Beauty and personal care · Small-town market · New Mexico
Spas and skin care studios in the Taos, NM area
Competitor counts, household spending and official business counts for spas and skin care studios in the Taos, NM area, set against other small-town markets and the U.S.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 35 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #410 of 504 scored small-town markets
#7 of 10 scored small-town markets based in New Mexico
- Listings
- 17
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $13.6M
- On personal care products and services · $877 a household
- Spending per listing
- $802K
- 8% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 10.9
- 5% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 34,564
- +0.3% since 2020
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What this means
For spas and skin care studios, the Taos area has a Groundwork market score of 35 (lower middle): #410 of 504 scored small-town markets and #7 of 10 scored small-town markets based in New Mexico. That puts it in the bottom quarter of small-town markets.
Households in the Taos area spend about $13.6M a year on personal care products and services, or $877 per household, 13% below the U.S. average. That works out to $802K per studio, 8% below the U.S. figure of $876K. The spending figure covers all personal care products and services, not only spas and skin care studios.
The Taos area has 17 spas and skin care studios on map listings as of September 2026. None of them are chain locations, against 10% across the U.S. That comes to 10.9 for every 10,000 households, 5% below the U.S. rate of 11.5.
Official counts don’t publish a figure for other personal care services in the Taos area, since they leave out counts under 3. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Taos area grew 0.3%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How the Taos area compares
The same measures for New Mexico 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 | Taos area | New Mexico | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 10.9 | 9.4 | 11.5 |
| Spending per listing | $802K | $968K | $876K |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 6,921 | 4,055 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +31.5% | +29.8% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +0.3% | +0.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on personal care products and services | $877 | $913 | $1,005 |
| Median household income | $58,950 | $64,059 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 35 | 48 |
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
- 170 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 16The 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 Taos 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 Taos area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 34,564+0.3% since 2020
- Households
- 15,549
- Median age
- 50.4
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 78%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 2,202 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 16
- Median household income
- $58,950+53.8% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $87,052
- Median home value
- $382,800
- Jobs located here
- 10,507
- Daytime population
- 34,773Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top small-town markets in New Mexico
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Alamogordo, NM | 69 | 15 | 6.1 | $1.4M | +3.7% | #69 of 504 |
| 2Los Alamos, NM | 61 | 6 | 7.3 | $1.9M | 0.0% | #132 of 504 |
| 3Gallup, NM | 51 | 6 | 2.8 | $2.8M | −6.1% | #233 of 504 |
| 4Hobbs, NM | 50 | 22 | 8.9 | $1M | +0.2% | #249 of 504 |
| 5Roswell, NM | 49 | 12 | 5.1 | $1.6M | −2.7% | #254 of 504 |
| 6Carlsbad-Artesia, NM | 48 | 26 | 11.0 | $890K | +0.3% | #274 of 504 |
| 7Taos, NM | 35 | 17 | 10.9 | $802K | +0.3% | #410 of 504 |
| 8Clovis, NM | 31 | 21 | 8.1 | $1M | −3.3% | #433 of 504 |
| 9Deming, NM | 26 | 7 | 7.6 | $942K | −0.2% | #467 of 504 |
| 10Ruidoso, NM | 13 | 19 | 19.0 | $439K | −2.3% | #501 of 504 |
Other business types in the Taos area
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 spas63
- Hair salons69
- Barbershops
- Nail salons
- Spas and skin care35
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 the Taos, NM area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 17 spas and skin care studios in the Taos area. None of them are chain locations. The listings count spas, skin care, waxing, lash and tanning studios. No official count is published for other personal care services in the Taos area: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in the Taos, NM area spend on personal care products and services?
About $13.6M a year, or $877 per household. That is 13% below the U.S. average (an index of 87, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 17 spas and skin care studios on map listings, it comes to $802K 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 15,549 households in the Taos area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Taos, NM area compare with the U.S. for spas and skin care studios?
The Taos area has 10.9 spas and skin care studios per 10,000 households, 5% below the U.S. rate of 11.5. Spending per studio is $802K, 8% below the U.S. figure of $876K. At the U.S. ratio of spas and skin care studios to household spending, the Taos area would have about 16, against 17 on map listings.
How fast is the Taos, NM area growing?
Population estimates put the Taos area at 34,564 people in 2025, up 0.3% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 15,549 households. The median household income in the Taos area is $58,950 a year, 27% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 53.8% 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. 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 Taos area scores 35 for spas and skin care studios (lower middle), #410 of 504 scored small-town markets.
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