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Nail salons in Lake County, SD

How Lake County, SD compares with other counties 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 none.

Listings
0
None on the map
Official establishments
n/a
Fewer than 3, or not published
Household spending a year
$4.7M
On personal care products and services · $993 a household
Spending per listing
n/a
Listings per 10k households
0.0
Population, 2025
10,993
−0.2% 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 $993 per household (in line with the U.S. average), households in Lake County spend about $4.7M a year on personal care products and services. The spending figure covers all personal care products and services, not only nail salons.

Map listings as of September 2026 show no nail salons in Lake County. At the national ratio of nail salons to household spending, Lake County would have about 3, against none on map listings.

Official counts don’t publish a figure for nail salons in Lake County, since they leave out counts under 3.

Population estimates show Lake County declined 0.2% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S. With no nail salons on map listings, Lake County isn’t given a market score for them.

How Lake County compares

The same measures for South Dakota 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 Lake County, SD compared with South Dakota and the U.S.
MeasureLake CountySouth DakotaU.S.
Listings per 10k households0.04.06.0
Spending per listingn/a$2.5M$1.7M
Households per official establishmentn/a8,3083,754
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023n/an/a+23.2%
Population growth, 2020–2025−0.2%+5.3%+3.1%
Spending per household on personal care products and services$993$983$1,005
Median household income$76,808$75,081$80,734
Groundwork market scoreNot scored75

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
0
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
0
Amount
$0

SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as nail salons in Lake 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 Lake County

Population, 2025 estimate
10,993−0.2% since 2020
Households
4,716
Median age
44.3
Homes lived in by their owners
74%
Vehicles per household
2.3
Land area
563 sq. mi.
People per square mile
19
Median household income
$76,808+24.2% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$104,754
Median home value
$247,600
Jobs located here
5,183
Daytime population
10,346Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Nail salons across South Dakota

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The highest-scoring counties in South Dakota for nail salons, numbered among those based in South Dakota, with Lake County marked.

Top counties in South Dakota

Counties in South Dakota ranked for nail salons by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1Minnehaha County, SD69475.5$1.8M+7.6%#182 of 1,328
2Brookings County, SD6675.1$1.9M+9.6%#250 of 1,328
3Lincoln County, SD61186.5$1.8M+17.5%#378 of 1,328
4Lawrence County, SD6175.8$1.6M+14.0%#382 of 1,328
5Pennington County, SD50296.3$1.6M+6.6%#709 of 1,328
Lake County, SDNot scored00.0n/a−0.2%

Other business types in Lake County

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

Questions

How many nail salons are in Lake County, SD?

There are no nail salons on map listings in Lake County as of September 2026. The listings count nail salons. No official count is published for nail salons in Lake County: counts under 3 are left out.

How much do households in Lake County, SD spend on personal care products and services?

About $4.7M a year, or $993 per household. That is in line with the U.S. average (an index of 99, where 100 is the U.S. average). 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 4,716 households in Lake County and national spending patterns by income.

How does Lake County, SD compare with the U.S. for nail salons?

Lake County has no nail salons on map listings. At the U.S. ratio of nail salons to household spending, Lake County would have about 3, against none on map listings.

How fast is Lake County, SD growing?

Population estimates put Lake County at 10,993 people in 2025, down 0.2% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 4,716 households. Median household income in Lake County is $76,808, 5% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 24.2%, 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. 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. Lake County has no market score for nail salons, having none on map listings.

How can I see the market around a specific site?

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