Booking software in Alabama

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Alabama by the numbers

County Business Patterns 2023 counted 740 beauty salons and 55 barber shops with paid employees in Alabama, so Alabama had about 13.5 salons for every barbershop, 17th highest on that ratio among the 50 states and DC. 67 percent of Alabama's employer salons had fewer than five people on payroll, as did 69 percent of its barber shops.

By county, Jefferson County (149), Madison County (88), Mobile County (69), Shelby County (56) and Baldwin County (51) held the most employer salons in Alabama, 56 percent of the state total between them. For barber shops the leader was Jefferson County with 13. The county file publishes a barber shop row for 8 of Alabama's 67 counties or county-equivalents.

Day spas and massage wellness spas are counted under other personal care services (NAICS 812199), a broader code: Alabama had 259, or 5.1 per 100,000. Massage therapists' offices sit inside offices of all other miscellaneous health practitioners (621399), which also covers other practitioners; Alabama had 313. There were 1,402 offices of dentists, 50th on dentists per resident, and 495 fitness and recreational sports centers, 44th on that measure.

The Census Bureau population estimate for Alabama was 5,157,699 on July 1, 2024, up 2.6 percent from the April 2020 base of 5,025,369 and 24th among the 50 states and DC. Nearest in size is South Carolina, with 5,478,831 people, 1,052 salons and 98 barber shops.

BookAndGo has city pages for Birmingham. In County Business Patterns 2023, the Birmingham, AL metro had 68 offices of all other miscellaneous health practitioners and 151 fitness and recreational sports centers. Metro figures cover every county in the Census metro definition, including any across a state line.

County Business Patterns counts only establishments with paid employees, so Alabama's 3,264 is a floor: chair renters, solo therapists and trainers with no payroll sit outside it.

Ranked on beauty salons, Alabama (14.5 per 100,000) sits between Arkansas (14.8) and Mississippi (10.3). On the code holding massage therapists' offices, Alabama (6.1 per 100,000) sits between Michigan (6.2) and Pennsylvania (5.9).

Alabama on two more rates: barber shops 1.1 per 100,000 (45th; neighbors Arkansas 1.2 and Kentucky 1.0); other personal care services establishments 5.1 per 100,000 (49th; neighbors New Mexico 5.7 and West Virginia 4.5).

County leaders for fitness and recreational sports centers were Jefferson County 95, Madison County 68 and Mobile County 46; for offices of dentists, Jefferson County 253, Madison County 153 and Mobile County 104; for other personal care services, Jefferson County 50 and Madison County 32.

Under five employees: 378 of 1,402 dentists' offices (27 percent), 226 of 495 fitness and recreational sports centers (46 percent) and 157 of 259 other personal care services establishments (61 percent).

City pages in Alabama

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