Booking software for barbershops in Denver

Denver's ten-county metro had 102 employer barber shops, and they run large for barbering: only 56 percent had fewer than five staff, while 19 had ten to nineteen and 9 had twenty to forty-nine. At 3.4 per 100,000 residents it is also above the middle on density. Shops with that many barbers need each one on the calendar as their own provider, so clients can follow a barber they like. Denver County had 34 of those shops, Arapahoe 23 and Jefferson 21, so the trade is spread across the core counties rather than packed into one.

The figures cover all ten counties in the Census definition of the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO metro, from Adams County and Arapahoe County to Broomfield County, not just the city itself. Set that against 1,181 employer beauty salons in the same area, roughly 11.6 salons per barbershop. CBP counts only establishments with paid employees, so chair renters and solo barbers without staff are missing from the barbershop figure, which makes it a floor rather than a ceiling. That places Denver 16 of the 20 most populous US metros by barber shops count.

County by county, Denver County had 34, Arapahoe County 23 and Jefferson County 21. Denver County alone holds 33 percent of the metro total. By size, 57 had under five staff, 17 had five to nine, 19 had ten to nineteen, 9 had twenty to forty-nine. Of the 20 most populous metros, the closest count to Denver's 102 is Houston's 119.

Colorado licenses barbers through the Office of Barber and Cosmetology Licensure, part of the Division of Professions and Occupations, at 1560 Broadway in Denver.