Beauty and personal care · Small-town market · Virginia
Hair salons in the Danville, VA area
How the Danville, VA area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for hair salons: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 41 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #367 of 538 scored small-town markets
#2 of 3 scored small-town markets based in Virginia
- Listings
- 82
- 7 chain locations (9%)
- Official establishments
- 10
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $32.5M
- On personal care products and services · $736 a household
- Spending per listing
- $396K
- 8% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 18.6
- 21% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 101,137
- −1.7% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 82 hair salons in the Danville area. 7 of them (9%) are chain locations, against 14% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 18.6, 21% below the U.S. rate of 23.4.
Household spending on personal care products and services in the Danville area comes to about $32.5M a year: $736 per household, 27% below the U.S. average. Spread across 82 hair salons, that is $396K per salon, 8% 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.
Official counts show 10 businesses with payroll classed as beauty salons in the Danville area in 2023. That is one for every 4,409 households, against one for every 1,535 across the U.S. Official counts also show 421 one-person businesses without payroll. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $753K has gone to businesses classed as beauty salons in the Danville area.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Danville area declined 1.7%, against +3.1% for the U.S. The Groundwork market score for hair salons in the Danville area is 41 (lower middle), #367 of 538 scored small-town markets and #2 of 3 scored small-town markets based in Virginia.
How the Danville area compares
The same measures for Virginia 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 | Danville area | Virginia | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 18.6 | 22.0 | 23.4 |
| Spending per listing | $396K | $466K | $430K |
| Households per official establishment | 4,409 | 1,294 | 1,535 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +4.1% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −1.7% | +2.8% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on personal care products and services | $736 | $1,023 | $1,005 |
| Median household income | $49,874 | $93,170 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 41 | 52 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 10
- Employees, 2023
- 38
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $621K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 421Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 827 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 75The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $753K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as beauty salons in the Danville 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 Danville area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 101,137−1.7% since 2020
- Households
- 44,086
- Median age
- 44.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 65%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 1,012 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 101
- Median household income
- $49,874+18.3% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $67,587
- Median home value
- $150,900
- Jobs located here
- 37,406
- Daytime population
- 97,358Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Virginia market ranked →The highest-scoring small-town markets in Virginia for hair salons, numbered among those based in Virginia (a market based in another state is listed without a number), with the Danville area marked.
Top small-town markets in Virginia
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Lake of the Woods, VA | 78 | 19 | 12.8 | $787K | +10.1% | #15 of 538 |
| 2Danville, VA | 41 | 82 | 18.6 | $396K | −1.7% | #367 of 538 |
| 3Martinsville, VA | 28 | 65 | 24.3 | $301K | −1.9% | #486 of 538 |
| Bluefield, WV-VA | 19 | 99 | 24.4 | $306K | −3.8% | #520 of 538 |
Other business types in the Danville 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 spas37
- Hair salons41
- Barbershops20
- Nail salons15
- Spas and skin care39
Fitness and classes
Health care
Child care
Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many hair salons are in the Danville, VA area?
There are 82 hair salons on map listings in the Danville area as of September 2026. 7 of them (9%) are chain locations. The listings count hair and beauty salons. Official counts show 10 businesses with payroll classed as beauty salons in 2023. Another 421 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.
How much do households in the Danville, VA area spend on personal care products and services?
About $32.5M a year, or $736 per household. That is 27% below the U.S. average (an index of 73, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 82 hair salons on map listings, it comes to $396K per salon. The spending figure covers all personal care products and services, not only hair salons. It is estimated from the incomes of the 44,086 households in the Danville area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Danville, VA area compare with the U.S. for hair salons?
The Danville area has 18.6 hair salons per 10,000 households, 21% below the U.S. rate of 23.4. Spending per salon is $396K, 8% below the U.S. figure of $430K. At the national ratio of hair salons to household spending, the Danville area would have about 75, against 82 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 4,409 households, against one for every 1,535 across the U.S.
How fast is the Danville, VA area growing?
Population estimates put the Danville area at 101,137 people in 2025, down 1.7% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 44,086 households. The median household income in the Danville area is $49,874 a year, 38% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 18.3% 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. A small-town market is a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people and the county or counties tied to it by commuting. 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 Danville area scores 41 for hair salons (lower middle), #367 of 538 scored small-town markets.
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