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Collision repair and body shops in Meade County, KS
How Meade County, KS compares with other counties and the U.S. for collision repair and body shops: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
- Listings
- 1
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $1.8M
- On vehicle maintenance and repairs · $1,229 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.8M
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 6.7
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 3,852
- −5.1% since 2020
See the collision repair and body shops around any address in Meade County
The site report maps the collision repair and body shops on map listings near the address, by name and distance, and sizes the households and spending around it. Or open the report at the center of Meade County. Signed out, you see a blurred preview; on an account, each report is one action.
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 1 collision repair or body shop in Meade County. That is 6.7 per 10,000 households.
Household spending on vehicle maintenance and repairs in Meade County comes to about $1.8M a year: $1,229 per household, 28% above the U.S. average. That is about $1.8M of household spending for each shop on map listings. That spending covers all vehicle maintenance and repairs, which collision repair and body shops share with other businesses in the trade.
There is no official count of businesses with payroll classed as automotive body, paint and interior repair in Meade County: counts under 3 aren’t published.
Population estimates show Meade County declined 5.1% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t given a market score, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
How Meade County compares
The same measures for Kansas and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all vehicle maintenance and repairs by the collision repair and body shops 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 | Meade County | Kansas | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 6.7 | 3.3 | 3.1 |
| Spending per listing | $1.8M | $3.4M | $3.1M |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 3,114 | 3,689 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | −7.8% | −0.8% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −5.1% | +1.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on vehicle maintenance and repairs | $1,229 | $1,140 | $958 |
| Median household income | $71,852 | $74,275 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 52 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- n/a
- Employees, 2023
- n/a
- Annual payroll, 2023
- n/a
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 10 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 1The 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 automotive body, paint and interior repair in Meade 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 Meade County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 3,852−5.1% since 2020
- Households
- 1,502
- Median age
- 38.6
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 74%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.2
- Land area
- 978 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 4
- Median household income
- $71,852
- Average household income
- $108,362
- Median home value
- $148,900
- Jobs located here
- 1,523
- Daytime population
- 3,815Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
Looking at a specific site in Meade County?
These figures cover the whole county. A site report draws rings around one address and counts what’s inside them: households, spending, jobs, and the collision repair and body shops on map listings by name and distance.
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Every Kansas market ranked →The highest-scoring counties in Kansas for collision repair and body shops, numbered among those based in Kansas, with Meade County marked.
Top counties in Kansas
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Johnson County, KS | 88 | 45 | 1.8 | $6.5M | +4.2% | #17 of 1,327 |
| 2Douglas County, KS | 78 | 8 | 1.6 | $6.5M | +1.8% | #84 of 1,327 |
| 3Riley County, KS | 78 | 5 | 1.8 | $5.8M | +0.8% | #85 of 1,327 |
| 4Shawnee County, KS | 72 | 17 | 2.3 | $4.5M | 0.0% | #171 of 1,327 |
| 5Leavenworth County, KS | 72 | 10 | 3.3 | $3.8M | +3.2% | #180 of 1,327 |
| 6Wyandotte County, KS | 64 | 18 | 2.9 | $3.6M | +1.0% | #342 of 1,327 |
| 7Butler County, KS | 59 | 11 | 4.3 | $3M | +3.1% | #460 of 1,327 |
| 8Sedgwick County, KS | 55 | 64 | 3.1 | $3.5M | +2.6% | #540 of 1,327 |
| 9Saline County, KS | 47 | 9 | 4.0 | $2.6M | −1.6% | #726 of 1,327 |
| 10Pottawatomie County, KS | 45 | 7 | 7.5 | $1.8M | +6.9% | #786 of 1,327 |
| Meade County, KS | Not scored | 1 | 6.7 | $1.8M | −5.1% |
Other business types in Meade County
None has a Groundwork market score here. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
Auto
Beauty and personal care
Fitness and classes
Health care
Child care
Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many collision repair and body shops are in Meade County, KS?
There is 1 collision repair or body shop on map listings in Meade County as of September 2026. The listings count collision repair and auto body shops. No official count is published for automotive body, paint and interior repair in Meade County: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in Meade County, KS spend on vehicle maintenance and repairs?
About $1.8M a year, or $1,229 per household. That is 28% above the U.S. average (an index of 128, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1 collision repair or body shop on map listings, it comes to $1.8M per shop. The spending figure covers all vehicle maintenance and repairs, not only collision repair and body shops. It is estimated from the incomes of the 1,502 households in Meade County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Meade County, KS compare with the U.S. for collision repair and body shops?
Meade County has 1 collision repair or body shop on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. The count on map listings matches the U.S. ratio of collision repair and body shops to household spending.
How fast is Meade County, KS growing?
Population estimates put Meade County at 3,852 people in 2025, down 5.1% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 1,502 households. The median household income in Meade County is $71,852 a year, 11% 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 score leaves out counties under 10,000 people, where a handful of businesses would swing it.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
Run a Groundwork site report on an address in Meade County. It maps the collision repair and body shops on map listings near the site and sizes the households and spending within the distance you choose. New accounts get 10 actions over 3 days, no card.
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