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Clothing and laundry · Small-town market · Texas

Dry cleaners in the Fredericksburg, TX area

How the Fredericksburg, TX area compares with other small-town markets 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 2.

Listings
2
1 chain location (50%)
Official establishments
4
Businesses with payroll, 2023
Household spending a year
$23.3M
On clothing, shoes and related services · $2,022 a household
Spending per listing
$11.6M
Too few listings to compare
Listings per 10k households
1.7
Too few listings to compare
Population, 2025
28,527
+6.6% 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

Households in the Fredericksburg area spend about $23.3M a year on clothing, shoes and related services, or $2,022 per household, 2% below the U.S. average. Spread across 2 dry cleaners, that is $11.6M per shop. The spending figure covers all clothing, shoes and related services, not only dry cleaners.

There are 2 dry cleaners on map listings in the Fredericksburg area as of September 2026. That is 1.7 per 10,000 households.

Official counts show 4 businesses with payroll classed as dry cleaning and laundry services in the Fredericksburg area in 2023. That is one for every 2,878 households, against one for every 8,177 across the U.S.

Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Fredericksburg area grew 6.6%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). With 2 dry cleaners on map listings, the Fredericksburg area isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.

How the Fredericksburg area compares

The same measures for Texas 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.

Dry cleaners in Fredericksburg, TX area compared with Texas and the U.S.
MeasureFredericksburg areaTexasU.S.
Listings per 10k households1.71.81.3
Spending per listing$11.6M$11.1M$15.7M
Households per official establishment2,8787,4038,177
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023n/a−15.8%−18.7%
Population growth, 2020–2025+6.6%+8.5%+3.1%
Spending per household on clothing, shoes and related services$2,022$1,983$2,055
Median household income$76,162$78,476$80,734
Groundwork market scoreNot scored35

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
4
Employees, 2023
13
Annual payroll, 2023
$307K
One-person businesses, 2023
Not publishedNot published for this business type
Map listings, September 2026
21 chain location
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
2The 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 dry cleaning and laundry services in the Fredericksburg 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 Fredericksburg area

Population, 2025 estimate
28,527+6.6% since 2020
Households
11,513
Median age
49.6
Homes lived in by their owners
75%
Vehicles per household
2.0
Land area
1,058 sq. mi.
People per square mile
26
Median household income
$76,162+28.8% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$116,131
Median home value
$460,700
Jobs located here
11,821
Daytime population
27,066Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Other business types in the Fredericksburg area

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Questions

How many dry cleaners are in the Fredericksburg, TX area?

As of September 2026, map listings count 2 dry cleaners in the Fredericksburg area. The listings count dry cleaners. Official counts show 4 businesses with payroll classed as dry cleaning and laundry services in 2023.

How much do households in the Fredericksburg, TX area spend on clothing, shoes and related services?

About $23.3M a year, or $2,022 per household. That is 2% below the U.S. average (an index of 98, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 2 dry cleaners on map listings, it comes to $11.6M 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 11,513 households in the Fredericksburg area and national spending patterns by income.

How does the Fredericksburg, TX area compare with the U.S. for dry cleaners?

The Fredericksburg area has 2 dry cleaners 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 dry cleaners to household spending. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 2,878 households, against one for every 8,177 across the U.S.

How fast is the Fredericksburg, TX area growing?

Population estimates put the Fredericksburg area at 28,527 people in 2025, up 6.6% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 11,513 households. Median household income in the Fredericksburg area is $76,162, 6% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 28.8%, 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. A small-town market is a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people and the county or counties tied to it by commuting. 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 Fredericksburg area has no market score for dry cleaners: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 2.

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