Beauty and personal care · Metro area · Kentucky
Nail salons in the Bowling Green, KY metro area
How the Bowling Green, KY metro area compares with other metro areas and the U.S. for nail salons: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 59 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #111 of 387 scored metro areas
#2 of 6 scored metro areas based in Kentucky
- Listings
- 35
- 17 chain locations (49%)
- Official establishments
- 5
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $59.9M
- On personal care products and services · $817 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.7M
- 2% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 4.8
- 20% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 197,180
- +9.5% since 2020
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 35 nail salons in the Bowling Green metro area. Chain locations make up 49% of them, against 27% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 4.8, 20% below the U.S. rate of 6.0.
Households in the Bowling Green metro area spend about $59.9M a year on personal care products and services, or $817 per household, 19% below the U.S. average. That is about $1.7M of household spending for each salon on map listings, 2% above the U.S. figure of $1.7M. That spending covers all personal care products and services, which nail salons share with other businesses in the trade.
Official counts show 5 businesses with payroll classed as nail salons in the Bowling Green metro area in 2023. That is one for every 14,669 households, against one for every 3,754 across the U.S. Official counts also show 175 one-person businesses without payroll.
Population estimates put the population change in the Bowling Green metro area from 2020 to 2025 at +9.5%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). For nail salons, the Bowling Green metro area has a Groundwork market score of 59 (upper middle): #111 of 387 scored metro areas and #2 of 6 scored metro areas based in Kentucky.
How the Bowling Green metro area compares
The same measures for Kentucky and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all personal care products and services by the nail 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 | Bowling Green metro area | Kentucky | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 4.8 | 3.9 | 6.0 |
| Spending per listing | $1.7M | $2.1M | $1.7M |
| Households per official establishment | 14,669 | 15,508 | 3,754 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +46.3% | +23.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +9.5% | +2.2% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on personal care products and services | $817 | $833 | $1,005 |
| Median household income | $63,328 | $63,726 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 59 | 56 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 5
- Employees, 2023
- 8
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $440K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 175Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 3517 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 36The 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 nail salons in the Bowling Green 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 Bowling Green metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 197,180+9.5% since 2020
- Households
- 73,344
- Median age
- 36.9
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 61%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 1,614 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 116
- Median household income
- $63,328+27.4% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $85,606
- Median home value
- $233,700
- Jobs located here
- 78,351
- Daytime population
- 187,870Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Kentucky market ranked →The highest-scoring metro areas in Kentucky for nail salons, numbered among those based in Kentucky (a market based in another state is listed without a number), with the Bowling Green metro area marked.
Top metro areas in Kentucky
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN | 68 | 368 | 4.1 | $2.5M | +2.7% | #49 of 387 |
| 1Owensboro, KY | 59 | 12 | 2.7 | $3.2M | +1.3% | #103 of 387 |
| 2Bowling Green, KY | 59 | 35 | 4.8 | $1.7M | +9.5% | #111 of 387 |
| 3Lexington-Fayette, KY | 57 | 98 | 4.5 | $2M | +3.4% | #131 of 387 |
| 4Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN | 56 | 288 | 5.2 | $1.8M | +2.9% | #142 of 387 |
| Clarksville, TN-KY | 48 | 92 | 7.4 | $1.1M | +8.5% | #216 of 387 |
| 5Paducah, KY-IL | 47 | 14 | 3.4 | $2.5M | −1.2% | #217 of 387 |
| Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH | 46 | 65 | 4.3 | $1.9M | −2.6% | #226 of 387 |
| 6Elizabethtown, KY | 36 | 27 | 5.3 | $1.6M | +2.4% | #333 of 387 |
Other business types in the Bowling Green metro 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 spas59
- Hair salons55
- Barbershops42
- Nail salons59
- Spas and skin care64
Fitness and classes
Health care
Child care
Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many nail salons are in the Bowling Green, KY metro area?
The Bowling Green metro area has 35 nail salons on map listings as of September 2026. 17 of them (49%) are chain locations. The listings count nail salons. Official counts show 5 businesses with payroll classed as nail salons in 2023. Another 175 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.
How much do households in the Bowling Green, KY metro area spend on personal care products and services?
About $59.9M a year, or $817 per household. That is 19% below the U.S. average (an index of 81, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 35 nail salons on map listings, it comes to $1.7M per salon. The spending figure covers all personal care products and services, not only nail salons. It is estimated from the incomes of the 73,344 households in the Bowling Green metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Bowling Green, KY metro area compare with the U.S. for nail salons?
The Bowling Green metro area has 4.8 nail salons per 10,000 households, 20% below the U.S. rate of 6.0. Spending per salon is $1.7M, 2% above the U.S. figure of $1.7M. At the national ratio of nail salons to household spending, the Bowling Green metro area would have about 36, against 35 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 14,669 households, against one for every 3,754 across the U.S.
How fast is the Bowling Green, KY metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Bowling Green metro area at 197,180 people in 2025, up 9.5% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 73,344 households. The median household income in the Bowling Green metro area is $63,328 a year, 22% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 27.4% 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. The Bowling Green metro area scores 59 for nail salons (upper middle), #111 of 387 scored metro areas.
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