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Hair salons in Jessamine County, KY

How Jessamine County, KY 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 68 out of 100: Upper middle

Ranked #366 of 2,339 scored counties
#7 of 92 scored counties in Kentucky

Listings
35
7 chain locations (20%)
Official establishments
8
Businesses with payroll, 2023
Household spending a year
$17.9M
On personal care products and services · $901 a household
Spending per listing
$513K
19% above the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
17.6
25% below the U.S.
Population, 2025
57,147
+7.8% 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 Jessamine County comes to about $17.9M a year: $901 per household, 10% below the U.S. average. That works out to $513K per salon, 19% above the U.S. figure of $430K. The spending figure covers all personal care products and services, not only hair salons.

Jessamine County has 35 hair salons on map listings as of September 2026. 7 of them (20%) are chain locations, against 14% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 17.6, 25% below the U.S. rate of 23.4.

The official count of businesses with payroll classed as beauty salons in Jessamine County was 8 in 2023. That is one for every 2,489 households, against one for every 1,535 across the U.S. Another 105 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.

Population estimates put the population change in Jessamine County from 2020 to 2025 at +7.8%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). Jessamine County scores 68 (upper middle) on the Groundwork market score for hair salons, ranking #366 of 2,339 scored counties and #7 of 92 scored counties in Kentucky. That puts it in the top quarter of counties.

How Jessamine County compares

The same measures for Kentucky 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 Jessamine County, KY compared with Kentucky and the U.S.
MeasureJessamine CountyKentuckyU.S.
Listings per 10k households17.620.323.4
Spending per listing$513K$410K$430K
Households per official establishment2,4892,6681,535
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023n/a+3.0%+6.0%
Population growth, 2020–2025+7.8%+2.2%+3.1%
Spending per household on personal care products and services$901$833$1,005
Median household income$74,576$63,726$80,734
Groundwork market score6845

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
10 → 8
Employees, 2023
39
Annual payroll, 2023
$1.2M
One-person businesses, 2023
105Businesses with no payroll
Map listings, September 2026
357 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
42The 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 Jessamine 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 Jessamine County

Population, 2025 estimate
57,147+7.8% since 2020
Households
19,913
Median age
38.8
Homes lived in by their owners
67%
Vehicles per household
1.9
Land area
172 sq. mi.
People per square mile
317
Median household income
$74,576+28.0% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$113,909
Median home value
$268,100
Jobs located here
19,582
Daytime population
49,500Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Hair salons across Kentucky

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

Top counties in Kentucky

Counties in Kentucky ranked for hair salons by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1Spencer County, KY7979.6$1.1M+7.7%#85 of 2,339
2Woodford County, KY751614.8$639K+3.7%#156 of 2,339
3Oldham County, KY743414.8$784K+4.9%#167 of 2,339
4Shelby County, KY713619.5$478K+6.2%#270 of 2,339
5Kenton County, KY699614.3$661K+3.9%#311 of 2,339
6Bullitt County, KY694915.4$597K+5.0%#319 of 2,339
7Jessamine County, KY683517.6$513K+7.8%#366 of 2,339
8Scott County, KY674620.3$472K+8.2%#404 of 2,339
9Garrard County, KY66913.4$585K+7.3%#417 of 2,339
10Breckinridge County, KY651012.4$626K+5.2%#442 of 2,339

Other business types in Jessamine County

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

Questions

How many hair salons are in Jessamine County, KY?

Map listings as of September 2026 show 35 hair salons in Jessamine County. 7 of them (20%) are chain locations. The listings count hair and beauty salons. Official counts show 8 businesses with payroll classed as beauty salons in 2023. Official counts list 105 one-person businesses without payroll.

How much do households in Jessamine County, KY spend on personal care products and services?

About $17.9M a year, or $901 per household. That is 10% below the U.S. average (an index of 90, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 35 hair salons on map listings, it comes to $513K 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 19,913 households in Jessamine County and national spending patterns by income.

How does Jessamine County, KY compare with the U.S. for hair salons?

Jessamine County has 17.6 hair salons per 10,000 households, 25% below the U.S. rate of 23.4. Spending per salon is $513K, 19% above the U.S. figure of $430K. At the U.S. ratio of hair salons to household spending, Jessamine County would have about 42, against 35 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 2,489 households, against one for every 1,535 across the U.S.

How fast is Jessamine County, KY growing?

Population estimates put Jessamine County at 57,147 people in 2025, up 7.8% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 19,913 households. Median household income in Jessamine County is $74,576, 8% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 28.0%, 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. Jessamine County scores 68 for hair salons (upper middle), #366 of 2,339 scored counties.

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