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Hair salons in Beaver County, PA

How Beaver County, PA 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 51 out of 100: Upper middle

Ranked #1,105 of 2,339 scored counties
#17 of 64 scored counties in Pennsylvania

Listings
121
27 chain locations (22%)
Official establishments
51
0.0% since 2019
Household spending a year
$68.3M
On personal care products and services · $945 a household
Spending per listing
$564K
31% above the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
16.7
29% below the U.S.
Population, 2025
166,032
−1.1% 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 121 hair salons in Beaver County. Of those, 27 are chain locations, or 22%, against 14% across the U.S. That is 16.7 per 10,000 households, 29% below the U.S. rate of 23.4.

Household spending on personal care products and services in Beaver County comes to about $68.3M a year: $945 per household, 6% below the U.S. average. That is about $564K of household spending for each salon on map listings, 31% 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.

In 2023, official counts showed 51 businesses with payroll in Beaver County classed as beauty salons, unchanged from 2019. That is one for every 1,417 households, against one for every 1,535 across the U.S. Another 227 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts. Since fiscal 2022, 5 SBA-backed loans worth $928K have gone to businesses classed as beauty salons in Beaver County.

Population estimates show Beaver County declined 1.1% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S. Beaver County scores 51 (upper middle) on the Groundwork market score for hair salons, ranking #1,105 of 2,339 scored counties and #17 of 64 scored counties in Pennsylvania.

How Beaver County compares

The same measures for Pennsylvania 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 Beaver County, PA compared with Pennsylvania and the U.S.
MeasureBeaver CountyPennsylvaniaU.S.
Listings per 10k households16.721.723.4
Spending per listing$564K$462K$430K
Households per official establishment1,4171,0881,535
Official establishment growth, 2019–20230.0%+0.8%+6.0%
Population growth, 2020–2025−1.1%+0.5%+3.1%
Spending per household on personal care products and services$945$1,004$1,005
Median household income$71,089$77,971$80,734
Groundwork market score5137

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
51 → 510.0% over the period
Employees, 2023
260
Annual payroll, 2023
$5.2M
One-person businesses, 2023
227Businesses with no payroll
Map listings, September 2026
12127 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
159The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here

SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022

Loans
5
Amount
$928K

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

Population, 2025 estimate
166,032−1.1% since 2020
Households
72,257
Median age
45.2
Homes lived in by their owners
75%
Vehicles per household
1.8
Land area
435 sq. mi.
People per square mile
383
Median household income
$71,089+23.0% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$91,466
Median home value
$190,900
Jobs located here
50,483
Daytime population
141,776Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Hair salons across Pennsylvania

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

Top counties in Pennsylvania

Counties in Pennsylvania ranked for hair salons by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1Perry County, PA743016.4$599K+2.1%#180 of 2,339
2Pike County, PA723112.8$791K+7.2%#226 of 2,339
3Adams County, PA697017.1$592K+3.6%#322 of 2,339
4Chester County, PA6740419.7$652K+4.2%#385 of 2,339
5Susquehanna County, PA632516.1$578K−0.3%#529 of 2,339
6York County, PA6035819.7$518K+3.6%#677 of 2,339
7Carbon County, PA584014.7$620K+1.7%#763 of 2,339
8Fulton County, PA571015.8$570K−0.6%#804 of 2,339
9Butler County, PA5517621.8$488K+3.2%#913 of 2,339
10Delaware County, PA5445020.7$528K+0.8%#948 of 2,339
17Beaver County, PA5112116.7$564K−1.1%#1,105 of 2,339

Other business types in Beaver County

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

Questions

How many hair salons are in Beaver County, PA?

Beaver County has 121 hair salons on map listings as of September 2026. 27 of them (22%) are chain locations. The listings count hair and beauty salons. Official counts show 51 businesses with payroll classed as beauty salons in 2023, unchanged from 2019. Official counts list 227 one-person businesses without payroll.

How much do households in Beaver County, PA spend on personal care products and services?

About $68.3M a year, or $945 per household. That is 6% below the U.S. average (an index of 94, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 121 hair salons on map listings, it comes to $564K per salon. The spending figure covers all personal care products and services, not only hair salons. It is estimated from the incomes of the 72,257 households in Beaver County and national spending patterns by income.

How does Beaver County, PA compare with the U.S. for hair salons?

Beaver County has 16.7 hair salons per 10,000 households, 29% below the U.S. rate of 23.4. Spending per salon is $564K, 31% above the U.S. figure of $430K. At the national ratio of hair salons to household spending, Beaver County would have about 159, against 121 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,417 households, against one for every 1,535 across the U.S. The official count held level from 2019 to 2023, against +6.0% for the U.S.

How fast is Beaver County, PA growing?

Population estimates put Beaver County at 166,032 people in 2025, down 1.1% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 72,257 households. The median household income in Beaver County is $71,089 a year, 12% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 23.0% 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. Beaver County scores 51 for hair salons (upper middle), #1,105 of 2,339 scored counties.

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