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Laundromats in the Wildwood-The Villages, FL metro area
The laundromats in the Wildwood-The Villages, FL metro area, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other metro areas.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 2.
- Listings
- 2
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $130.7M
- On clothing, shoes and related services · $1,859 a household
- Spending per listing
- $65.4M
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 0.3
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 157,772
- +21.1% since 2020
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 2 laundromats in the Wildwood-The Villages metro area. That is 0.3 per 10,000 households.
Household spending on clothing, shoes and related services in the Wildwood-The Villages metro area comes to about $130.7M a year: $1,859 per household, 10% below the U.S. average. That works out to $65.4M per laundromat. That spending covers all clothing, shoes and related services, which laundromats share with other businesses in the trade.
There is no official count of businesses with payroll classed as coin-operated laundries in the Wildwood-The Villages metro area: counts under 3 aren’t published.
Population estimates show the Wildwood-The Villages metro area grew 21.1% from 2020 to 2025, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). With 2 laundromats on map listings, the Wildwood-The Villages metro area isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How the Wildwood-The Villages metro area compares
The same measures for Florida and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all clothing, shoes and related services by the laundromats 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 | Wildwood-The Villages metro area | Florida | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 0.3 | 1.4 | 1.6 |
| Spending per listing | $65.4M | $13.4M | $12.5M |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 12,415 | 11,865 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +11.9% | +3.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +21.1% | +8.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on clothing, shoes and related services | $1,859 | $1,922 | $2,055 |
| Median household income | $76,508 | $74,568 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 50 |
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
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 20 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 11The 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 coin-operated laundries in the Wildwood-The Villages 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 Wildwood-The Villages metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 157,772+21.1% since 2020
- Households
- 70,318
- Median age
- 62.4
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 88%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.5
- Land area
- 557 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 257
- Median household income
- $76,508
- Average household income
- $98,339
- Median home value
- $385,400
- Jobs located here
- 37,385
- Daytime population
- 146,480Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top metro areas in Florida
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL | 86 | 26 | 0.8 | $24.2M | +14.4% | #6 of 364 |
| 2Punta Gorda, FL | 77 | 8 | 0.9 | $20.4M | +15.5% | #28 of 364 |
| 3Naples-Marco Island, FL | 76 | 14 | 0.8 | $25.6M | +10.6% | #34 of 364 |
| 4Tallahassee, FL | 75 | 12 | 0.8 | $23.7M | +3.1% | #39 of 364 |
| 5Port St. Lucie, FL | 72 | 20 | 1.0 | $19.4M | +16.0% | #50 of 364 |
| 6Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL | 71 | 118 | 1.2 | $16.9M | +10.3% | #57 of 364 |
| 7Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL | 71 | 33 | 1.3 | $15.2M | +9.1% | #58 of 364 |
| 8North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL | 70 | 42 | 1.1 | $18.6M | +13.2% | #65 of 364 |
| 9Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL | 69 | 5 | 0.7 | $27.2M | +7.7% | #69 of 364 |
| 10Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL | 68 | 31 | 1.1 | $16.4M | +19.8% | #77 of 364 |
| Wildwood-The Villages, FL | Not scored | 2 | 0.3 | $65.4M | +21.1% |
Other business types in the Wildwood-The Villages metro area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Groceries and convenience
Auto
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Health care
Child care
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Home services
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Funeral services
Questions
How many laundromats are in the Wildwood-The Villages, FL metro area?
The Wildwood-The Villages metro area has 2 laundromats on map listings as of September 2026. The listings count laundromats. No official count is published for coin-operated laundries in the Wildwood-The Villages metro area: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in the Wildwood-The Villages, FL metro area spend on clothing, shoes and related services?
About $130.7M a year, or $1,859 per household. That is 10% below the U.S. average (an index of 90, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 2 laundromats on map listings, it comes to $65.4M per laundromat. The spending figure covers all clothing, shoes and related services, not only laundromats. It is estimated from the incomes of the 70,318 households in the Wildwood-The Villages metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Wildwood-The Villages, FL metro area compare with the U.S. for laundromats?
The Wildwood-The Villages metro area has 2 laundromats on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the national ratio of laundromats to household spending, the Wildwood-The Villages metro area would have about 11, against 2 on map listings.
How fast is the Wildwood-The Villages, FL metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Wildwood-The Villages metro area at 157,772 people in 2025, up 21.1% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 70,318 households. The median household income in the Wildwood-The Villages metro area is $76,508 a year, 5% 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 Wildwood-The Villages metro area has no market score for laundromats: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 2.
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