Beauty and personal care · Small-town market · Indiana
Hair salons in the New Castle, IN area
How the New Castle, IN area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for hair salons: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 58 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #176 of 538 scored small-town markets
#15 of 25 scored small-town markets based in Indiana
- Listings
- 37
- 12 chain locations (32%)
- Official establishments
- 6
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $16.5M
- On personal care products and services · $886 a household
- Spending per listing
- $446K
- 4% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 19.8
- 15% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 49,137
- +0.5% since 2020
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 37 hair salons in the New Castle area. Of those, 12 are chain locations, or 32%, against 14% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 19.8, 15% below the U.S. rate of 23.4.
Household spending on personal care products and services in the New Castle area comes to about $16.5M a year: $886 per household, 12% below the U.S. average. That is about $446K of household spending for each salon on map listings, 4% above the U.S. figure of $430K. That spending covers all personal care products and services, which hair salons share with other businesses in the trade.
In 2023, official counts showed 6 businesses with payroll in the New Castle area classed as beauty salons. That is one for every 3,107 households, against one for every 1,535 across the U.S. Another 108 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts. Since fiscal 2022, 2 SBA-backed loans worth $164K have gone to businesses classed as beauty salons in the New Castle area.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the New Castle area grew 0.5%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). The Groundwork market score for hair salons in the New Castle area is 58 (upper middle), #176 of 538 scored small-town markets and #15 of 25 scored small-town markets based in Indiana.
How the New Castle area compares
The same measures for Indiana 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.
| Measure | New Castle area | Indiana | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 19.8 | 21.1 | 23.4 |
| Spending per listing | $446K | $460K | $430K |
| Households per official establishment | 3,107 | 1,889 | 1,535 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +6.1% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +0.5% | +2.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on personal care products and services | $886 | $971 | $1,005 |
| Median household income | $63,150 | $71,957 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 58 | 51 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 6
- Employees, 2023
- 29
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $619K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 108Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 3712 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 38The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 2
- Amount
- $164K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as beauty salons in the New Castle 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 New Castle area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 49,137+0.5% since 2020
- Households
- 18,642
- Median age
- 42.6
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 76%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 392 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 125
- Median household income
- $63,150+26.7% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $80,133
- Median home value
- $154,400
- Jobs located here
- 12,829
- Daytime population
- 43,751Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Indiana market ranked →The highest-scoring small-town markets in Indiana for hair salons, numbered among those based in Indiana, with the New Castle area marked.
Top small-town markets in Indiana
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Auburn, IN | 84 | 27 | 15.8 | $602K | +2.9% | #4 of 538 |
| 2Seymour, IN | 81 | 32 | 17.6 | $534K | +1.9% | #9 of 538 |
| 3Kendallville, IN | 75 | 27 | 14.9 | $634K | +1.0% | #27 of 538 |
| 4Greensburg, IN | 75 | 19 | 17.7 | $544K | +0.4% | #29 of 538 |
| 5Jasper, IN | 73 | 36 | 20.5 | $486K | +0.9% | #40 of 538 |
| 6Frankfort, IN | 68 | 24 | 19.2 | $476K | +0.4% | #72 of 538 |
| 7Greencastle, IN | 68 | 30 | 21.2 | $454K | +3.2% | #74 of 538 |
| 8Bedford, IN | 65 | 35 | 18.3 | $496K | +1.2% | #93 of 538 |
| 9Richmond, IN | 63 | 49 | 18.2 | $471K | −0.5% | #121 of 538 |
| 10Marion, IN | 61 | 50 | 18.7 | $445K | 0.0% | #145 of 538 |
| 15New Castle, IN | 58 | 37 | 19.8 | $446K | +0.5% | #176 of 538 |
Other business types in the New Castle 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
- Salons, barbers and spas54
- Hair salons58
- Barbershops37
- Nail salons55
- Spas and skin care59
Fitness and classes
Health care
Child care
Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many hair salons are in the New Castle, IN area?
The New Castle area has 37 hair salons on map listings as of September 2026. 12 of them (32%) are chain locations. The listings count hair and beauty salons. Official counts show 6 businesses with payroll classed as beauty salons in 2023. Official counts list 108 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in the New Castle, IN area spend on personal care products and services?
About $16.5M a year, or $886 per household. That is 12% below the U.S. average (an index of 88, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 37 hair salons on map listings, it comes to $446K per salon. The spending figure covers all personal care products and services, not only hair salons. It is estimated from the incomes of the 18,642 households in the New Castle area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the New Castle, IN area compare with the U.S. for hair salons?
The New Castle area has 19.8 hair salons per 10,000 households, 15% below the U.S. rate of 23.4. Spending per salon is $446K, 4% above the U.S. figure of $430K. At the national ratio of hair salons to household spending, the New Castle area would have about 38, against 37 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 3,107 households, against one for every 1,535 across the U.S.
How fast is the New Castle, IN area growing?
Population estimates put the New Castle area at 49,137 people in 2025, up 0.5% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 18,642 households. The median household income in the New Castle area is $63,150 a year, 22% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 26.7% from the 2015–2019 survey, 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 New Castle area scores 58 for hair salons (upper middle), #176 of 538 scored small-town markets.
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