Beauty and personal care · County · Louisiana
Spas and skin care studios in Ascension Parish, LA
How Ascension Parish, LA compares with other counties and the U.S. for spas and skin care studios: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 64 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #397 of 1,769 scored counties
#3 of 39 scored counties in Louisiana
- Listings
- 40
- 8 chain locations (20%)
- Official establishments
- 11
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $47.7M
- On personal care products and services · $1,000 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.2M
- 36% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 8.4
- 27% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 135,105
- +6.4% since 2020
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What this means
Household spending on personal care products and services in Ascension Parish comes to about $47.7M a year: $1,000 per household, in line with the U.S. average. That works out to $1.2M per studio, 36% above the U.S. figure of $876K. The spending figure covers all personal care products and services, not only spas and skin care studios.
Ascension Parish has 40 spas and skin care studios on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 20% of them, against 10% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 8.4, 27% below the U.S. rate of 11.5.
In 2023, official counts showed 11 businesses with payroll in Ascension Parish classed as other personal care services. That is one for every 4,332 households, against one for every 4,055 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $332K has gone to businesses classed as other personal care services in Ascension Parish.
Population estimates put the population change in Ascension Parish from 2020 to 2025 at +6.4%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). For spas and skin care studios, Ascension Parish has a Groundwork market score of 64 (upper middle): #397 of 1,769 scored counties and #3 of 39 scored counties in Louisiana. That puts it in the top quarter of counties.
How Ascension Parish compares
The same measures for Louisiana 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.
| Measure | Ascension Parish | Louisiana | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 8.4 | 10.1 | 11.5 |
| Spending per listing | $1.2M | $814K | $876K |
| Households per official establishment | 4,332 | 6,836 | 4,055 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +30.7% | +29.8% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +6.4% | −0.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on personal care products and services | $1,000 | $826 | $1,005 |
| Median household income | $91,549 | $60,756 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 64 | 34 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 5 → 11
- Employees, 2023
- 46
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $1.5M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 408 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 54The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $332K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as other personal care services in Ascension 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 Ascension Parish
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 135,105+6.4% since 2020
- Households
- 47,656
- Median age
- 37.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 81%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 290 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 449
- Median household income
- $91,549+13.7% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $113,485
- Median home value
- $279,600
- Jobs located here
- 51,055
- Daytime population
- 119,780Residents 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1West Baton Rouge Parish, LA | 78 | 5 | 4.6 | $2M | +5.5% | #86 of 1,769 |
| 2Livingston Parish, LA | 74 | 37 | 6.9 | $1.3M | +8.5% | #147 of 1,769 |
| 3Ascension Parish, LA | 64 | 40 | 8.4 | $1.2M | +6.4% | #397 of 1,769 |
| 4St. Charles Parish, LA | 62 | 7 | 3.8 | $2.5M | −3.7% | #435 of 1,769 |
| 5Beauregard Parish, LA | 59 | 6 | 4.4 | $1.9M | +0.2% | #539 of 1,769 |
| 6Tangipahoa Parish, LA | 58 | 42 | 8.1 | $982K | +5.8% | #591 of 1,769 |
| 7St. Martin Parish, LA | 53 | 8 | 4.1 | $1.9M | −1.0% | #755 of 1,769 |
| 8Plaquemines Parish, LA | 53 | 5 | 6.1 | $1.5M | −5.3% | #757 of 1,769 |
| 9Vermilion Parish, LA | 51 | 11 | 5.0 | $1.5M | +1.3% | #829 of 1,769 |
| 10St. John the Baptist Parish, LA | 47 | 7 | 4.6 | $1.8M | −5.9% | #976 of 1,769 |
Other business types in Ascension 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
- Salons, barbers and spas47
- Hair salons70
- Barbershops50
- Nail salons34
- Spas and skin care64
Fitness and classes
Health care
Child care
Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many spas and skin care studios are in Ascension Parish, LA?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 40 spas and skin care studios in Ascension Parish. 8 of them (20%) are chain locations. The listings count spas, skin care, waxing, lash and tanning studios. Official counts show 11 businesses with payroll classed as other personal care services in 2023.
How much do households in Ascension Parish, LA spend on personal care products and services?
About $47.7M a year, or $1,000 per household. That is in line with the U.S. average (an index of 100, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 40 spas and skin care studios on map listings, it comes to $1.2M per studio. That spending covers all personal care products and services, which spas and skin care studios share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 47,656 households in Ascension Parish and national spending patterns by income.
How does Ascension Parish, LA compare with the U.S. for spas and skin care studios?
Ascension Parish has 8.4 spas and skin care studios per 10,000 households, 27% below the U.S. rate of 11.5. Spending per studio is $1.2M, 36% above the U.S. figure of $876K. At the U.S. ratio of spas and skin care studios to household spending, Ascension Parish would have about 54, against 40 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 4,332 households, against one for every 4,055 across the U.S.
How fast is Ascension Parish, LA growing?
Population estimates put Ascension Parish at 135,105 people in 2025, up 6.4% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 47,656 households. The median household income in Ascension Parish is $91,549 a year, 13% above the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 13.7% 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. Ascension Parish scores 64 for spas and skin care studios (upper middle), #397 of 1,769 scored counties.
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