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Hair salons in Westmoreland County, PA

How Westmoreland 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 37 out of 100: Lower middle

Ranked #1,770 of 2,339 scored counties
#41 of 64 scored counties in Pennsylvania

Listings
336
58 chain locations (17%)
Official establishments
166
+15.3% since 2019
Household spending a year
$149.7M
On personal care products and services · $966 a household
Spending per listing
$446K
4% above the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
21.7
7% below the U.S.
Population, 2025
349,324
−1.4% 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

For hair salons, Westmoreland County has a Groundwork market score of 37 (lower middle): #1,770 of 2,339 scored counties and #41 of 64 scored counties in Pennsylvania. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.

Household spending on personal care products and services in Westmoreland County comes to about $149.7M a year: $966 per household, 4% below the U.S. average. That works out to $446K per salon, 4% above the U.S. figure of $430K. The spending figure covers all personal care products and services, not only hair salons.

Westmoreland County has 336 hair salons on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 17% of them, against 14% across the U.S. That is 21.7 per 10,000 households, 7% below the U.S. rate of 23.4.

Official counts show 166 businesses with payroll classed as beauty salons in Westmoreland County in 2023, up 15.3% from 2019. That is one for every 934 households, against one for every 1,535 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 4 SBA-backed loans worth $472K have gone to businesses classed as beauty salons in Westmoreland County. Population estimates show Westmoreland County declined 1.4% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S.

How Westmoreland 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 Westmoreland County, PA compared with Pennsylvania and the U.S.
MeasureWestmoreland CountyPennsylvaniaU.S.
Listings per 10k households21.721.723.4
Spending per listing$446K$462K$430K
Households per official establishment9341,0881,535
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023+15.3%+0.8%+6.0%
Population growth, 2020–2025−1.4%+0.5%+3.1%
Spending per household on personal care products and services$966$1,004$1,005
Median household income$74,109$77,971$80,734
Groundwork market score3737

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
144 → 166+15.3% over the period
Employees, 2023
789
Annual payroll, 2023
$18.9M
One-person businesses, 2023
455Businesses with no payroll
Map listings, September 2026
33658 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
348The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here

SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022

Loans
4
Amount
$472K

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

Population, 2025 estimate
349,324−1.4% since 2020
Households
154,979
Median age
47.0
Homes lived in by their owners
78%
Vehicles per household
1.8
Land area
1,028 sq. mi.
People per square mile
343
Median household income
$74,109+22.6% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$97,695
Median home value
$203,500
Jobs located here
134,448
Daytime population
320,126Residents 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 Westmoreland 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
41Westmoreland County, PA3733621.7$446K−1.4%#1,770 of 2,339

Other business types in Westmoreland County

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

Questions

How many hair salons are in Westmoreland County, PA?

Map listings as of September 2026 show 336 hair salons in Westmoreland County. 58 of them (17%) are chain locations. The listings count hair and beauty salons. Official counts show 166 businesses with payroll classed as beauty salons in 2023, up 15.3% from 2019. Official counts also show 455 one-person businesses without payroll.

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

About $149.7M a year, or $966 per household. That is 4% below the U.S. average (an index of 96, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 336 hair salons on map listings, it comes to $446K 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 154,979 households in Westmoreland County and national spending patterns by income.

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

Westmoreland County has 21.7 hair salons per 10,000 households, 7% below the U.S. rate of 23.4. Spending per salon is $446K, 4% above the U.S. figure of $430K. At the U.S. ratio of hair salons to household spending, Westmoreland County would have about 348, against 336 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 934 households, against one for every 1,535 across the U.S. The official count rose 15.3% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.0% for the U.S.

How fast is Westmoreland County, PA growing?

Population estimates put Westmoreland County at 349,324 people in 2025, down 1.4% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 154,979 households. Median household income in Westmoreland County is $74,109, 8% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 22.6%, 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. Westmoreland County scores 37 for hair salons (lower middle), #1,770 of 2,339 scored counties.

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