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Urgent care and walk-in clinics in Shelby County, KY
How Shelby County, KY compares with other counties and the U.S. for urgent care and walk-in clinics: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 1.
- Listings
- 1
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $21.3M
- On medical and dental services · $1,155 a household
- Spending per listing
- $21.3M
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 0.5
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 51,243
- +6.2% since 2020
See the urgent care and walk-in clinics around any address in Shelby County
The site report maps the urgent care and walk-in clinics on map listings near the address, by name and distance, and sizes the households and spending around it. Or open the report at the center of Shelby County. Signed out, you see a blurred preview; on an account, each report is one action.
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 1 urgent care or walk-in clinic in Shelby County. That is 0.5 per 10,000 households.
Household spending on medical and dental services in Shelby County comes to about $21.3M a year: $1,155 per household, 10% below the U.S. average. That works out to $21.3M per clinic. 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 Shelby County: counts under 3 aren’t published.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Shelby County grew 6.2%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). With 1 urgent care or walk-in clinic on map listings, Shelby County isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How Shelby County 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 | Shelby County | Kentucky | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| Spending per listing | $21.3M | $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 | +6.2% | +2.2% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on medical and dental services | $1,155 | $1,042 | $1,288 |
| Median household income | $82,604 | $63,726 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 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
- 10 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 1The 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 Shelby 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 Shelby County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 51,243+6.2% since 2020
- Households
- 18,484
- Median age
- 41.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 74%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 380 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 129
- Median household income
- $82,604+23.2% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $104,252
- Median home value
- $304,800
- Jobs located here
- 16,455
- Daytime population
- 41,644Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
Looking at a specific site in Shelby County?
These figures cover the whole county. A site report draws rings around one address and counts what’s inside them: households, spending, jobs, and the urgent care and walk-in clinics on map listings by name and distance.
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Top counties in Kentucky
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Fayette County, KY | 33 | 9 | 0.6 | $17.3M | +2.2% | #262 of 325 |
| 2Warren County, KY | 33 | 5 | 0.9 | $11.7M | +10.6% | #263 of 325 |
| 3Jefferson County, KY | 25 | 24 | 0.7 | $15.1M | +1.6% | #299 of 325 |
| 4Hardin County, KY | 16 | 6 | 1.3 | $7.9M | +2.4% | #320 of 325 |
| Shelby County, KY | Not scored | 1 | 0.5 | $21.3M | +6.2% |
Other business types in Shelby 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
Fitness and classes
Health care
- Doctors, dentists and clinics32
- Dentists and orthodontists39
- Primary care and pediatrics35
- Urgent care and walk-in clinics
- Chiropractors69
- Physical therapy43
- Optometrists and eye care58
Child care
Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many urgent care and walk-in clinics are in Shelby County, KY?
There is 1 urgent care or walk-in clinic on map listings in Shelby County as of September 2026. The listings count urgent care and walk-in clinics. No official count is published for freestanding emergency and urgent care centers in Shelby County: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in Shelby County, KY spend on medical and dental services?
About $21.3M a year, or $1,155 per household. That is 10% below the U.S. average (an index of 90, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1 urgent care or walk-in clinic on map listings, it comes to $21.3M 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 18,484 households in Shelby County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Shelby County, KY compare with the U.S. for urgent care and walk-in clinics?
Shelby County has 1 urgent care or walk-in clinic on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. The count on map listings matches the U.S. ratio of urgent care and walk-in clinics to household spending.
How fast is Shelby County, KY growing?
Population estimates put Shelby County at 51,243 people in 2025, up 6.2% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 18,484 households. The median household income in Shelby County is $82,604 a year, 2% above the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 23.2% 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. Shelby County has no market score for urgent care and walk-in clinics: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 1.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
Run a Groundwork site report on an address in Shelby County. It maps the urgent care and walk-in clinics on map listings near the site and sizes the households and spending within the distance you choose. New accounts get 10 actions over 3 days, no card.
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