Beauty and personal care · County · North Dakota
Hair salons in Benson County, ND
How Benson County, ND compares with other counties and the U.S. for hair salons: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
- Listings
- 1
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $1.8M
- On personal care products and services · $875 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.8M
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 4.9
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 5,759
- −3.0% since 2020
See the hair salons around any address in Benson County
The site report maps the hair salons on map listings near the address, by name and distance, and sizes the households and spending around it. Or open the report at the center of Benson County. Signed out, you see a blurred preview; on an account, each report is one action.
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What this means
Household spending on personal care products and services in Benson County comes to about $1.8M a year: $875 per household, 13% below the U.S. average. That is about $1.8M of household spending for each salon on map listings. The spending figure covers all personal care products and services, not only hair salons.
There is 1 hair salon on map listings in Benson County as of September 2026. That is 4.9 per 10,000 households.
Official counts don’t publish a figure for beauty salons in Benson County, since they leave out counts under 3. Official counts also show 4 one-person businesses without payroll.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Benson County declined 3.0%, against +3.1% for the U.S. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t given a market score, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
How Benson County compares
The same measures for North Dakota 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 | Benson County | North Dakota | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 4.9 | 23.8 | 23.4 |
| Spending per listing | $1.8M | $421K | $430K |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 1,379 | 1,535 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +2.6% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −3.0% | +2.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on personal care products and services | $875 | $1,002 | $1,005 |
| Median household income | $64,033 | $76,657 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 37 |
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
- 4Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 10 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 4The 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 Benson 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 Benson County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 5,759−3.0% since 2020
- Households
- 2,025
- Median age
- 32.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 73%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.3
- Land area
- 1,389 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 4
- Median household income
- $64,033
- Average household income
- $81,345
- Median home value
- $90,000
- Jobs located here
- 1,918
- Daytime population
- 5,784Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
Looking at a specific site in Benson County?
These figures cover the whole county. A site report draws rings around one address and counts what’s inside them: households, spending, jobs, and the hair salons on map listings by name and distance.
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Every North Dakota market ranked →The highest-scoring counties in North Dakota for hair salons, numbered among those based in North Dakota, with Benson County marked.
Top counties in North Dakota
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1McKenzie County, ND | 76 | 9 | 15.0 | $772K | +2.8% | #131 of 2,339 |
| 2Williams County, ND | 63 | 28 | 18.5 | $584K | +1.4% | #528 of 2,339 |
| 3Richland County, ND | 62 | 14 | 20.4 | $486K | +1.2% | #598 of 2,339 |
| 4Morton County, ND | 56 | 32 | 22.9 | $442K | +3.8% | #890 of 2,339 |
| 5Barnes County, ND | 55 | 8 | 16.3 | $567K | −2.7% | #902 of 2,339 |
| 6Grand Forks County, ND | 54 | 71 | 22.7 | $420K | +1.9% | #978 of 2,339 |
| 7Walsh County, ND | 50 | 6 | 13.6 | $698K | −3.3% | #1,148 of 2,339 |
| 8Ramsey County, ND | 45 | 9 | 16.6 | $547K | −0.4% | #1,413 of 2,339 |
| 9Ward County, ND | 45 | 67 | 23.5 | $433K | −2.4% | #1,427 of 2,339 |
| 10Burleigh County, ND | 45 | 117 | 28.4 | $376K | +4.7% | #1,443 of 2,339 |
| Benson County, ND | Not scored | 1 | 4.9 | $1.8M | −3.0% |
Other business types in Benson County
None has a Groundwork market score here. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
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 Benson County, ND?
As of September 2026, map listings count 1 hair salon in Benson County. The listings count hair and beauty salons. No official count is published for beauty salons in Benson County: counts under 3 are left out. Official counts list 4 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Benson County, ND spend on personal care products and services?
About $1.8M a year, or $875 per household. That is 13% below the U.S. average (an index of 87, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1 hair salon on map listings, it comes to $1.8M 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 2,025 households in Benson County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Benson County, ND compare with the U.S. for hair salons?
Benson County has 1 hair salon on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the U.S. ratio of hair salons to household spending, Benson County would have about 4, against 1 on map listings.
How fast is Benson County, ND growing?
Population estimates put Benson County at 5,759 people in 2025, down 3.0% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 2,025 households. Median household income in Benson County is $64,033, 21% below the U.S. median of $80,734.
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. The score leaves out counties under 10,000 people, where a handful of businesses would swing it.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
Run a Groundwork site report on an address in Benson County. It maps the hair salons on map listings near the site and sizes the households and spending within the distance you choose. New accounts get 10 actions over 3 days, no card.
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