing and shoe stores are in the Jacksonville, FL metro area?

Map listings as of September 2026 show 1,080 clothing and shoe stores in the Jacksonville metro area. 462 of them (43%) are chain locations. The listings count clothing, shoe and accessory stores and boutiques. Official counts show 562 businesses with payroll classed as clothing and shoe stores in 2023, down 7.7% from 2019. Another 1,288 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.

How much do households in the Jacksonville, FL metro area spend on clothing, shoes and related services?

About $1.3B a year, or $1,971 per household. That is 4% below the U.S. average (an index of 96, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1,080 clothing and shoe stores on map listings, it comes to $1.2M per store. That spending covers all clothing, shoes and related services, which clothing and shoe stores share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 663,101 households in the Jacksonville metro area and national spending patterns by income.

How does the Jacksonville, FL metro area compare with the U.S. for clothing and shoe stores?

The Jacksonville metro area has 16.3 clothing and shoe stores per 10,000 households, in line with the U.S. rate of 16.2. Spending per store is $1.2M, 5% below the U.S. figure of $1.3M. At the U.S. ratio of clothing and shoe stores to household spending, the Jacksonville metro area would have about 1,029, against 1,080 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,180 households, against one for every 1,273 across the U.S. The official count fell 7.7% from 2019 to 2023, against −12.2% for the U.S.

How fast is the Jacksonville, FL metro area growing?

Population estimates put the Jacksonville metro area at 1,785,500 people in 2025, up 10.7% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 663,101 households. Median household income in the Jacksonville metro area is $79,643, in line with the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 29.0%, 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 Jacksonville metro area scores 55 for clothing and shoe stores (upper middle), #173 of 387 scored metro areas.

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