Beauty and personal care · County · South Dakota
Hair salons in Butte County, SD
The hair salons in Butte County, SD, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other counties.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 80 out of 100: High
Ranked #79 of 2,339 scored counties
#2 of 16 scored counties in South Dakota
- Listings
- 7
- 1 chain location (14%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $4.2M
- On personal care products and services · $977 a household
- Spending per listing
- $601K
- 40% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 16.3
- 30% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 10,856
- +5.5% since 2020
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What this means
For hair salons, Butte County has a Groundwork market score of 80 (high): #79 of 2,339 scored counties and #2 of 16 scored counties in South Dakota. That puts it in the top 10% of counties for hair salons.
Household spending on personal care products and services in Butte County comes to about $4.2M a year: $977 per household, 3% below the U.S. average. Spread across 7 hair salons, that is $601K per salon, 40% above the U.S. figure of $430K. The spending figure covers all personal care products and services, not only hair salons.
Butte County has 7 hair salons on map listings as of September 2026. One of them (14%) is a chain location, against 14% across the U.S. That is 16.3 per 10,000 households, 30% below the U.S. rate of 23.4.
Official counts don’t publish a figure for beauty salons in Butte County, since they leave out counts under 3. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Butte County grew 5.5%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How Butte County compares
The same measures for South 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 | Butte County | South Dakota | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 16.3 | 20.0 | 23.4 |
| Spending per listing | $601K | $492K | $430K |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 2,285 | 1,535 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | −5.9% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +5.5% | +5.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on personal care products and services | $977 | $983 | $1,005 |
| Median household income | $75,652 | $75,081 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 80 | 71 |
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
- 26Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 71 chain location
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 10The 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 Butte 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 Butte County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 10,856+5.5% since 2020
- Households
- 4,306
- Median age
- 40.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 76%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.4
- Land area
- 2,250 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 5
- Median household income
- $75,652+62.7% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $96,122
- Median home value
- $244,600
- Jobs located here
- 2,873
- Daytime population
- 8,663Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in South Dakota
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Union County, SD | 86 | 10 | 13.7 | $796K | +3.3% | #33 of 2,339 |
| 2Butte County, SD | 80 | 7 | 16.3 | $601K | +5.5% | #79 of 2,339 |
| 3Meade County, SD | 79 | 17 | 14.2 | $701K | +2.7% | #92 of 2,339 |
| 4Beadle County, SD | 76 | 8 | 10.6 | $865K | +2.4% | #128 of 2,339 |
| 5Lincoln County, SD | 76 | 62 | 22.2 | $512K | +17.5% | #149 of 2,339 |
| 6Brookings County, SD | 67 | 22 | 15.9 | $601K | +9.6% | #388 of 2,339 |
| 7Yankton County, SD | 63 | 20 | 20.6 | $465K | +1.5% | #551 of 2,339 |
| 8Lake County, SD | 62 | 9 | 19.1 | $520K | −0.2% | #590 of 2,339 |
| 9Minnehaha County, SD | 62 | 176 | 20.8 | $487K | +7.6% | #597 of 2,339 |
| 10Pennington County, SD | 60 | 106 | 22.9 | $430K | +6.6% | #697 of 2,339 |
Other business types in Butte County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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 Butte County, SD?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 7 hair salons in Butte County. One of them (14%) is a chain location. The listings count hair and beauty salons. No official count is published for beauty salons in Butte County: counts under 3 are left out. Official counts list 26 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Butte County, SD spend on personal care products and services?
About $4.2M a year, or $977 per household. That is 3% below the U.S. average (an index of 97, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 7 hair salons on map listings, it comes to $601K 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 4,306 households in Butte County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Butte County, SD compare with the U.S. for hair salons?
Butte County has 16.3 hair salons per 10,000 households, 30% below the U.S. rate of 23.4. Spending per salon is $601K, 40% above the U.S. figure of $430K. At the U.S. ratio of hair salons to household spending, Butte County would have about 10, against 7 on map listings.
How fast is Butte County, SD growing?
Population estimates put Butte County at 10,856 people in 2025, up 5.5% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 4,306 households. Median household income in Butte County is $75,652, 6% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 62.7%, 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. Butte County scores 80 for hair salons (high), #79 of 2,339 scored counties.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
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