Beauty and personal care · County · Pennsylvania
Spas and skin care studios in Lackawanna County, PA
How Lackawanna County, PA 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 49 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #924 of 1,769 scored counties
#46 of 53 scored counties in Pennsylvania
- Listings
- 80
- 9 chain locations (11%)
- Official establishments
- 16
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $80.6M
- On personal care products and services · $913 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1M
- 15% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 9.1
- 21% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 216,502
- +0.5% since 2020
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What this means
Household spending on personal care products and services in Lackawanna County comes to about $80.6M a year: $913 per household, 9% below the U.S. average. That works out to $1M per studio, 15% above the U.S. figure of $876K. The spending figure covers all personal care products and services, not only spas and skin care studios.
Lackawanna County has 80 spas and skin care studios on map listings as of September 2026. 9 of them (11%) are chain locations, against 10% across the U.S. That comes to 9.1 for every 10,000 households, 21% below the U.S. rate of 11.5.
In 2023, official counts showed 16 businesses with payroll in Lackawanna County classed as other personal care services. That is one for every 5,516 households, against one for every 4,055 across the U.S.
Population estimates show Lackawanna County grew 0.5% from 2020 to 2025, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). For spas and skin care studios, Lackawanna County has a Groundwork market score of 49 (lower middle): #924 of 1,769 scored counties and #46 of 53 scored counties in Pennsylvania.
How Lackawanna County compares
The same measures for Pennsylvania 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 | Lackawanna County | Pennsylvania | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 9.1 | 7.7 | 11.5 |
| Spending per listing | $1M | $1.3M | $876K |
| Households per official establishment | 5,516 | 4,817 | 4,055 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +32.4% | +29.8% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +0.5% | +0.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on personal care products and services | $913 | $1,004 | $1,005 |
| Median household income | $66,223 | $77,971 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 49 | 63 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 15 → 16
- Employees, 2023
- 49
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $1.4M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 809 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 92The 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 Lackawanna 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 Lackawanna County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 216,502+0.5% since 2020
- Households
- 88,263
- Median age
- 42.4
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 65%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.6
- Land area
- 459 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 471
- Median household income
- $66,223+25.4% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $89,204
- Median home value
- $201,800
- Jobs located here
- 97,186
- Daytime population
- 217,834Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Pennsylvania
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Adams County, PA | 82 | 20 | 4.9 | $2.1M | +3.6% | #51 of 1,769 |
| 2Pike County, PA | 77 | 18 | 7.4 | $1.4M | +7.2% | #102 of 1,769 |
| 3Schuylkill County, PA | 76 | 22 | 3.8 | $2.4M | +1.5% | #104 of 1,769 |
| 4York County, PA | 75 | 115 | 6.3 | $1.6M | +3.6% | #121 of 1,769 |
| 5Berks County, PA | 74 | 106 | 6.5 | $1.5M | +2.7% | #142 of 1,769 |
| 6Lebanon County, PA | 73 | 25 | 4.4 | $2.2M | +2.2% | #153 of 1,769 |
| 7Lancaster County, PA | 72 | 146 | 6.9 | $1.5M | +1.9% | #174 of 1,769 |
| 8Beaver County, PA | 70 | 40 | 5.5 | $1.7M | −1.1% | #215 of 1,769 |
| 9Dauphin County, PA | 69 | 78 | 6.4 | $1.5M | +2.3% | #246 of 1,769 |
| 10Wayne County, PA | 68 | 6 | 2.9 | $3.1M | +1.1% | #256 of 1,769 |
| 46Lackawanna County, PA | 49 | 80 | 9.1 | $1M | +0.5% | #924 of 1,769 |
Other business types in Lackawanna 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
- Salons, barbers and spas28
- Hair salons24
- Barbershops48
- Nail salons46
- Spas and skin care49
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 Lackawanna County, PA?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 80 spas and skin care studios in Lackawanna County. 9 of them (11%) are chain locations. The listings count spas, skin care, waxing, lash and tanning studios. Official counts show 16 businesses with payroll classed as other personal care services in 2023.
How much do households in Lackawanna County, PA spend on personal care products and services?
About $80.6M a year, or $913 per household. That is 9% below the U.S. average (an index of 91, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 80 spas and skin care studios on map listings, it comes to $1M 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 88,263 households in Lackawanna County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Lackawanna County, PA compare with the U.S. for spas and skin care studios?
Lackawanna County has 9.1 spas and skin care studios per 10,000 households, 21% below the U.S. rate of 11.5. Spending per studio is $1M, 15% above the U.S. figure of $876K. At the U.S. ratio of spas and skin care studios to household spending, Lackawanna County would have about 92, against 80 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 5,516 households, against one for every 4,055 across the U.S.
How fast is Lackawanna County, PA growing?
Population estimates put Lackawanna County at 216,502 people in 2025, up 0.5% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 88,263 households. The median household income in Lackawanna County is $66,223 a year, 18% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 25.4% 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. Lackawanna County scores 49 for spas and skin care studios (lower middle), #924 of 1,769 scored counties.
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