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Oil change and quick-lube shops in Orleans Parish, LA

How Orleans Parish, LA compares with other counties and the U.S. for oil change and quick-lube shops: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.

Groundwork market score · out of 100

Score 46 out of 100: Lower middle

Ranked #285 of 479 scored counties
#1 of 11 scored counties in Louisiana

Listings
6
6 chain locations (100%)
Official establishments
8
Businesses with payroll, 2023
Household spending a year
$94.7M
On vehicle maintenance and repairs · $608 a household
Spending per listing
$15.8M
15% above the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
0.4
43% below the U.S.
Population, 2025
362,154
−5.5% 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 $608 per household (37% below the U.S. average), households in Orleans Parish spend about $94.7M a year on vehicle maintenance and repairs. That works out to $15.8M per shop, 15% above the U.S. figure of $13.7M. The spending figure covers all vehicle maintenance and repairs, not only oil change and quick-lube shops.

Orleans Parish has 6 oil change and quick-lube shops on map listings as of September 2026. All of them are chain locations, against 73% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 0.4, 43% below the U.S. rate of 0.7.

The official count of businesses with payroll classed as oil change and lubrication shops in Orleans Parish was 8 in 2023. That is one for every 19,478 households, against one for every 14,222 across the U.S.

Population estimates put the population change in Orleans Parish from 2020 to 2025 at −5.5%, against +3.1% for the U.S. For oil change and quick-lube shops, Orleans Parish has a Groundwork market score of 46 (lower middle): #285 of 479 scored counties and #1 of 11 scored counties in Louisiana.

How Orleans Parish compares

The same measures for Louisiana and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all vehicle maintenance and repairs by the oil change and quick-lube shops counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.

Oil change and quick lube in Orleans Parish, LA compared with Louisiana and the U.S.
MeasureOrleans ParishLouisianaU.S.
Listings per 10k households0.41.00.7
Spending per listing$15.8M$8.2M$13.7M
Households per official establishment19,47811,42314,222
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023n/a+1.3%+12.1%
Population growth, 2020–2025−5.5%−0.7%+3.1%
Spending per household on vehicle maintenance and repairs$608$802$958
Median household income$56,631$60,756$80,734
Groundwork market score469

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
6 → 8
Employees, 2023
58
Annual payroll, 2023
$1.9M
One-person businesses, 2023
Not publishedNot published for this business type
Map listings, September 2026
66 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
7The 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 oil change and lubrication shops in Orleans Parish, 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 Orleans Parish

Population, 2025 estimate
362,154−5.5% since 2020
Households
155,821
Median age
39.4
Homes lived in by their owners
51%
Vehicles per household
1.3
Land area
170 sq. mi.
People per square mile
2,193
Median household income
$56,631+36.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$91,726
Median home value
$315,700
Jobs located here
192,799
Daytime population
412,758Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Oil change and quick lube across Louisiana

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The highest-scoring counties in Louisiana for oil change and quick-lube shops, numbered among those based in Louisiana, with Orleans Parish marked.

Top counties in Louisiana

Counties in Louisiana ranked for oil change and quick-lube shops by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1Orleans Parish, LA4660.4$15.8M−5.5%#285 of 479
2Lafayette Parish, LA3590.9$9M+6.5%#370 of 479
3St. Tammany Parish, LA34121.1$8.1M+5.3%#378 of 479
4East Baton Rouge Parish, LA33160.9$8.7M+0.1%#384 of 479
5Tangipahoa Parish, LA3381.5$5.4M+5.8%#390 of 479
6Calcasieu Parish, LA2281.0$8.3M−3.7%#439 of 479
7Bossier Parish, LA1891.8$4.9M+2.5%#453 of 479
8Jefferson Parish, LA16181.0$7.6M−1.9%#458 of 479
9Ouachita Parish, LA1281.3$6.1M−1.0%#468 of 479
10Rapides Parish, LA1271.4$5.5M−2.9%#470 of 479

Other business types in Orleans Parish

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

Questions

How many oil change and quick-lube shops are in Orleans Parish, LA?

Map listings as of September 2026 show 6 oil change and quick-lube shops in Orleans Parish. 6 of them (100%) are chain locations. The listings count oil change and quick-lube shops. Official counts show 8 businesses with payroll classed as oil change and lubrication shops in 2023.

How much do households in Orleans Parish, LA spend on vehicle maintenance and repairs?

About $94.7M a year, or $608 per household. That is 37% below the U.S. average (an index of 63, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 6 oil change and quick-lube shops on map listings, it comes to $15.8M per shop. That spending covers all vehicle maintenance and repairs, which oil change and quick-lube shops share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 155,821 households in Orleans Parish and national spending patterns by income.

How does Orleans Parish, LA compare with the U.S. for oil change and quick-lube shops?

Orleans Parish has 0.4 oil change and quick-lube shops per 10,000 households, 43% below the U.S. rate of 0.7. Spending per shop is $15.8M, 15% above the U.S. figure of $13.7M. At the U.S. ratio of oil change and quick-lube shops to household spending, Orleans Parish would have about 7, against 6 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 19,478 households, against one for every 14,222 across the U.S.

How fast is Orleans Parish, LA growing?

Population estimates put Orleans Parish at 362,154 people in 2025, down 5.5% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 155,821 households. Median household income in Orleans Parish is $56,631, 30% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 36.1%, 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. Orleans Parish scores 46 for oil change and quick-lube shops (lower middle), #285 of 479 scored counties.

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How the score works · Top markets for oil change and quick-lube shops · All 56 business types in Orleans Parish

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