Health care · Metro area · Kentucky
Urgent care and walk-in clinics in the Bowling Green, KY metro area
How the Bowling Green, KY metro area compares with other metro areas and the U.S. for urgent care and walk-in clinics: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 30 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #169 of 197 scored metro areas
#2 of 4 scored metro areas based in Kentucky
- Listings
- 6
- 1 chain location (17%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $75.3M
- On medical and dental services · $1,027 a household
- Spending per listing
- $12.6M
- 49% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 0.8
- 60% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 197,180
- +9.5% since 2020
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What this means
For urgent care and walk-in clinics, the Bowling Green metro area has a Groundwork market score of 30 (lower middle): #169 of 197 scored metro areas and #2 of 4 scored metro areas based in Kentucky. That puts it in the bottom quarter of metro areas.
Map listings as of September 2026 show 6 urgent care and walk-in clinics in the Bowling Green metro area. One of them (17%) is a chain location, against 24% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 0.8, 60% above the U.S. rate of 0.5.
Household spending on medical and dental services in the Bowling Green metro area comes to about $75.3M a year: $1,027 per household, 20% below the U.S. average. That is about $12.6M of household spending for each clinic on map listings, 49% below the U.S. figure of $24.5M. That spending covers all medical and dental services, which urgent care and walk-in clinics share with other businesses in the trade.
There is no official count of businesses with payroll classed as freestanding emergency and urgent care centers in the Bowling Green metro area: counts under 3 aren’t published. Population estimates put the population change in the Bowling Green metro area from 2020 to 2025 at +9.5%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How the Bowling Green metro area compares
The same measures for Kentucky and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all medical and dental services by the urgent care and walk-in clinics 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 | Bowling Green metro area | Kentucky | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| Spending per listing | $12.6M | $19.7M | $24.5M |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 11,937 | 12,867 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +35.7% | +32.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +9.5% | +2.2% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on medical and dental services | $1,027 | $1,042 | $1,288 |
| Median household income | $63,328 | $63,726 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 30 | 25 |
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
- 61 chain location
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 3The 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 freestanding emergency and urgent care centers in the Bowling Green metro 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 Bowling Green metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 197,180+9.5% since 2020
- Households
- 73,344
- Median age
- 36.9
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 61%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 1,614 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 116
- Median household income
- $63,328+27.4% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $85,606
- Median home value
- $233,700
- Jobs located here
- 78,351
- Daytime population
- 187,870Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Kentucky market ranked →The highest-scoring metro areas in Kentucky for urgent care and walk-in clinics, numbered among those based in Kentucky (a market based in another state is listed without a number), with the Bowling Green metro area marked.
Top metro areas in Kentucky
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN | 63 | 55 | 0.6 | $23.5M | +2.7% | #48 of 197 |
| Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH | 52 | 5 | 0.3 | $31.7M | −2.6% | #90 of 197 |
| Clarksville, TN-KY | 51 | 7 | 0.6 | $18.7M | +8.5% | #96 of 197 |
| 1Lexington-Fayette, KY | 39 | 13 | 0.6 | $18.6M | +3.4% | #143 of 197 |
| 2Bowling Green, KY | 30 | 6 | 0.8 | $12.6M | +9.5% | #169 of 197 |
| 3Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN | 29 | 43 | 0.8 | $15.2M | +2.9% | #171 of 197 |
| 4Elizabethtown, KY | 17 | 6 | 1.2 | $8.9M | +2.4% | #193 of 197 |
Other business types in the Bowling Green metro 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
Fitness and classes
Health care
- Doctors, dentists and clinics57
- Dentists and orthodontists50
- Primary care and pediatrics55
- Urgent care and walk-in clinics30
- Chiropractors50
- Physical therapy44
- Optometrists and eye care65
Child care
Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many urgent care and walk-in clinics are in the Bowling Green, KY metro area?
There are 6 urgent care and walk-in clinics on map listings in the Bowling Green metro area as of September 2026. One of them (17%) is a chain location. The listings count urgent care and walk-in clinics. No official count is published for freestanding emergency and urgent care centers in the Bowling Green metro area: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in the Bowling Green, KY metro area spend on medical and dental services?
About $75.3M a year, or $1,027 per household. That is 20% below the U.S. average (an index of 80, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 6 urgent care and walk-in clinics on map listings, it comes to $12.6M per clinic. The spending figure covers all medical and dental services, not only urgent care and walk-in clinics. It is estimated from the incomes of the 73,344 households in the Bowling Green metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Bowling Green, KY metro area compare with the U.S. for urgent care and walk-in clinics?
The Bowling Green metro area has 0.8 urgent care and walk-in clinics per 10,000 households, 60% above the U.S. rate of 0.5. Spending per clinic is $12.6M, 49% below the U.S. figure of $24.5M. At the national ratio of urgent care and walk-in clinics to household spending, the Bowling Green metro area would have about 3, against 6 on map listings.
How fast is the Bowling Green, KY metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Bowling Green metro area at 197,180 people in 2025, up 9.5% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 73,344 households. The median household income in the Bowling Green metro area is $63,328 a year, 22% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 27.4% 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. The Bowling Green metro area scores 30 for urgent care and walk-in clinics (lower middle), #169 of 197 scored metro areas.
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