Booking software for barbershops in Atlanta

Atlanta's metro is built from twenty-nine counties, the most of any in this set, and it held 150 employer barber shops in 2023. About 82 percent had fewer than five staff. With beauty salons outnumbering employer barbershops by roughly twelve to one, the barbershop figure is clearly an undercount of the trade, since independent barbers without payroll are not in it. For those independent barbers, a booking page of their own is often the whole front desk. Fulton, Gwinnett and Cobb between them hold exactly 100 of the 150, which leaves 50 shops spread over the other twenty-six counties. Outside that core, a barbershop with employees is a rarer thing, and the clients it serves may have very few nearby options.

Census builds the Atlanta metro from twenty-nine counties, so think of these as regional figures rather than a city count. There were 1,862 beauty salons with employees in the same metro, about 12.4 for every barbershop on the list. Part of that gap is how barbering works: CBP only counts establishments with paid employees, so a barber who rents a chair or works alone with no payroll does not show up.

Fulton County led with 52, ahead of Gwinnett County (26) and Cobb County (22). Fulton County alone holds 35 percent of the metro total. Sorted by staff numbers, 123 had under five staff, 12 had five to nine, 15 had ten to nineteen. Census does not publish every size class for this metro, so the classes shown may not add up to the total. Of the 20 most populous metros, the closest count to Atlanta's 150 is Boston's 142. Against the metro's 2023 population estimate of 6,336,015, that is about 2.4 per 100,000 residents, 15 of 20 on that measure.

Georgia uses one board for both trades: the Georgia State Board of Cosmetology and Barbers regulates barbering and the practice of cosmetology in the state.