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Pet grooming and boarding businesses in Saline County, KS

How Saline County, KS compares with other counties and the U.S. for pet grooming and boarding businesses: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.

Groundwork market score · out of 100

Score 29 out of 100: Lower middle

Ranked #1,203 of 1,461 scored counties
#16 of 20 scored counties in Kansas

Listings
12
0 chain locations (0%)
Official establishments
5
Businesses with payroll, 2023
Household spending a year
$17.1M
On pets · $761 a household
Spending per listing
$1.4M
44% below the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
5.3
47% above the U.S.
Population, 2025
53,377
−1.6% 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

Saline County scores 29 (lower middle) on the Groundwork market score for pet grooming and boarding businesses, ranking #1,203 of 1,461 scored counties and #16 of 20 scored counties in Kansas. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.

Household spending on pets in Saline County comes to about $17.1M a year: $761 per household, 16% below the U.S. average. That works out to $1.4M per business, 44% below the U.S. figure of $2.5M. The spending figure covers all pets, not only pet grooming and boarding businesses.

Saline County has 12 pet grooming and boarding businesses on map listings as of September 2026. None of them are chain locations, against 9% across the U.S. That is 5.3 per 10,000 households, 47% above the U.S. rate of 3.6.

In 2023, official counts showed 5 businesses with payroll in Saline County classed as pet care (except veterinary). That is one for every 4,505 households, against one for every 5,057 across the U.S. Population estimates put the population change in Saline County from 2020 to 2025 at −1.6%, against +3.1% for the U.S.

How Saline County compares

The same measures for Kansas and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all pets by the pet grooming and boarding businesses counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.

Pet grooming and boarding in Saline County, KS compared with Kansas and the U.S.
MeasureSaline CountyKansasU.S.
Listings per 10k households5.33.53.6
Spending per listing$1.4M$2.5M$2.5M
Households per official establishment4,5055,3125,057
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023n/a+32.3%+25.2%
Population growth, 2020–2025−1.6%+1.3%+3.1%
Spending per household on pets$761$851$909
Median household income$65,422$74,275$80,734
Groundwork market score2950

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
4 → 5
Employees, 2023
22
Annual payroll, 2023
$664K
One-person businesses, 2023
Not publishedNot published for this business type
Map listings, September 2026
120 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 pet care (except veterinary) in Saline 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 Saline County

Population, 2025 estimate
53,377−1.6% since 2020
Households
22,523
Median age
42.0
Homes lived in by their owners
67%
Vehicles per household
1.9
Land area
720 sq. mi.
People per square mile
75
Median household income
$65,422+25.3% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$86,965
Median home value
$179,600
Jobs located here
28,888
Daytime population
57,460Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Pet grooming and boarding across Kansas

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The highest-scoring counties in Kansas for pet grooming and boarding businesses, numbered among those based in Kansas, with Saline County marked.

Top counties in Kansas

Counties in Kansas ranked for pet grooming and boarding businesses by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1Johnson County, KS70873.5$3.1M+4.2%#229 of 1,461
2Douglas County, KS70142.8$3M+1.8%#232 of 1,461
3Miami County, KS6964.4$2.1M+5.9%#266 of 1,461
4Wyandotte County, KS62101.6$4.6M+1.0%#415 of 1,461
5Leavenworth County, KS61103.3$2.8M+3.2%#443 of 1,461
6Shawnee County, KS60243.2$2.5M0.0%#478 of 1,461
7Butler County, KS58155.9$1.5M+3.1%#540 of 1,461
8Riley County, KS5593.2$2.4M+0.8%#601 of 1,461
9Sedgwick County, KS52793.8$2.1M+2.6%#679 of 1,461
10McPherson County, KS4654.1$2M−0.4%#815 of 1,461
16Saline County, KS29125.3$1.4M−1.6%#1,203 of 1,461

Other business types in Saline County

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

Questions

How many pet grooming and boarding businesses are in Saline County, KS?

Map listings as of September 2026 show 12 pet grooming and boarding businesses in Saline County. None of them are chain locations. The listings count groomers, boarding, dog daycare and pet sitters. Official counts show 5 businesses with payroll classed as pet care (except veterinary) in 2023.

How much do households in Saline County, KS spend on pets?

About $17.1M a year, or $761 per household. That is 16% below the U.S. average (an index of 84, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 12 pet grooming and boarding businesses on map listings, it comes to $1.4M per business. That spending covers all pets, which pet grooming and boarding businesses share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 22,523 households in Saline County and national spending patterns by income.

How does Saline County, KS compare with the U.S. for pet grooming and boarding businesses?

Saline County has 5.3 pet grooming and boarding businesses per 10,000 households, 47% above the U.S. rate of 3.6. Spending per business is $1.4M, 44% below the U.S. figure of $2.5M. At the U.S. ratio of pet grooming and boarding businesses to household spending, Saline County would have about 7, against 12 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 4,505 households, against one for every 5,057 across the U.S.

How fast is Saline County, KS growing?

Population estimates put Saline County at 53,377 people in 2025, down 1.6% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 22,523 households. Median household income in Saline County is $65,422, 19% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 25.3%, 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. Saline County scores 29 for pet grooming and boarding businesses (lower middle), #1,203 of 1,461 scored counties.

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