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Medical and dental practices in Norton County, KS
How Norton County, KS compares with other counties and the U.S. for medical and dental practices: 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
- 9
- 1 chain location (11%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $2.4M
- On medical and dental services · $1,179 a household
- Spending per listing
- $262K
- 72% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 45.0
- 47% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 5,288
- −3.0% since 2020
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What this means
Households in Norton County spend about $2.4M a year on medical and dental services, or $1,179 per household, 8% below the U.S. average. That is about $262K of household spending for each practice on map listings, 72% above the U.S. figure of $152K.
Norton County has 9 medical and dental practices on map listings as of September 2026. One of them (11%) is a chain location, against 11% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 45.0, 47% below the U.S. rate of 84.5.
Official counts don’t publish a figure for offices of physicians, dentists, chiropractors, optometrists and therapists, and urgent care centers in Norton County, since they leave out counts under 3.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Norton County declined 3.0%, against +3.1% for the U.S. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t given a market score, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
How Norton County compares
The same measures for Kansas and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all medical and dental services by the medical and dental practices 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 | Norton County | Kansas | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 45.0 | 82.9 | 84.5 |
| Spending per listing | $262K | $172K | $152K |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 294 | 270 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +6.0% | +1.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −3.0% | +1.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on medical and dental services | $1,179 | $1,422 | $1,288 |
| Median household income | $54,050 | $74,275 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 58 |
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
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 91 chain location
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 16The 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 offices of physicians, dentists, chiropractors, optometrists and therapists, and urgent care centers in Norton 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 Norton County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 5,288−3.0% since 2020
- Households
- 2,000
- Median age
- 41.4
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 76%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 878 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 6
- Median household income
- $54,050
- Average household income
- $67,022
- Median home value
- $101,500
- Jobs located here
- 2,344
- Daytime population
- 5,421Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
Looking at a specific site in Norton County?
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Top counties in Kansas
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Osage County, KS | 80 | 16 | 24.9 | $539K | −0.3% | #97 of 2,394 |
| 2Jackson County, KS | 77 | 23 | 45.9 | $297K | +1.5% | #160 of 2,394 |
| 3Jefferson County, KS | 76 | 26 | 35.1 | $416K | −0.2% | #168 of 2,394 |
| 4Pottawatomie County, KS | 74 | 46 | 49.0 | $307K | +6.9% | #242 of 2,394 |
| 5Dickinson County, KS | 74 | 40 | 49.9 | $269K | +1.4% | #245 of 2,394 |
| 6Leavenworth County, KS | 73 | 159 | 52.7 | $289K | +3.2% | #266 of 2,394 |
| 7Miami County, KS | 72 | 80 | 58.2 | $259K | +5.9% | #295 of 2,394 |
| 8Franklin County, KS | 71 | 47 | 45.2 | $301K | +1.1% | #323 of 2,394 |
| 9Marion County, KS | 67 | 14 | 29.5 | $436K | −1.3% | #431 of 2,394 |
| 10Geary County, KS | 67 | 55 | 38.8 | $319K | −1.2% | #444 of 2,394 |
| Norton County, KS | Not scored | 9 | 45.0 | $262K | −3.0% |
Other business types in Norton 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 medical and dental practices are in Norton County, KS?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 9 medical and dental practices in Norton County. One of them (11%) is a chain location. The listings count every outpatient clinic and practice, and urgent care. No official count is published for offices of physicians, dentists, chiropractors, optometrists and therapists, and urgent care centers in Norton County: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in Norton County, KS spend on medical and dental services?
About $2.4M a year, or $1,179 per household. That is 8% below the U.S. average (an index of 92, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 9 medical and dental practices on map listings, it comes to $262K per practice. It is estimated from the incomes of the 2,000 households in Norton County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Norton County, KS compare with the U.S. for medical and dental practices?
Norton County has 45.0 medical and dental practices per 10,000 households, 47% below the U.S. rate of 84.5. Spending per practice is $262K, 72% above the U.S. figure of $152K. At the U.S. ratio of medical and dental practices to household spending, Norton County would have about 16, against 9 on map listings.
How fast is Norton County, KS growing?
Population estimates put Norton County at 5,288 people in 2025, down 3.0% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 2,000 households. The median household income in Norton County is $54,050 a year, 33% 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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