Booking software in Iowa

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Iowa by the numbers

In Iowa, 796 beauty salons and 28 barber shops had at least one paid employee in 2023 (County Business Patterns 2023). Per 100,000 residents that is 24.7 salons, 19th of 51, and 0.9 barbershops, 50th of 51. Maryland sits closest to Iowa on salon density, at 23.8.

Polk County led Iowa with 192 employer beauty salons, ahead of Linn County (58), Scott County (57), Johnson County (47) and Black Hawk County (29). Polk County had the most barber shops, 10. County Business Patterns publishes a barber shop row for 4 of the 99 Iowa counties; the rest have none in its county file.

Iowa's 398 fitness and recreational sports centers work out to 12.4 per 100,000 residents, 26th of 51. Offices of dentists numbered 1,030 (32.0 per 100,000), closest to Wisconsin on that rate. The Census code that includes day spas, other personal care services, had 219 establishments, and the code that includes massage therapists' offices, all other miscellaneous health practitioners, had 255.

The Census Bureau population estimate for Iowa was 3,241,488 on July 1, 2024, up 1.6 percent from the April 2020 base of 3,190,546 and 32nd among the 50 states and DC. Nearest in size is Nevada, with 3,267,467 people, 656 salons and 64 barber shops.

BookAndGo has city pages for Des Moines. In County Business Patterns 2023, the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro had 74 offices of all other miscellaneous health practitioners and 121 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 Iowa's 2,726 is a floor: chair renters, solo therapists and trainers with no payroll sit outside it.

Ranked on beauty salons, Iowa (24.7 per 100,000) sits between Minnesota (26.4) and Maryland (23.8). On the code holding massage therapists' offices, Iowa (7.9 per 100,000) sits between Illinois (7.9) and Missouri (7.9).

Iowa on two more rates: barber shops 0.9 per 100,000 (50th; neighbors South Dakota 0.9 and Wyoming 0.9); other personal care services establishments 6.8 per 100,000 (43rd; neighbors District of Columbia 6.8 and Kentucky 6.7).

County leaders for fitness and recreational sports centers were Polk County 89, Linn County 35 and Scott County 32; for offices of dentists, Polk County 175, Linn County 86 and Scott County 65; for other personal care services, Polk County 66 and Linn County 25.

Among Iowa's 219 other personal care services establishments, 133 (61 percent) had fewer than five staff, against 172 of 398 fitness and recreational sports centers and 327 of 1,030 dentists' offices.

City pages in Iowa

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