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Beauty and personal care · Small-town market · Alaska

Spas and skin care studios in the Ketchikan, AK area

How the Ketchikan, AK area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for spas and skin care studios: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.

Groundwork market score

Not scored

The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 3.

Listings
3
0 chain locations (0%)
Official establishments
n/a
Fewer than 3, or not published
Household spending a year
$6.1M
On personal care products and services · $1,068 a household
Spending per listing
$2M
2.3 times the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
5.2
55% below the U.S.
Population, 2025
13,549
−2.6% 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

Map listings as of September 2026 show 3 spas and skin care studios in the Ketchikan area. That comes to 5.2 for every 10,000 households, 55% below the U.S. rate of 11.5.

Household spending on personal care products and services in the Ketchikan area comes to about $6.1M a year: $1,068 per household, 6% above the U.S. average. That is about $2M of household spending for each studio on map listings, 2.3 times the U.S. figure of $876K. That spending covers all personal care products and services, which spas and skin care studios share with other businesses in the trade.

There is no official count of businesses with payroll classed as other personal care services in the Ketchikan area: counts under 3 aren’t published.

Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Ketchikan area declined 2.6%, against +3.1% for the U.S. With 3 spas and skin care studios on map listings, the Ketchikan area isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.

How the Ketchikan area compares

The same measures for Alaska and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all personal care products and services by the spas and skin care studios counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.

Spas and skin care in Ketchikan, AK area compared with Alaska and the U.S.
MeasureKetchikan areaAlaskaU.S.
Listings per 10k households5.211.611.5
Spending per listing$2M$940K$876K
Households per official establishmentn/a3,9214,055
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023n/a+7.8%+29.8%
Population growth, 2020–2025−2.6%+0.6%+3.1%
Spending per household on personal care products and services$1,068$1,095$1,005
Median household income$92,885$92,788$80,734
Groundwork market scoreNot scored45

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
30 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 other personal care services in the Ketchikan area, 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 the Ketchikan area

Population, 2025 estimate
13,549−2.6% since 2020
Households
5,732
Median age
40.9
Homes lived in by their owners
69%
Vehicles per household
1.7
Land area
4,857 sq. mi.
People per square mile
3
Median household income
$92,885+27.7% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$114,287
Median home value
$393,300
Jobs located here
n/a
Daytime population
n/aResidents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Other business types in the Ketchikan area

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Questions

How many spas and skin care studios are in the Ketchikan, AK area?

There are 3 spas and skin care studios on map listings in the Ketchikan area as of September 2026. The listings count spas, skin care, waxing, lash and tanning studios. No official count is published for other personal care services in the Ketchikan area: counts under 3 are left out.

How much do households in the Ketchikan, AK area spend on personal care products and services?

About $6.1M a year, or $1,068 per household. That is 6% above the U.S. average (an index of 106, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 3 spas and skin care studios on map listings, it comes to $2M per studio. The spending figure covers all personal care products and services, not only spas and skin care studios. It is estimated from the incomes of the 5,732 households in the Ketchikan area and national spending patterns by income.

How does the Ketchikan, AK area compare with the U.S. for spas and skin care studios?

The Ketchikan area has 5.2 spas and skin care studios per 10,000 households, 55% below the U.S. rate of 11.5. Spending per studio is $2M, 2.3 times the U.S. figure of $876K. At the national ratio of spas and skin care studios to household spending, the Ketchikan area would have about 7, against 3 on map listings.

How fast is the Ketchikan, AK area growing?

Population estimates put the Ketchikan area at 13,549 people in 2025, down 2.6% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 5,732 households. Median household income in the Ketchikan area is $92,885, 15% above the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 27.7%, 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. A small-town market is a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people and the county or counties tied to it by commuting. 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. The Ketchikan area has no market score for spas and skin care studios: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 3.

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