Booking software for hair salons in Orlando

The Orlando metro counted 854 employer beauty salons, with salons outnumbering barbershops by about seven to one, one of the narrowest ratios in the twenty, after New York's. Seventy-seven percent had fewer than five staff, and 92 had ten to nineteen, more than the 74 with five to nine. That uneven shape suggests a group of noticeably larger salons alongside many small ones, both of which need a calendar the whole team can see.

The figures cover the whole metro as the Census Bureau draws it, which is four counties: Lake County, Orange County, Osceola County and Seminole County. For comparison, the same area had 120 employer barbershops, roughly one for every 7 salons. Because CBP covers only establishments with paid employees, a stylist renting a booth or working alone is not in the salon count. By establishment count it ranks 18 among the 20 most populous US metros.

County by county, Orange County had 474, Seminole County 203 and Lake County 93. Orange County alone holds 56 percent of the metro total. By size, 657 had under five staff, 74 had five to nine, 92 had ten to nineteen, 29 had twenty to forty-nine. Orlando's 854 sits nearest to San Diego, which had 847. Set against 2,864,544 residents in the 2023 estimate, it works out to roughly 29.8 per 100,000 people, ranking 10 of 20. For other FL metros in the top 20 the counts were Miami 2,590, Tampa Bay 1,140.

Florida's cosmetology law includes a section headed cosmetology services to be performed in licensed salon, with exceptions, which is worth knowing before you book anything off the premises.