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Pet grooming and boarding businesses in Bertie County, NC
How Bertie County, NC compares with other counties and the U.S. for pet grooming and boarding businesses: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 1.
- Listings
- 1
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $5.3M
- On pets · $748 a household
- Spending per listing
- $5.3M
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 1.4
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 17,086
- −3.6% since 2020
See the pet grooming and boarding businesses around any address in Bertie County
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What this means
Household spending on pets in Bertie County comes to about $5.3M a year: $748 per household, 18% below the U.S. average. That works out to $5.3M per business. The spending figure covers all pets, not only pet grooming and boarding businesses.
Bertie County has 1 pet grooming or boarding business on map listings as of September 2026. That is 1.4 per 10,000 households.
Official counts don’t publish a figure for pet care (except veterinary) in Bertie County, since they leave out counts under 3.
Population estimates show Bertie County declined 3.6% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S. With 1 pet grooming or boarding business on map listings, Bertie County isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How Bertie County compares
The same measures for North Carolina 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 | Bertie County | North Carolina | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 1.4 | 3.8 | 3.6 |
| Spending per listing | $5.3M | $2.4M | $2.5M |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 4,600 | 5,057 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +24.0% | +25.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −3.6% | +7.2% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on pets | $748 | $899 | $909 |
| Median household income | $48,750 | $72,388 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 56 |
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
- 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 Bertie 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 Bertie County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 17,086−3.6% since 2020
- Households
- 7,143
- Median age
- 47.6
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 73%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 699 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 25
- Median household income
- $48,750+37.2% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $71,465
- Median home value
- $98,500
- Jobs located here
- 4,889
- Daytime population
- 15,340Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in North Carolina
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Durham County, NC | 82 | 32 | 2.3 | $4.4M | +7.7% | #39 of 1,461 |
| 2Alamance County, NC | 81 | 16 | 2.3 | $3.6M | +8.5% | #47 of 1,461 |
| 3Harnett County, NC | 80 | 18 | 3.6 | $2.4M | +12.3% | #67 of 1,461 |
| 4Wayne County, NC | 79 | 8 | 1.7 | $4.6M | +3.8% | #70 of 1,461 |
| 5Franklin County, NC | 78 | 7 | 2.5 | $3.5M | +18.8% | #84 of 1,461 |
| 6Cabarrus County, NC | 78 | 27 | 3.2 | $3.2M | +9.9% | #89 of 1,461 |
| 7Hoke County, NC | 78 | 5 | 2.6 | $3.1M | +9.0% | #90 of 1,461 |
| 8Guilford County, NC | 78 | 62 | 2.8 | $3.1M | +4.4% | #91 of 1,461 |
| 9Currituck County, NC | 76 | 6 | 5.1 | $2M | +16.7% | #113 of 1,461 |
| 10Mecklenburg County, NC | 75 | 158 | 3.4 | $3M | +10.5% | #121 of 1,461 |
| Bertie County, NC | Not scored | 1 | 1.4 | $5.3M | −3.6% |
Other business types in Bertie County
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 businesses52
- 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 Bertie County, NC?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 1 pet grooming or boarding business in Bertie County. The listings count groomers, boarding, dog daycare and pet sitters. No official count is published for pet care (except veterinary) in Bertie County: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in Bertie County, NC spend on pets?
About $5.3M a year, or $748 per household. That is 18% below the U.S. average (an index of 82, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1 pet grooming or boarding business on map listings, it comes to $5.3M 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 7,143 households in Bertie County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Bertie County, NC compare with the U.S. for pet grooming and boarding businesses?
Bertie County has 1 pet grooming or boarding business on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the U.S. ratio of pet grooming and boarding businesses to household spending, Bertie County would have about 2, against 1 on map listings.
How fast is Bertie County, NC growing?
Population estimates put Bertie County at 17,086 people in 2025, down 3.6% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 7,143 households. Median household income in Bertie County is $48,750, 40% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 37.2%, 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. Bertie County 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?
Run a Groundwork site report on an address in Bertie County. It maps the pet grooming and boarding businesses on map listings near the site and sizes the households and spending within the distance you choose. New accounts get 10 actions over 3 days, no card.
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