Clothing and laundry · Metro area · Colorado
Dry cleaners in the Grand Junction, CO metro area
How the Grand Junction, CO metro area compares with other metro areas and the U.S. for dry cleaners: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 1.
- Listings
- 1
- 1 chain location (100%)
- Official establishments
- 3
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $112.9M
- On clothing, shoes and related services · $1,716 a household
- Spending per listing
- $112.9M
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 0.2
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 162,845
- +4.4% since 2020
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What this means
Households in the Grand Junction metro area spend about $112.9M a year on clothing, shoes and related services, or $1,716 per household, 17% below the U.S. average. That works out to $112.9M per shop. The spending figure covers all clothing, shoes and related services, not only dry cleaners.
There is 1 dry cleaner on map listings in the Grand Junction metro area as of September 2026. That is 0.2 per 10,000 households.
In 2023, official counts showed 3 businesses with payroll in the Grand Junction metro area classed as dry cleaning and laundry services. That is one for every 21,943 households, against one for every 8,177 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 2 SBA-backed loans worth $5M have gone to businesses classed as dry cleaning and laundry services in the Grand Junction metro area.
Population estimates put the population change in the Grand Junction metro area from 2020 to 2025 at +4.4%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). With 1 dry cleaner on map listings, the Grand Junction metro area isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How the Grand Junction metro area compares
The same measures for Colorado and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all clothing, shoes and related services by the dry cleaners 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 | Grand Junction metro area | Colorado | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 0.2 | 1.2 | 1.3 |
| Spending per listing | $112.9M | $16.9M | $15.7M |
| Households per official establishment | 21,943 | 8,360 | 8,177 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | −18.4% | −18.7% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +4.4% | +3.9% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on clothing, shoes and related services | $1,716 | $2,010 | $2,055 |
| Median household income | $73,658 | $95,470 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 47 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 3
- Employees, 2023
- 16
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $504K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 11 chain location
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 7The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 2
- Amount
- $5M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as dry cleaning and laundry services in the Grand Junction 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 Grand Junction metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 162,845+4.4% since 2020
- Households
- 65,830
- Median age
- 41.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 72%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 3,329 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 48
- Median household income
- $73,658+33.0% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $95,145
- Median home value
- $378,600
- Jobs located here
- 65,394
- Daytime population
- 156,691Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top metro areas in Colorado
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Greeley, CO | 89 | 6 | 0.5 | $40.3M | +14.2% | #1 of 272 |
| 2Fort Collins-Loveland, CO | 69 | 14 | 0.9 | $21.7M | +4.8% | #34 of 272 |
| 3Colorado Springs, CO | 57 | 32 | 1.1 | $18.1M | +3.1% | #107 of 272 |
| 4Pueblo, CO | 52 | 5 | 0.7 | $22.1M | +0.6% | #137 of 272 |
| 5Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO | 44 | 173 | 1.4 | $15M | +4.1% | #169 of 272 |
| 6Boulder, CO | 27 | 23 | 1.7 | $12.9M | −0.7% | #246 of 272 |
| Grand Junction, CO | Not scored | 1 | 0.2 | $112.9M | +4.4% |
Other business types in the Grand Junction metro area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
Auto
Beauty and personal care
Fitness and classes
Health care
Child care
Clothing and laundry
- Clothing, shoes and laundry42
- Clothing and shoe stores42
- Laundromats46
- Dry cleaners
Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many dry cleaners are in the Grand Junction, CO metro area?
As of September 2026, map listings count 1 dry cleaner in the Grand Junction metro area. The listings count dry cleaners. Official counts show 3 businesses with payroll classed as dry cleaning and laundry services in 2023.
How much do households in the Grand Junction, CO metro area spend on clothing, shoes and related services?
About $112.9M a year, or $1,716 per household. That is 17% below the U.S. average (an index of 83, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1 dry cleaner on map listings, it comes to $112.9M per shop. That spending covers all clothing, shoes and related services, which dry cleaners share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 65,830 households in the Grand Junction metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Grand Junction, CO metro area compare with the U.S. for dry cleaners?
The Grand Junction metro area has 1 dry cleaner on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the U.S. ratio of dry cleaners to household spending, the Grand Junction metro area would have about 7, against 1 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 21,943 households, against one for every 8,177 across the U.S.
How fast is the Grand Junction, CO metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Grand Junction metro area at 162,845 people in 2025, up 4.4% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 65,830 households. Median household income in the Grand Junction metro area is $73,658, 9% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 33.0%, 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 Grand Junction metro area has no market score for dry cleaners: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 1.
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