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Pet grooming and boarding businesses in Union Parish, LA
The pet grooming and boarding businesses in Union Parish, LA, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other counties.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 1.
- Listings
- 1
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 3
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $5.8M
- On pets · $676 a household
- Spending per listing
- $5.8M
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 1.2
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 20,561
- −2.5% since 2020
See the pet grooming and boarding businesses around any address in Union Parish
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 1 pet grooming or boarding business in Union Parish. That is 1.2 per 10,000 households.
Households in Union Parish spend about $5.8M a year on pets, or $676 per household, 26% below the U.S. average. That works out to $5.8M per business. That spending covers all pets, which pet grooming and boarding businesses share with other businesses in the trade.
In 2023, official counts showed 3 businesses with payroll in Union Parish classed as pet care (except veterinary). That is one for every 2,836 households, against one for every 5,057 across the U.S.
Population estimates put the population change in Union Parish from 2020 to 2025 at −2.5%, against +3.1% for the U.S. With 1 pet grooming or boarding business on map listings, Union Parish isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How Union Parish compares
The same measures for Louisiana 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.
| Measure | Union Parish | Louisiana | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 1.2 | 3.1 | 3.6 |
| Spending per listing | $5.8M | $2.7M | $2.5M |
| Households per official establishment | 2,836 | 8,891 | 5,057 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +19.4% | +25.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −2.5% | −0.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on pets | $676 | $822 | $909 |
| Median household income | $42,885 | $60,756 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 55 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 3
- Employees, 2023
- 3
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $28K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 10 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 2The 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 Union 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 Union Parish
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 20,561−2.5% since 2020
- Households
- 8,508
- Median age
- 43.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 78%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.8
- Land area
- 877 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 24
- Median household income
- $42,885−2.8% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $64,327
- Median home value
- $112,500
- Jobs located here
- 4,997
- Daytime population
- 17,220Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Louisiana
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Livingston Parish, LA | 87 | 14 | 2.6 | $3.4M | +8.5% | #14 of 1,461 |
| 2Ascension Parish, LA | 77 | 18 | 3.8 | $2.7M | +6.4% | #97 of 1,461 |
| 3Jefferson Parish, LA | 72 | 40 | 2.3 | $3.8M | −1.9% | #174 of 1,461 |
| 4East Baton Rouge Parish, LA | 72 | 42 | 2.4 | $3.6M | +0.1% | #175 of 1,461 |
| 5Lafayette Parish, LA | 71 | 32 | 3.2 | $2.7M | +6.5% | #210 of 1,461 |
| 6St. Tammany Parish, LA | 69 | 52 | 4.9 | $1.9M | +5.3% | #268 of 1,461 |
| 7West Baton Rouge Parish, LA | 66 | 5 | 4.6 | $2M | +5.5% | #335 of 1,461 |
| 8Calcasieu Parish, LA | 65 | 24 | 3.1 | $2.8M | −3.7% | #347 of 1,461 |
| 9St. Bernard Parish, LA | 64 | 5 | 3.1 | $2.6M | +4.1% | #377 of 1,461 |
| 10Tangipahoa Parish, LA | 64 | 22 | 4.2 | $1.8M | +5.8% | #393 of 1,461 |
| Union Parish, LA | Not scored | 1 | 1.2 | $5.8M | −2.5% |
Other business types in Union Parish
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
Auto
Beauty and personal care
Fitness and classes
Health care
Pets
- Pet businesses43
- Veterinarians
- Pet grooming and boarding
- Pet stores
Child care
Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many pet grooming and boarding businesses are in Union Parish, LA?
Union Parish has 1 pet grooming or boarding business on map listings as of September 2026. The listings count groomers, boarding, dog daycare and pet sitters. Official counts show 3 businesses with payroll classed as pet care (except veterinary) in 2023.
How much do households in Union Parish, LA spend on pets?
About $5.8M a year, or $676 per household. That is 26% below the U.S. average (an index of 74, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1 pet grooming or boarding business on map listings, it comes to $5.8M per business. The spending figure covers all pets, not only pet grooming and boarding businesses. It is estimated from the incomes of the 8,508 households in Union Parish and national spending patterns by income.
How does Union Parish, LA compare with the U.S. for pet grooming and boarding businesses?
Union Parish has 1 pet grooming or boarding business on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the national ratio of pet grooming and boarding businesses to household spending, Union Parish would have about 2, against 1 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 2,836 households, against one for every 5,057 across the U.S.
How fast is Union Parish, LA growing?
Population estimates put Union Parish at 20,561 people in 2025, down 2.5% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 8,508 households. The median household income in Union Parish is $42,885 a year, 47% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That fell 2.8% from the 2015–2019 survey, 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. Union Parish has no market score for pet grooming and boarding businesses: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 1.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
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