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Hair salons in Cook County, GA

How Cook County, GA compares with other counties and the U.S. for hair salons: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.

Groundwork market score · out of 100

Score 62 out of 100: Upper middle

Ranked #584 of 2,339 scored counties
#24 of 119 scored counties in Georgia

Listings
9
2 chain locations (22%)
Official establishments
n/a
Fewer than 3, or not published
Household spending a year
$4.9M
On personal care products and services · $782 a household
Spending per listing
$548K
27% above the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
14.3
39% below the U.S.
Population, 2025
18,232
+5.8% 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 personal care products and services in Cook County comes to about $4.9M a year: $782 per household, 22% below the U.S. average. Spread across 9 hair salons, that is $548K per salon, 27% above the U.S. figure of $430K. The spending figure covers all personal care products and services, not only hair salons.

Cook County has 9 hair salons on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 22% of them, against 14% across the U.S. That is 14.3 per 10,000 households, 39% below the U.S. rate of 23.4.

Official counts don’t publish a figure for beauty salons in Cook County, since they leave out counts under 3. Official counts also show 71 one-person businesses without payroll.

Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Cook County grew 5.8%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). For hair salons, Cook County has a Groundwork market score of 62 (upper middle): #584 of 2,339 scored counties and #24 of 119 scored counties in Georgia. That puts it in the top quarter of counties.

How Cook County compares

The same measures for Georgia and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all personal care products and services by the hair salons counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.

Hair salons in Cook County, GA compared with Georgia and the U.S.
MeasureCook CountyGeorgiaU.S.
Listings per 10k households14.329.523.4
Spending per listing$548K$314K$430K
Households per official establishmentn/a1,5901,535
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023n/a+13.6%+6.0%
Population growth, 2020–2025+5.8%+5.3%+3.1%
Spending per household on personal care products and services$782$926$1,005
Median household income$53,651$77,353$80,734
Groundwork market score6231

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
71Businesses with no payroll
Map listings, September 2026
92 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
12The 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 beauty salons in Cook 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 Cook County

Population, 2025 estimate
18,232+5.8% since 2020
Households
6,304
Median age
39.1
Homes lived in by their owners
66%
Vehicles per household
2.1
Land area
229 sq. mi.
People per square mile
77
Median household income
$53,651+28.2% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$75,581
Median home value
$157,500
Jobs located here
4,560
Daytime population
15,217Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Hair salons across Georgia

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The highest-scoring counties in Georgia for hair salons, numbered among those based in Georgia, with Cook County marked.

Top counties in Georgia

Counties in Georgia ranked for hair salons by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1Harris County, GA92129.2$1.1M+6.8%#4 of 2,339
2Monroe County, GA841615.2$632K+14.1%#45 of 2,339
3Greene County, GA821315.9$623K+12.3%#63 of 2,339
4Effingham County, GA804518.5$521K+14.1%#83 of 2,339
5Long County, GA7858.1$973K+32.6%#95 of 2,339
6Jasper County, GA78711.7$714K+20.2%#100 of 2,339
7Lee County, GA781814.6$640K+2.9%#104 of 2,339
8Madison County, GA77108.9$909K+8.8%#111 of 2,339
9Paulding County, GA7610517.5$578K+12.7%#144 of 2,339
10Newton County, GA766916.7$528K+11.2%#148 of 2,339
24Cook County, GA62914.3$548K+5.8%#584 of 2,339

Other business types in Cook County

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

Questions

How many hair salons are in Cook County, GA?

Map listings as of September 2026 show 9 hair salons in Cook County. 2 of them (22%) are chain locations. The listings count hair and beauty salons. No official count is published for beauty salons in Cook County: counts under 3 are left out. Official counts list 71 one-person businesses without payroll.

How much do households in Cook County, GA spend on personal care products and services?

About $4.9M a year, or $782 per household. That is 22% below the U.S. average (an index of 78, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 9 hair salons on map listings, it comes to $548K per salon. That spending covers all personal care products and services, which hair salons share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 6,304 households in Cook County and national spending patterns by income.

How does Cook County, GA compare with the U.S. for hair salons?

Cook County has 14.3 hair salons per 10,000 households, 39% below the U.S. rate of 23.4. Spending per salon is $548K, 27% above the U.S. figure of $430K. At the U.S. ratio of hair salons to household spending, Cook County would have about 12, against 9 on map listings.

How fast is Cook County, GA growing?

Population estimates put Cook County at 18,232 people in 2025, up 5.8% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 6,304 households. Median household income in Cook County is $53,651, 34% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 28.2%, 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. Cook County scores 62 for hair salons (upper middle), #584 of 2,339 scored counties.

How can I see the market around a specific site?

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