Beauty and personal care · County · Washington
Hair salons in Wahkiakum County, WA
How Wahkiakum County, WA compares with other counties and the U.S. for hair salons: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
- Listings
- 1
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $1.9M
- On personal care products and services · $883 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.9M
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 4.8
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 4,873
- +9.6% since 2020
See the hair salons around any address in Wahkiakum County
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 1 hair salon in Wahkiakum County. That is 4.8 per 10,000 households.
Household spending on personal care products and services in Wahkiakum County comes to about $1.9M a year: $883 per household, 12% below the U.S. average. That works out to $1.9M per salon. That spending covers all personal care products and services, which hair salons share with other businesses in the trade.
There is no official count of businesses with payroll classed as beauty salons in Wahkiakum County: counts under 3 aren’t published. Official counts also show 5 one-person businesses without payroll.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Wahkiakum County grew 9.6%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). Counties under 10,000 people aren’t given a market score, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
How Wahkiakum County compares
The same measures for Washington 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 | Wahkiakum County | Washington | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 4.8 | 20.7 | 23.4 |
| Spending per listing | $1.9M | $548K | $430K |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 1,414 | 1,535 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +7.4% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +9.6% | +3.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on personal care products and services | $883 | $1,137 | $1,005 |
| Median household income | $62,653 | $98,141 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 69 |
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
- 5Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 10 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 4The 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 Wahkiakum 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 Wahkiakum County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 4,873+9.6% since 2020
- Households
- 2,100
- Median age
- 53.5
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 83%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 263 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 18
- Median household income
- $62,653
- Average household income
- $83,288
- Median home value
- $396,800
- Jobs located here
- 701
- Daytime population
- 3,573Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Washington
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mason County, WA | 90 | 28 | 10.8 | $948K | +7.8% | #12 of 2,339 |
| 2Klickitat County, WA | 88 | 10 | 10.1 | $959K | +6.6% | #20 of 2,339 |
| 3Douglas County, WA | 87 | 13 | 8.2 | $1.3M | +8.0% | #23 of 2,339 |
| 4Lincoln County, WA | 87 | 5 | 10.4 | $906K | +9.7% | #25 of 2,339 |
| 5Stevens County, WA | 84 | 29 | 15.0 | $626K | +6.6% | #46 of 2,339 |
| 6Pend Oreille County, WA | 83 | 7 | 11.8 | $792K | +7.1% | #49 of 2,339 |
| 7Franklin County, WA | 81 | 43 | 14.4 | $729K | +5.6% | #68 of 2,339 |
| 8San Juan County, WA | 80 | 12 | 13.3 | $796K | +4.2% | #73 of 2,339 |
| 9Jefferson County, WA | 79 | 19 | 11.6 | $848K | +2.7% | #87 of 2,339 |
| 10Pacific County, WA | 79 | 12 | 10.9 | $840K | +3.6% | #88 of 2,339 |
| Wahkiakum County, WA | Not scored | 1 | 4.8 | $1.9M | +9.6% |
Other business types in Wahkiakum County
None has a Groundwork market score here. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
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 Wahkiakum County, WA?
There is 1 hair salon on map listings in Wahkiakum County as of September 2026. The listings count hair and beauty salons. No official count is published for beauty salons in Wahkiakum County: counts under 3 are left out. Official counts list 5 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Wahkiakum County, WA spend on personal care products and services?
About $1.9M a year, or $883 per household. That is 12% below the U.S. average (an index of 88, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1 hair salon on map listings, it comes to $1.9M per salon. The spending figure covers all personal care products and services, not only hair salons. It is estimated from the incomes of the 2,100 households in Wahkiakum County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Wahkiakum County, WA compare with the U.S. for hair salons?
Wahkiakum County has 1 hair salon on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the national ratio of hair salons to household spending, Wahkiakum County would have about 4, against 1 on map listings.
How fast is Wahkiakum County, WA growing?
Population estimates put Wahkiakum County at 4,873 people in 2025, up 9.6% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 2,100 households. The median household income in Wahkiakum County is $62,653 a year, 22% below the U.S. median of $80,734.
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 score leaves out counties under 10,000 people, where a handful of businesses would swing it.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
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