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Beauty and personal care · Metro area · Oregon

Hair salons in the Grants Pass, OR metro area

How the Grants Pass, OR metro area compares with other metro areas and the U.S. for hair salons: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.

Groundwork market score · out of 100

Score 51 out of 100: Upper middle

Ranked #173 of 387 scored metro areas
#8 of 8 scored metro areas based in Oregon

Listings
79
9 chain locations (11%)
Official establishments
8
Businesses with payroll, 2023
Household spending a year
$33M
On personal care products and services · $898 a household
Spending per listing
$417K
3% below the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
21.5
8% below the U.S.
Population, 2025
87,867
−0.4% 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

As of September 2026, map listings count 79 hair salons in the Grants Pass metro area. Chain locations make up 11% of them, against 14% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 21.5, 8% below the U.S. rate of 23.4.

Households in the Grants Pass metro area spend about $33M a year on personal care products and services, or $898 per household, 11% below the U.S. average. That is about $417K of household spending for each salon on map listings, 3% below 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.

The official count of businesses with payroll classed as beauty salons in the Grants Pass metro area was 8 in 2023. That is one for every 4,589 households, against one for every 1,535 across the U.S. Official counts also show 206 one-person businesses without payroll. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $20K has gone to businesses classed as beauty salons in the Grants Pass metro area.

Population estimates put the population change in the Grants Pass metro area from 2020 to 2025 at −0.4%, against +3.1% for the U.S. The Grants Pass metro area scores 51 (upper middle) on the Groundwork market score for hair salons, ranking #173 of 387 scored metro areas and #8 of 8 scored metro areas based in Oregon.

How the Grants Pass metro area compares

The same measures for Oregon 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 Grants Pass, OR metro area compared with Oregon and the U.S.
MeasureGrants Pass metro areaOregonU.S.
Listings per 10k households21.520.723.4
Spending per listing$417K$501K$430K
Households per official establishment4,5892,1481,535
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023n/a−3.1%+6.0%
Population growth, 2020–2025−0.4%+0.7%+3.1%
Spending per household on personal care products and services$898$1,036$1,005
Median household income$60,098$83,011$80,734
Groundwork market score5166

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
8
Employees, 2023
24
Annual payroll, 2023
$654K
One-person businesses, 2023
206Businesses with no payroll
Map listings, September 2026
799 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
77The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here

SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022

Loans
1
Amount
$20K

SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as beauty salons in the Grants Pass metro area, 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 the Grants Pass metro area

Population, 2025 estimate
87,867−0.4% since 2020
Households
36,715
Median age
47.5
Homes lived in by their owners
72%
Vehicles per household
2.1
Land area
1,639 sq. mi.
People per square mile
54
Median household income
$60,098+31.8% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$85,314
Median home value
$404,300
Jobs located here
30,421
Daytime population
87,114Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Hair salons across Oregon

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The highest-scoring metro areas in Oregon for hair salons, numbered among those based in Oregon, with the Grants Pass metro area marked.

Top metro areas in Oregon

Metro areas in Oregon ranked for hair salons by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1Corvallis, OR815313.8$734K+4.4%#4 of 387
2Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA662,12221.0$535K+1.0%#51 of 387
3Salem, OR6534421.5$464K+2.7%#59 of 387
4Bend, OR6326125.0$432K+7.0%#76 of 387
5Albany, OR6210520.7$454K+3.0%#82 of 387
6Eugene-Springfield, OR5830819.2$489K−0.7%#118 of 387
7Medford, OR5420121.8$439K−0.9%#145 of 387
8Grants Pass, OR517921.5$417K−0.4%#173 of 387

Other business types in the Grants Pass metro area

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

Questions

How many hair salons are in the Grants Pass, OR metro area?

The Grants Pass metro area has 79 hair salons on map listings as of September 2026. 9 of them (11%) are chain locations. The listings count hair and beauty salons. Official counts show 8 businesses with payroll classed as beauty salons in 2023. Another 206 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.

How much do households in the Grants Pass, OR metro area spend on personal care products and services?

About $33M a year, or $898 per household. That is 11% below the U.S. average (an index of 89, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 79 hair salons on map listings, it comes to $417K per salon. The spending figure covers all personal care products and services, not only hair salons. It is estimated from the incomes of the 36,715 households in the Grants Pass metro area and national spending patterns by income.

How does the Grants Pass, OR metro area compare with the U.S. for hair salons?

The Grants Pass metro area has 21.5 hair salons per 10,000 households, 8% below the U.S. rate of 23.4. Spending per salon is $417K, 3% below the U.S. figure of $430K. At the national ratio of hair salons to household spending, the Grants Pass metro area would have about 77, against 79 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 4,589 households, against one for every 1,535 across the U.S.

How fast is the Grants Pass, OR metro area growing?

Population estimates put the Grants Pass metro area at 87,867 people in 2025, down 0.4% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 36,715 households. The median household income in the Grants Pass metro area is $60,098 a year, 26% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 31.8% 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. The Grants Pass metro area scores 51 for hair salons (upper middle), #173 of 387 scored metro areas.

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