Booking software in Alaska

Each team member gets their own calendar and availability settings, and services can be linked to the providers who offer them. Clients enter their name, email and phone number when they book, with no account to create, and returning clients are recognized automatically.

Alaska by the numbers

Alaska had 14 employer barber shops and 143 employer beauty salons in 2023, by County Business Patterns. Against the Census Bureau population estimate of 736,510 for July 2023, that is 1.9 barbershops and 19.4 salons per 100,000 residents. The salon figure ranks 39th of 51, and the barber figure 25th.

Anchorage Municipality led Alaska with 62 employer beauty salons, ahead of Matanuska-Susitna Borough (23), Fairbanks North Star Borough (22), Kenai Peninsula Borough (18) and Juneau City and Borough (8). Anchorage Municipality had the most barber shops, 7. County Business Patterns publishes a barber shop row for 2 of the 30 Alaska counties; the rest have none in its county file.

Day spas and massage wellness spas are counted under other personal care services (NAICS 812199), a broader code: Alaska had 69, or 9.4 per 100,000. Massage therapists' offices sit inside offices of all other miscellaneous health practitioners (621399), which also covers other practitioners; Alaska had 117. There were 315 offices of dentists, 13th on dentists per resident, and 91 fitness and recreational sports centers, 27th on that measure.

The Census Bureau population estimate for Alaska was 740,133 on July 1, 2024, up 0.9 percent from the April 2020 base of 733,395 and 48th among the 50 states and DC. Nearest in size is District of Columbia, with 702,250 people, 154 salons and 15 barber shops.

BookAndGo has city pages for Anchorage. In County Business Patterns 2023, the Anchorage, AK metro had 73 offices of all other miscellaneous health practitioners and 52 fitness and recreational sports centers. Metro figures cover every county in the Census metro definition, including any across a state line.

All 749 Alaska establishments above have at least one paid employee; CBP 2023 leaves out the solo barbers, stylists and trainers who work with no payroll, so the true Alaska count runs higher.

On offices of dentists, Alaska (42.8 per 100,000) sits between Connecticut (44.6) and New Hampshire (41.8). On fitness and recreational sports centers, Alaska (12.4 per 100,000) sits between Iowa (12.4) and Florida (12.2).

Alaska on two more rates: beauty salons 19.4 per 100,000 (39th; neighbors South Carolina 19.5 and Oregon 18.8); miscellaneous health practitioner offices 15.9 per 100,000 (11th; neighbors Utah 16.0 and Nevada 14.1).

Dentists' offices in Alaska concentrate in Anchorage Municipality 152, Matanuska-Susitna Borough 52 and Fairbanks North Star Borough 44. Fitness and recreational sports centers: Anchorage Municipality 42, Fairbanks North Star Borough 15 and Kenai Peninsula Borough 10. Other personal care services: Anchorage Municipality 39 and Fairbanks North Star Borough 10.

By size, 38 Alaska fitness and recreational sports centers (42 percent) and 88 offices of miscellaneous health practitioners (75 percent) had a payroll of four or fewer people; for dentists' offices it was 93.

City pages in Alaska

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