Booking software in Illinois

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Illinois by the numbers

Illinois had 294 employer barber shops and 3,346 employer beauty salons in 2023, by County Business Patterns. Against the Census Bureau population estimate of 12,642,259 for July 2023, that is 2.3 barbershops and 26.5 salons per 100,000 residents. The salon figure ranks 17th of 51, and the barber figure 13th.

Cook County led Illinois with 1,535 employer beauty salons, ahead of DuPage County (391), Lake County (252), Will County (211) and Kane County (160). Cook County had the most barber shops, 161. County Business Patterns publishes a barber shop row for 11 of the 102 Illinois 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: Illinois had 1,135, or 9.0 per 100,000. Massage therapists' offices sit inside offices of all other miscellaneous health practitioners (621399), which also covers other practitioners; Illinois had 1,002. There were 5,781 offices of dentists, 8th on dentists per resident, and 1,621 fitness and recreational sports centers, 22nd on that measure.

The Census Bureau population estimate for Illinois was 12,710,158 on July 1, 2024, down 0.9 percent from the April 2020 base of 12,821,814 and 6th among the 50 states and DC. Nearest in size is Pennsylvania, with 13,078,751 people, 4,846 salons and 301 barber shops.

BookAndGo has city pages for Chicago. In County Business Patterns 2023, the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro had 271 barber shops and 2,935 beauty salons. Metro figures cover every county in the Census metro definition, including any across a state line.

All 13,179 Illinois 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 Illinois count runs higher.

On offices of dentists, Illinois (45.7 per 100,000) sits between Washington (46.2) and Massachusetts (45.1). On fitness and recreational sports centers, Illinois (12.8 per 100,000) sits between Minnesota (13.0) and New York (12.7).

Illinois on two more rates: beauty salons 26.5 per 100,000 (17th; neighbors Delaware 26.7 and Minnesota 26.4); miscellaneous health practitioner offices 7.9 per 100,000 (37th; neighbors Minnesota 8.3 and Iowa 7.9).

Dentists' offices in Illinois concentrate in Cook County 2,725, DuPage County 721 and Lake County 404. Fitness and recreational sports centers: Cook County 632, DuPage County 199 and Lake County 141. Other personal care services: Cook County 537 and DuPage County 143.

By size, 659 Illinois fitness and recreational sports centers (41 percent) and 813 offices of miscellaneous health practitioners (81 percent) had a payroll of four or fewer people; for dentists' offices it was 2,594.

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