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Laundromats in Shelby County, KY
Competitor counts, household spending and official business counts for laundromats in Shelby County, KY, set against other counties and the U.S.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 1.
- Listings
- 1
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $35.8M
- On clothing, shoes and related services · $1,938 a household
- Spending per listing
- $35.8M
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 0.5
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 51,243
- +6.2% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 1 laundromat in Shelby County. That is 0.5 per 10,000 households.
Household spending on clothing, shoes and related services in Shelby County comes to about $35.8M a year: $1,938 per household, 6% below the U.S. average. That works out to $35.8M 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 Shelby County: counts under 3 aren’t published. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $869K has gone to businesses classed as coin-operated laundries in Shelby County.
Population estimates put the population change in Shelby County from 2020 to 2025 at +6.2%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). With 1 laundromat on map listings, Shelby County isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How Shelby County compares
The same measures for Kentucky 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 | Shelby County | Kentucky | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 0.5 | 1.2 | 1.6 |
| Spending per listing | $35.8M | $14.3M | $12.5M |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 20,856 | 11,865 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +3.6% | +3.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +6.2% | +2.2% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on clothing, shoes and related services | $1,938 | $1,761 | $2,055 |
| Median household income | $82,604 | $63,726 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 49 |
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
- 10 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 3The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $869K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as coin-operated laundries in Shelby 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 Shelby County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 51,243+6.2% since 2020
- Households
- 18,484
- Median age
- 41.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 74%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 380 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 129
- Median household income
- $82,604+23.2% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $104,252
- Median home value
- $304,800
- Jobs located here
- 16,455
- Daytime population
- 41,644Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
Looking at a specific site in Shelby County?
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Top counties in Kentucky
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Boone County, KY | 77 | 6 | 1.2 | $18.2M | +6.5% | #89 of 785 |
| 2Kenton County, KY | 72 | 7 | 1.0 | $19.1M | +3.9% | #136 of 785 |
| 3Warren County, KY | 59 | 7 | 1.3 | $14M | +10.6% | #278 of 785 |
| 4Campbell County, KY | 57 | 6 | 1.5 | $12.9M | +2.5% | #304 of 785 |
| 5Jefferson County, KY | 52 | 41 | 1.2 | $15M | +1.6% | #348 of 785 |
| 6Bullitt County, KY | 52 | 6 | 1.9 | $10.2M | +5.0% | #363 of 785 |
| 7Madison County, KY | 49 | 5 | 1.3 | $13M | +9.4% | #387 of 785 |
| 8Fayette County, KY | 47 | 24 | 1.7 | $11M | +2.2% | #416 of 785 |
| 9Daviess County, KY | 42 | 6 | 1.4 | $12.2M | +1.5% | #481 of 785 |
| 10Christian County, KY | 6 | 7 | 2.7 | $5.8M | −3.6% | #775 of 785 |
| Shelby County, KY | Not scored | 1 | 0.5 | $35.8M | +6.2% |
Other business types in Shelby County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Questions
How many laundromats are in Shelby County, KY?
There is 1 laundromat on map listings in Shelby County as of September 2026. The listings count laundromats. No official count is published for coin-operated laundries in Shelby County: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in Shelby County, KY spend on clothing, shoes and related services?
About $35.8M a year, or $1,938 per household. That is 6% below the U.S. average (an index of 94, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1 laundromat on map listings, it comes to $35.8M per laundromat. The spending figure covers all clothing, shoes and related services, not only laundromats. It is estimated from the incomes of the 18,484 households in Shelby County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Shelby County, KY compare with the U.S. for laundromats?
Shelby County has 1 laundromat on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the national ratio of laundromats to household spending, Shelby County would have about 3, against 1 on map listings.
How fast is Shelby County, KY growing?
Population estimates put Shelby County at 51,243 people in 2025, up 6.2% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 18,484 households. The median household income in Shelby County is $82,604 a year, 2% above the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 23.2% 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. 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. Shelby County has no market score for laundromats: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 1.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
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