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Beauty and personal care · Small-town market · Pennsylvania

Nail salons in the East Stroudsburg, PA area

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

Groundwork market score · out of 100

Score 35 out of 100: Lower middle

Ranked #300 of 387 scored small-town markets
#13 of 13 scored small-town markets based in Pennsylvania

Listings
40
15 chain locations (38%)
Official establishments
27
+17.4% since 2019
Household spending a year
$61.7M
On personal care products and services · $1,008 a household
Spending per listing
$1.5M
8% below the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
6.5
8% above the U.S.
Population, 2025
167,179
−0.7% 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

For nail salons, the East Stroudsburg area has a Groundwork market score of 35 (lower middle): #300 of 387 scored small-town markets and #13 of 13 scored small-town markets based in Pennsylvania. That puts it in the bottom quarter of small-town markets.

Household spending on personal care products and services in the East Stroudsburg area comes to about $61.7M a year: $1,008 per household, in line with the U.S. average. Spread across 40 nail salons, that is $1.5M per salon, 8% below the U.S. figure of $1.7M. The spending figure covers all personal care products and services, not only nail salons.

The East Stroudsburg area has 40 nail salons on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 38% of them, against 27% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 6.5, 8% above the U.S. rate of 6.0.

In 2023, official counts showed 27 businesses with payroll in the East Stroudsburg area classed as nail salons, up 17.4% from 2019. That is one for every 2,267 households, against one for every 3,754 across the U.S. Population estimates put the population change in the East Stroudsburg area from 2020 to 2025 at −0.7%, against +3.1% for the U.S.

How the East Stroudsburg area compares

The same measures for Pennsylvania 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 East Stroudsburg, PA area compared with Pennsylvania and the U.S.
MeasureEast Stroudsburg areaPennsylvaniaU.S.
Listings per 10k households6.55.36.0
Spending per listing$1.5M$1.9M$1.7M
Households per official establishment2,2672,8573,754
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023+17.4%+14.7%+23.2%
Population growth, 2020–2025−0.7%+0.5%+3.1%
Spending per household on personal care products and services$1,008$1,004$1,005
Median household income$83,565$77,971$80,734
Groundwork market score3535

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
27+17.4% over the period
Employees, 2023
111
Annual payroll, 2023
$2.8M
One-person businesses, 2023
51Businesses with no payroll
Map listings, September 2026
4015 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
37The 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 East Stroudsburg 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 East Stroudsburg area

Population, 2025 estimate
167,179−0.7% since 2020
Households
61,212
Median age
44.0
Homes lived in by their owners
80%
Vehicles per household
1.9
Land area
608 sq. mi.
People per square mile
275
Median household income
$83,565+30.7% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$102,906
Median home value
$267,600
Jobs located here
50,869
Daytime population
150,408Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Nail salons across Pennsylvania

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The highest-scoring small-town markets in Pennsylvania for nail salons, numbered among those based in Pennsylvania, with the East Stroudsburg area marked.

Top small-town markets in Pennsylvania

Small-town markets in Pennsylvania ranked for nail salons by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1Hemlock Farms, PA9062.5$4.1M+7.2%#3 of 387
2Pottsville, PA71172.9$3.1M+1.5%#52 of 387
3Indiana, PA7092.8$3.1M−0.3%#62 of 387
4Meadville, PA6882.4$3.6M−2.4%#75 of 387
5Sunbury, PA62122.6$3.4M−1.7%#109 of 387
6DuBois, PA6292.8$3.1M−2.9%#110 of 387
7Somerset, PA5782.7$3.2M−2.7%#144 of 387
8Lewistown, PA5473.8$2.3M0.0%#175 of 387
9Bloomsburg-Berwick, PA53124.6$1.9M+2.3%#183 of 387
10Sayre, PA52114.5$2M−0.6%#193 of 387
13East Stroudsburg, PA35406.5$1.5M−0.7%#300 of 387

Other business types in the East Stroudsburg area

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

Questions

How many nail salons are in the East Stroudsburg, PA area?

Map listings as of September 2026 show 40 nail salons in the East Stroudsburg area. 15 of them (38%) are chain locations. The listings count nail salons. Official counts show 27 businesses with payroll classed as nail salons in 2023, up 17.4% from 2019. Another 51 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.

How much do households in the East Stroudsburg, PA area spend on personal care products and services?

About $61.7M a year, or $1,008 per household. That is in line with the U.S. average (an index of 100, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 40 nail salons on map listings, it comes to $1.5M 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 61,212 households in the East Stroudsburg area and national spending patterns by income.

How does the East Stroudsburg, PA area compare with the U.S. for nail salons?

The East Stroudsburg area has 6.5 nail salons per 10,000 households, 8% above the U.S. rate of 6.0. Spending per salon is $1.5M, 8% below the U.S. figure of $1.7M. At the U.S. ratio of nail salons to household spending, the East Stroudsburg area would have about 37, against 40 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 2,267 households, against one for every 3,754 across the U.S. The official count rose 17.4% from 2019 to 2023, against +23.2% for the U.S.

How fast is the East Stroudsburg, PA area growing?

Population estimates put the East Stroudsburg area at 167,179 people in 2025, down 0.7% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 61,212 households. Median household income in the East Stroudsburg area is $83,565, 4% above the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 30.7%, 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 East Stroudsburg area scores 35 for nail salons (lower middle), #300 of 387 scored small-town markets.

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