Booking software for hair salons in Houston

The Houston metro had 1,516 employer beauty salons, with roughly twelve and a half salons for every employer barbershop. About two thirds are under five staff, and 158 fall between ten and nineteen, a solid band of mid-sized teams. Ten counties make up the metro, so many of these salons draw clients from well outside the city, and an online booking page saves those clients a phone call to find out whether a time is open.

The figures cover all ten counties in the Census definition of the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX metro, from Austin County and Brazoria County to Chambers County, not just the city itself. For comparison, the same area had 119 employer barbershops, roughly one for every 13 salons. Because CBP covers only establishments with paid employees, a stylist renting a booth or working alone is not in the salon count.

County by county, Harris County had 997, Fort Bend County 224 and Montgomery County 148. Harris County alone holds 66 percent of the metro total. By size, 1,022 had under five staff, 269 had five to nine, 158 had ten to nineteen, 57 had twenty to forty-nine, 7 had fifty to ninety-nine. Houston's 1,516 sits nearest to Seattle, which had 1,418. Set against 7,598,011 residents in the 2023 estimate, it works out to roughly 20.0 per 100,000 people, ranking 19 of 20. For other TX metros in the top 20 the counts were Dallas-Fort Worth 1,791.

Houston salons answer to TDLR's barbering and cosmetology program. Its rules are about health, safety and sanitation, written to prevent cuts, burns, infections and contagious disease.