Health care · Small-town market · Mississippi
Optometrists and eye clinics in the Cleveland, MS area
How the Cleveland, MS area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for optometrists and eye clinics: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 5 out of 100: Very low
Ranked #399 of 400 scored small-town markets
#13 of 13 scored small-town markets based in Mississippi
- Listings
- 6
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $10.3M
- On medical and dental services · $867 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.7M
- 45% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 5.0
- 22% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 28,262
- −8.3% since 2020
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What this means
For optometrists and eye clinics, the Cleveland area has a Groundwork market score of 5 (very low): #399 of 400 scored small-town markets and #13 of 13 scored small-town markets based in Mississippi. That puts it in the bottom quarter of small-town markets.
Household spending on medical and dental services in the Cleveland area comes to about $10.3M a year: $867 per household, 33% below the U.S. average. That is about $1.7M of household spending for each practice on map listings, 45% below the U.S. figure of $3.1M. The spending figure covers all medical and dental services, not only optometrists and eye clinics.
There are 6 optometrists and eye clinics on map listings in the Cleveland area as of September 2026. None of them are chain locations, against 20% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 5.0, 22% above the U.S. rate of 4.1.
Official counts don’t publish a figure for offices of optometrists in the Cleveland area, since they leave out counts under 3. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Cleveland area declined 8.3%, against +3.1% for the U.S.
How the Cleveland area compares
The same measures for Mississippi and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all medical and dental services by the optometrists and eye clinics 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 | Cleveland area | Mississippi | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 5.0 | 3.9 | 4.1 |
| Spending per listing | $1.7M | $2.6M | $3.1M |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 5,756 | 5,742 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +7.0% | +0.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −8.3% | −0.1% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on medical and dental services | $867 | $992 | $1,288 |
| Median household income | $39,585 | $56,447 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 5 | 16 |
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
- 60 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 3The 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 offices of optometrists in the Cleveland 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 Cleveland area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 28,262−8.3% since 2020
- Households
- 11,915
- Median age
- 39.0
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 63%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.6
- Land area
- 877 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 34
- Median household income
- $39,585+32.6% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $60,985
- Median home value
- $130,000
- Jobs located here
- 10,627
- Daytime population
- 29,215Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Mississippi market ranked →The highest-scoring small-town markets in Mississippi for optometrists and eye clinics, numbered among those based in Mississippi, with the Cleveland area marked.
Top small-town markets in Mississippi
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Picayune, MS | 55 | 9 | 4.1 | $2.4M | +5.6% | #167 of 400 |
| 2McComb, MS | 50 | 5 | 2.5 | $3.6M | −2.6% | #204 of 400 |
| 3Laurel, MS | 50 | 10 | 3.2 | $3M | −1.5% | #206 of 400 |
| 4Starkville, MS | 45 | 9 | 3.5 | $2.8M | +0.8% | #247 of 400 |
| 5Natchez, MS-LA | 44 | 5 | 2.4 | $3.7M | −0.9% | #254 of 400 |
| 6Meridian, MS | 39 | 13 | 3.8 | $2.5M | −3.2% | #297 of 400 |
| 7Greenville, MS | 30 | 6 | 3.5 | $2.5M | −9.4% | #341 of 400 |
| 8Oxford, MS | 30 | 16 | 6.7 | $1.6M | +5.3% | #343 of 400 |
| 9Tupelo, MS | 28 | 24 | 4.6 | $2.2M | +0.8% | #351 of 400 |
| 10Vicksburg, MS | 25 | 7 | 4.2 | $2.5M | −6.3% | #358 of 400 |
| 13Cleveland, MS | 5 | 6 | 5.0 | $1.7M | −8.3% | #399 of 400 |
Other business types in the Cleveland area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Questions
How many optometrists and eye clinics are in the Cleveland, MS area?
As of September 2026, map listings count 6 optometrists and eye clinics in the Cleveland area. None of them are chain locations. The listings count optometrists and eye clinics. No official count is published for offices of optometrists in the Cleveland area: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in the Cleveland, MS area spend on medical and dental services?
About $10.3M a year, or $867 per household. That is 33% below the U.S. average (an index of 67, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 6 optometrists and eye clinics on map listings, it comes to $1.7M per practice. That spending covers all medical and dental services, which optometrists and eye clinics share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 11,915 households in the Cleveland area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Cleveland, MS area compare with the U.S. for optometrists and eye clinics?
The Cleveland area has 5.0 optometrists and eye clinics per 10,000 households, 22% above the U.S. rate of 4.1. Spending per practice is $1.7M, 45% below the U.S. figure of $3.1M. At the U.S. ratio of optometrists and eye clinics to household spending, the Cleveland area would have about 3, against 6 on map listings.
How fast is the Cleveland, MS area growing?
Population estimates put the Cleveland area at 28,262 people in 2025, down 8.3% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 11,915 households. Median household income in the Cleveland area is $39,585, 51% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 32.6%, 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 Cleveland area scores 5 for optometrists and eye clinics (very low), #399 of 400 scored small-town markets.
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