Booking software for barbershops in Riverside

Riverside and San Bernardino counties cover a huge area and held just 71 employer barber shops in 2023, 1.5 per 100,000 residents, the lowest density of the twenty along with San Francisco. Most were small. In a region this spread out, many barbers serve clients who drive in from some distance, and an email reminder before the appointment helps make sure that drive actually happens.

Those counts are for the full Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro, made up of Riverside and San Bernardino counties. The same data shows 691 beauty salons, or about 9.7 per barbershop. Keep in mind that County Business Patterns covers only establishments with paid employees, and plenty of barbers work as one-person businesses. That places Riverside-San Bernardino 19 of the 20 most populous US metros by barber shops count.

Riverside County had 40 and San Bernardino County had 31, so Riverside County holds 56 percent of the metro total. By headcount, 54 had under five staff, 11 had five to nine, 3 had ten to nineteen, 3 had twenty to forty-nine. Of the 20 most populous metros, the closest count to Riverside-San Bernardino's 71 is San Francisco Bay's 70. Elsewhere in CA: Los Angeles 235, San Francisco Bay 70, San Diego 81.

California set up a single board for both trades in 1992, when the Board of Barber Examiners and the Board of Cosmetology merged into today's Board of Barbering and Cosmetology, so Inland Empire barbers deal with the same regulator as the salon down the street.