Beauty and personal care · County · Louisiana
Hair salons in Union Parish, LA
How Union 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 29 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #2,038 of 2,339 scored counties
#39 of 54 scored counties in Louisiana
- Listings
- 13
- 1 chain location (8%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $6M
- On personal care products and services · $702 a household
- Spending per listing
- $460K
- 7% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 15.3
- 35% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 20,561
- −2.5% since 2020
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What this means
For hair salons, Union Parish has a Groundwork market score of 29 (lower middle): #2,038 of 2,339 scored counties and #39 of 54 scored counties in Louisiana. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Map listings as of September 2026 show 13 hair salons in Union Parish. One of them (8%) is a chain location, against 14% across the U.S. That comes to 15.3 for every 10,000 households, 35% below the U.S. rate of 23.4.
Households in Union Parish spend about $6M a year on personal care products and services, or $702 per household, 30% below the U.S. average. That is about $460K of household spending for each salon on map listings, 7% 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.
There is no official count of businesses with payroll classed as beauty salons in Union Parish: counts under 3 aren’t published. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Union Parish declined 2.5%, against +3.1% for the U.S.
How Union 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 | Union Parish | Louisiana | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 15.3 | 24.4 | 23.4 |
| Spending per listing | $460K | $339K | $430K |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 2,582 | 1,535 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +6.2% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −2.5% | −0.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on personal care products and services | $702 | $826 | $1,005 |
| Median household income | $42,885 | $60,756 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 29 | 25 |
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
- 86Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 131 chain location
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 14The 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 Union 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 Union Parish
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 20,561−2.5% since 2020
- Households
- 8,508
- Median age
- 43.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 78%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.8
- Land area
- 877 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 24
- Median household income
- $42,885−2.8% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $64,327
- Median home value
- $112,500
- Jobs located here
- 4,997
- Daytime population
- 17,220Residents 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 Union 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 |
| 39Union Parish, LA | 29 | 13 | 15.3 | $460K | −2.5% | #2,038 of 2,339 |
Other business types in Union 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
Fitness and classes
Health care
Child care
Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many hair salons are in Union Parish, LA?
There are 13 hair salons on map listings in Union Parish as of September 2026. One of them (8%) is a chain location. The listings count hair and beauty salons. No official count is published for beauty salons in Union Parish: counts under 3 are left out. Official counts also show 86 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Union Parish, LA spend on personal care products and services?
About $6M a year, or $702 per household. That is 30% below the U.S. average (an index of 70, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 13 hair salons on map listings, it comes to $460K per salon. The spending figure covers all personal care products and services, not only hair salons. It is estimated from the incomes of the 8,508 households in Union Parish and national spending patterns by income.
How does Union Parish, LA compare with the U.S. for hair salons?
Union Parish has 15.3 hair salons per 10,000 households, 35% below the U.S. rate of 23.4. Spending per salon is $460K, 7% above the U.S. figure of $430K. At the national ratio of hair salons to household spending, Union Parish would have about 14, against 13 on map listings.
How fast is Union Parish, LA growing?
Population estimates put Union Parish at 20,561 people in 2025, down 2.5% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 8,508 households. The median household income in Union Parish is $42,885 a year, 47% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That fell 2.8% 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. 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. Union Parish scores 29 for hair salons (lower middle), #2,038 of 2,339 scored counties.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
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