Beauty and personal care · County · Louisiana
Hair salons in Orleans Parish, LA
How Orleans Parish, LA 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 28 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #2,076 of 2,339 scored counties
#43 of 54 scored counties in Louisiana
- Listings
- 379
- 28 chain locations (7%)
- Official establishments
- 66
- −1.5% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $128.4M
- On personal care products and services · $824 a household
- Spending per listing
- $339K
- 21% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 24.3
- 4% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 362,154
- −5.5% since 2020
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What this means
For hair salons, Orleans Parish has a Groundwork market score of 28 (lower middle): #2,076 of 2,339 scored counties and #43 of 54 scored counties in Louisiana. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Household spending on personal care products and services in Orleans Parish comes to about $128.4M a year: $824 per household, 18% below the U.S. average. That works out to $339K per salon, 21% below the U.S. figure of $430K. The spending figure covers all personal care products and services, not only hair salons.
Orleans Parish has 379 hair salons on map listings as of September 2026. 28 of them (7%) are chain locations, against 14% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 24.3, 4% above the U.S. rate of 23.4.
Official counts show 66 businesses with payroll classed as beauty salons in Orleans Parish in 2023, down 1.5% from 2019. That is one for every 2,361 households, against one for every 1,535 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 6 SBA-backed loans worth $860K have gone to businesses classed as beauty salons in Orleans Parish. Population estimates put the population change in Orleans Parish from 2020 to 2025 at −5.5%, against +3.1% for the U.S.
How Orleans Parish compares
The same measures for Louisiana 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 | Orleans Parish | Louisiana | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 24.3 | 24.4 | 23.4 |
| Spending per listing | $339K | $339K | $430K |
| Households per official establishment | 2,361 | 2,582 | 1,535 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | −1.5% | +6.2% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −5.5% | −0.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on personal care products and services | $824 | $826 | $1,005 |
| Median household income | $56,631 | $60,756 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 28 | 25 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 67 → 66−1.5% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 281
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $10.4M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 2,164Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 37928 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 298The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 6
- Amount
- $860K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as beauty salons in Orleans Parish, 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 Orleans Parish
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 362,154−5.5% since 2020
- Households
- 155,821
- Median age
- 39.4
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 51%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.3
- Land area
- 170 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 2,193
- Median household income
- $56,631+36.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $91,726
- Median home value
- $315,700
- Jobs located here
- 192,799
- Daytime population
- 412,758Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Louisiana market ranked →The highest-scoring counties in Louisiana for hair salons, numbered among those based in Louisiana, with Orleans Parish marked.
Top counties in Louisiana
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Ascension Parish, LA | 70 | 103 | 21.6 | $463K | +6.4% | #299 of 2,339 |
| 2Livingston Parish, LA | 65 | 100 | 18.7 | $478K | +8.5% | #462 of 2,339 |
| 3Plaquemines Parish, LA | 64 | 7 | 8.5 | $1.1M | −5.3% | #469 of 2,339 |
| 4West Baton Rouge Parish, LA | 63 | 24 | 21.9 | $419K | +5.5% | #562 of 2,339 |
| 5Grant Parish, LA | 61 | 7 | 9.4 | $872K | −0.3% | #617 of 2,339 |
| 6West Feliciana Parish, LA | 61 | 6 | 14.9 | $614K | −0.7% | #625 of 2,339 |
| 7East Feliciana Parish, LA | 60 | 7 | 10.9 | $809K | −2.8% | #663 of 2,339 |
| 8St. James Parish, LA | 56 | 9 | 11.9 | $739K | −5.9% | #848 of 2,339 |
| 9St. Charles Parish, LA | 56 | 35 | 18.8 | $499K | −3.7% | #873 of 2,339 |
| 10St. Martin Parish, LA | 52 | 24 | 12.3 | $642K | −1.0% | #1,041 of 2,339 |
| 43Orleans Parish, LA | 28 | 379 | 24.3 | $339K | −5.5% | #2,076 of 2,339 |
Other business types in Orleans Parish
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 spas17
- Hair salons28
- Barbershops20
- Nail salons16
- Spas and skin care27
Fitness and classes
Health care
Child care
Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many hair salons are in Orleans Parish, LA?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 379 hair salons in Orleans Parish. 28 of them (7%) are chain locations. The listings count hair and beauty salons. Official counts show 66 businesses with payroll classed as beauty salons in 2023, down 1.5% from 2019. Another 2,164 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.
How much do households in Orleans Parish, LA spend on personal care products and services?
About $128.4M a year, or $824 per household. That is 18% below the U.S. average (an index of 82, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 379 hair salons on map listings, it comes to $339K 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 155,821 households in Orleans Parish and national spending patterns by income.
How does Orleans Parish, LA compare with the U.S. for hair salons?
Orleans Parish has 24.3 hair salons per 10,000 households, 4% above the U.S. rate of 23.4. Spending per salon is $339K, 21% below the U.S. figure of $430K. At the U.S. ratio of hair salons to household spending, Orleans Parish would have about 298, against 379 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 2,361 households, against one for every 1,535 across the U.S. The official count fell 1.5% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.0% for the U.S.
How fast is Orleans Parish, LA growing?
Population estimates put Orleans Parish at 362,154 people in 2025, down 5.5% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 155,821 households. Median household income in Orleans Parish is $56,631, 30% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 36.1%, 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. Orleans Parish scores 28 for hair salons (lower middle), #2,076 of 2,339 scored counties.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
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