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Beauty and personal care · Small-town market · Ohio

Nail salons in the Van Wert, OH area

How the Van Wert, OH area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for nail salons: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.

Groundwork market score

Not scored

The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 2.

Listings
2
1 chain location (50%)
Official establishments
n/a
Fewer than 3, or not published
Household spending a year
$10.6M
On personal care products and services · $917 a household
Spending per listing
$5.3M
Too few listings to compare
Listings per 10k households
1.7
Too few listings to compare
Population, 2025
29,013
+0.3% since 2020

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Survey estimates 2020–2024 · population estimates 2025 · official business counts 2023 · map listings September 2026 · Data credits · How we measure

What this means

At $917 per household (9% below the U.S. average), households in the Van Wert area spend about $10.6M a year on personal care products and services. Spread across 2 nail salons, that is $5.3M per salon. The spending figure covers all personal care products and services, not only nail salons.

The Van Wert area has 2 nail salons on map listings as of September 2026. That is 1.7 per 10,000 households.

Official counts don’t publish a figure for nail salons in the Van Wert area, since they leave out counts under 3. Official counts list 8 one-person businesses without payroll.

Population estimates show the Van Wert area grew 0.3% from 2020 to 2025, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). With 2 nail salons on map listings, the Van Wert area isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.

How the Van Wert area compares

The same measures for Ohio 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.

Nail salons in Van Wert, OH area compared with Ohio and the U.S.
MeasureVan Wert areaOhioU.S.
Listings per 10k households1.74.06.0
Spending per listing$5.3M$2.5M$1.7M
Households per official establishmentn/a6,4243,754
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023n/a+17.9%+23.2%
Population growth, 2020–2025+0.3%+0.9%+3.1%
Spending per household on personal care products and services$917$976$1,005
Median household income$67,917$71,389$80,734
Groundwork market scoreNot scored59

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
8Businesses with no payroll
Map listings, September 2026
21 chain location
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
6The 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 Van Wert 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 Van Wert area

Population, 2025 estimate
29,013+0.3% since 2020
Households
11,549
Median age
41.7
Homes lived in by their owners
82%
Vehicles per household
2.0
Land area
409 sq. mi.
People per square mile
70
Median household income
$67,917+25.2% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$82,591
Median home value
$152,000
Jobs located here
11,293
Daytime population
25,207Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Nail salons across Ohio

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The highest-scoring small-town markets in Ohio for nail salons, numbered among those based in Ohio, with the Van Wert area marked.

Top small-town markets in Ohio

Small-town markets in Ohio ranked for nail salons by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1Wooster, OH7871.6$6.1M−0.1%#13 of 387
2Wapakoneta, OH7452.6$3.8M−1.2%#30 of 387
3Athens, OH7252.2$4M+1.3%#40 of 387
4Sidney, OH7263.2$3.1M−0.2%#43 of 387
5Urbana, OH7253.2$3M+0.2%#44 of 387
6Findlay, OH72113.5$2.8M+0.1%#46 of 387
7Mount Vernon, OH70104.3$2.3M+1.9%#65 of 387
8Celina, OH6963.7$2.6M+0.5%#72 of 387
9Salem, OH68102.4$3.6M−2.2%#76 of 387
10New Philadelphia-Dover, OH62143.6$2.5M−0.9%#113 of 387
Van Wert, OHNot scored21.7$5.3M+0.3%

Other business types in the Van Wert area

Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.

Questions

How many nail salons are in the Van Wert, OH area?

Map listings as of September 2026 show 2 nail salons in the Van Wert area. The listings count nail salons. No official count is published for nail salons in the Van Wert area: counts under 3 are left out. Official counts also show 8 one-person businesses without payroll.

How much do households in the Van Wert, OH area spend on personal care products and services?

About $10.6M a year, or $917 per household. That is 9% below the U.S. average (an index of 91, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 2 nail salons on map listings, it comes to $5.3M per salon. That spending covers all personal care products and services, which nail salons share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 11,549 households in the Van Wert area and national spending patterns by income.

How does the Van Wert, OH area compare with the U.S. for nail salons?

The Van Wert area has 2 nail salons on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the U.S. ratio of nail salons to household spending, the Van Wert area would have about 6, against 2 on map listings.

How fast is the Van Wert, OH area growing?

Population estimates put the Van Wert area at 29,013 people in 2025, up 0.3% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 11,549 households. Median household income in the Van Wert area is $67,917, 16% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 25.2%, 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. A small-town market is a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people and the county or counties tied to it by commuting. 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 Van Wert area has no market score for nail salons: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 2.

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How the score works · Top markets for nail salons · All 56 business types in the Van Wert area

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