Beauty and personal care · Metro area · Texas
Hair salons in the Tyler, TX metro area
The hair salons in the Tyler, TX metro area, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other metro areas.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 37 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #324 of 387 scored metro areas
#18 of 26 scored metro areas based in Texas
- Listings
- 253
- 39 chain locations (15%)
- Official establishments
- 46
- +27.8% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $74.7M
- On personal care products and services · $899 a household
- Spending per listing
- $295K
- 31% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 30.4
- 30% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 252,549
- +7.8% since 2020
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What this means
For hair salons, the Tyler metro area has a Groundwork market score of 37 (lower middle): #324 of 387 scored metro areas and #18 of 26 scored metro areas based in Texas. That puts it in the bottom quarter of metro areas.
Household spending on personal care products and services in the Tyler metro area comes to about $74.7M a year: $899 per household, 11% below the U.S. average. That is about $295K of household spending for each salon on map listings, 31% below the U.S. figure of $430K. The spending figure covers all personal care products and services, not only hair salons.
The Tyler metro area has 253 hair salons on map listings as of September 2026. Of those, 39 are chain locations, or 15%, against 14% across the U.S. That is 30.4 per 10,000 households, 30% above the U.S. rate of 23.4.
In 2023, official counts showed 46 businesses with payroll in the Tyler metro area classed as beauty salons, up 27.8% from 2019. That is one for every 1,807 households, against one for every 1,535 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 2 SBA-backed loans worth $373K have gone to businesses classed as beauty salons in the Tyler metro area. Population estimates put the population change in the Tyler metro area from 2020 to 2025 at +7.8%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How the Tyler metro area compares
The same measures for Texas 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 | Tyler metro area | Texas | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 30.4 | 26.3 | 23.4 |
| Spending per listing | $295K | $356K | $430K |
| Households per official establishment | 1,807 | 1,915 | 1,535 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +27.8% | +17.4% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +7.8% | +8.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on personal care products and services | $899 | $937 | $1,005 |
| Median household income | $74,192 | $78,476 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 37 | 44 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 46+27.8% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 266
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $7.1M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 720Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 25339 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 174The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 2
- Amount
- $373K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as beauty salons in the Tyler 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 Tyler metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 252,549+7.8% since 2020
- Households
- 83,134
- Median age
- 38.3
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 69%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 922 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 262
- Median household income
- $74,192+30.6% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $97,956
- Median home value
- $240,700
- Jobs located here
- 111,630
- Daytime population
- 252,433Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top metro areas in Texas
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Midland, TX | 77 | 150 | 21.5 | $473K | +9.8% | #9 of 387 |
| 2Odessa, TX | 76 | 105 | 16.3 | $538K | +5.0% | #13 of 387 |
| 3College Station-Bryan, TX | 64 | 181 | 17.1 | $486K | +6.9% | #68 of 387 |
| 4Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX | 60 | 2,415 | 24.4 | $435K | +14.0% | #105 of 387 |
| 5Sherman-Denison, TX | 53 | 158 | 28.6 | $310K | +12.8% | #152 of 387 |
| 6Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX | 48 | 8,419 | 29.1 | $346K | +10.6% | #209 of 387 |
| 7San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX | 47 | 2,387 | 24.7 | $371K | +9.5% | #220 of 387 |
| 8Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX | 47 | 7,528 | 28.3 | $342K | +10.3% | #222 of 387 |
| 9Amarillo, TX | 45 | 225 | 21.8 | $399K | +2.7% | #236 of 387 |
| 10Lubbock, TX | 44 | 293 | 20.8 | $403K | +4.6% | #246 of 387 |
| 18Tyler, TX | 37 | 253 | 30.4 | $295K | +7.8% | #324 of 387 |
Other business types in the Tyler metro area
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
- Salons, barbers and spas34
- Hair salons37
- Barbershops32
- Nail salons49
- Spas and skin care27
Fitness and classes
Health care
Child care
Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many hair salons are in the Tyler, TX metro area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 253 hair salons in the Tyler metro area. 39 of them (15%) are chain locations. The listings count hair and beauty salons. Official counts show 46 businesses with payroll classed as beauty salons in 2023, up 27.8% from 2019. Official counts also show 720 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in the Tyler, TX metro area spend on personal care products and services?
About $74.7M a year, or $899 per household. That is 11% below the U.S. average (an index of 89, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 253 hair salons on map listings, it comes to $295K 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 83,134 households in the Tyler metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Tyler, TX metro area compare with the U.S. for hair salons?
The Tyler metro area has 30.4 hair salons per 10,000 households, 30% above the U.S. rate of 23.4. Spending per salon is $295K, 31% below the U.S. figure of $430K. At the U.S. ratio of hair salons to household spending, the Tyler metro area would have about 174, against 253 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,807 households, against one for every 1,535 across the U.S. The official count rose 27.8% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.0% for the U.S.
How fast is the Tyler, TX metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Tyler metro area at 252,549 people in 2025, up 7.8% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 83,134 households. Median household income in the Tyler metro area is $74,192, 8% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 30.6%, 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. The Tyler metro area scores 37 for hair salons (lower middle), #324 of 387 scored metro areas.
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