Booking software in Michigan

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Michigan by the numbers

Beauty salons with employees numbered 2,170 across Michigan in County Business Patterns 2023, 2.58 percent of the 84,176 counted in the 50 states and DC. Barber shops numbered 188, or 2.41 percent of the national 7,789. Of Michigan's 2,170 salons, 1,369 had a staff of four or fewer.

By county, Oakland County (447), Wayne County (354), Macomb County (229), Kent County (204) and Washtenaw County (93) held the most employer salons in Michigan, 61 percent of the state total between them. For barber shops the leader was Wayne County with 59. The county file publishes a barber shop row for 10 of Michigan's 83 counties or county-equivalents.

Across the six codes closest to the trades BookAndGo serves, Michigan had 8,474 employer establishments in 2023. Beyond salons and barbers, that includes 3,795 offices of dentists, 930 fitness and recreational sports centers, 627 offices of all other miscellaneous health practitioners (the code that holds massage therapists' offices, among others) and 764 other personal care services establishments (the code that holds day spas). Michigan ranks 39th on that last group per resident.

The Census Bureau population estimate for Michigan was 10,140,459 on July 1, 2024, up 0.6 percent from the April 2020 base of 10,079,338 and 10th among the 50 states and DC. Nearest in size is New Jersey, with 9,500,851 people, 3,727 salons and 560 barber shops.

BookAndGo has city pages for Detroit. In County Business Patterns 2023, the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro had 126 barber shops and 1,112 beauty salons. Metro figures cover every county in the Census metro definition, including any across a state line.

All 8,474 Michigan 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 Michigan count runs higher.

On offices of dentists, Michigan (37.6 per 100,000) sits between Texas (38.7) and Nebraska (37.4). On fitness and recreational sports centers, Michigan (9.2 per 100,000) sits between New Mexico (9.5) and Mississippi (8.7).

Michigan on two more rates: beauty salons 21.5 per 100,000 (30th; neighbors Wyoming 21.7 and Maine 20.9); miscellaneous health practitioner offices 6.2 per 100,000 (47th; neighbors Ohio 6.8 and Alabama 6.1).

Dentists' offices in Michigan concentrate in Oakland County 777, Wayne County 584 and Macomb County 406. Fitness and recreational sports centers: Oakland County 199, Wayne County 139 and Macomb County 93. Other personal care services: Oakland County 173 and Wayne County 106.

In Michigan 80 percent of the 627 miscellaneous health practitioner offices had fewer than five employees (499), compared with 25 percent of dentists' offices and 42 percent of fitness and recreational sports centers.

City pages in Michigan

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