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Hair salons in Beltrami County, MN

How Beltrami County, MN 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 64 out of 100: Upper middle

Ranked #495 of 2,339 scored counties
#32 of 66 scored counties in Minnesota

Listings
32
13 chain locations (41%)
Official establishments
8
Businesses with payroll, 2023
Household spending a year
$17.2M
On personal care products and services · $947 a household
Spending per listing
$538K
25% above the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
17.6
25% below the U.S.
Population, 2025
47,055
+1.8% 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 Beltrami County comes to about $17.2M a year: $947 per household, 6% below the U.S. average. That is about $538K of household spending for each salon on map listings, 25% above the U.S. figure of $430K. The spending figure covers all personal care products and services, not only hair salons.

Beltrami County has 32 hair salons on map listings as of September 2026. 13 of them (41%) 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.

Official counts show 8 businesses with payroll classed as beauty salons in Beltrami County in 2023. That is one for every 2,272 households, against one for every 1,535 across the U.S. Official counts also show 73 one-person businesses without payroll. Since fiscal 2022, 2 SBA-backed loans worth $695K have gone to businesses classed as beauty salons in Beltrami County.

Population estimates show Beltrami County grew 1.8% from 2020 to 2025, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). For hair salons, Beltrami County has a Groundwork market score of 64 (upper middle): #495 of 2,339 scored counties and #32 of 66 scored counties in Minnesota. That puts it in the top quarter of counties.

How Beltrami County compares

The same measures for Minnesota 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 Beltrami County, MN compared with Minnesota and the U.S.
MeasureBeltrami CountyMinnesotaU.S.
Listings per 10k households17.619.423.4
Spending per listing$538K$564K$430K
Households per official establishment2,2721,5171,535
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023n/a−4.2%+6.0%
Population growth, 2020–2025+1.8%+2.1%+3.1%
Spending per household on personal care products and services$947$1,091$1,005
Median household income$68,975$89,062$80,734
Groundwork market score6467

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
12 → 8
Employees, 2023
22
Annual payroll, 2023
$730K
One-person businesses, 2023
73Businesses with no payroll
Map listings, September 2026
3213 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
40The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here

SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022

Loans
2
Amount
$695K

SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as beauty salons in Beltrami 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 Beltrami County

Population, 2025 estimate
47,055+1.8% since 2020
Households
18,172
Median age
37.0
Homes lived in by their owners
70%
Vehicles per household
2.0
Land area
2,505 sq. mi.
People per square mile
19
Median household income
$68,975+40.3% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$89,694
Median home value
$237,500
Jobs located here
21,323
Daytime population
47,553Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Hair salons across Minnesota

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

Top counties in Minnesota

Counties in Minnesota ranked for hair salons by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1Le Sueur County, MN861412.0$899K+2.9%#31 of 2,339
2Cass County, MN821511.7$813K+4.2%#61 of 2,339
3Kanabec County, MN80812.2$778K+3.6%#74 of 2,339
4Scott County, MN785810.6$1.2M+5.1%#94 of 2,339
5Watonwan County, MN78511.8$816K+2.0%#97 of 2,339
6Todd County, MN771211.8$780K+3.0%#115 of 2,339
7Nicollet County, MN761713.1$796K−0.7%#129 of 2,339
8Wright County, MN769517.6$666K+11.1%#138 of 2,339
9Sibley County, MN751118.6$543K+3.6%#162 of 2,339
10Anoka County, MN7420514.9$767K+4.7%#168 of 2,339
32Beltrami County, MN643217.6$538K+1.8%#495 of 2,339

Other business types in Beltrami County

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

Questions

How many hair salons are in Beltrami County, MN?

Map listings as of September 2026 show 32 hair salons in Beltrami County. 13 of them (41%) are chain locations. The listings count hair and beauty salons. Official counts show 8 businesses with payroll classed as beauty salons in 2023. Another 73 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.

How much do households in Beltrami County, MN spend on personal care products and services?

About $17.2M a year, or $947 per household. That is 6% below the U.S. average (an index of 94, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 32 hair salons on map listings, it comes to $538K 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 18,172 households in Beltrami County and national spending patterns by income.

How does Beltrami County, MN compare with the U.S. for hair salons?

Beltrami County has 17.6 hair salons per 10,000 households, 25% below the U.S. rate of 23.4. Spending per salon is $538K, 25% above the U.S. figure of $430K. At the U.S. ratio of hair salons to household spending, Beltrami County would have about 40, against 32 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 2,272 households, against one for every 1,535 across the U.S.

How fast is Beltrami County, MN growing?

Population estimates put Beltrami County at 47,055 people in 2025, up 1.8% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 18,172 households. Median household income in Beltrami County is $68,975, 15% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 40.3%, 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. Beltrami County scores 64 for hair salons (upper middle), #495 of 2,339 scored counties.

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