Toronto beauty-services market: salons, prices and operator concentration
Who is here, where they cluster, how they price, and how fragmented it is: the read a buyer needs before a deal. Native pricing (CAD). Data current through 13 July 2026; source observations are collected on a rolling basis.
770 providers on the platforms we track. Median haircut C$50; the highest venue-menu medians sit in North York (C$70). 97% of tracked providers are linked to one visible location; 10 operator groups run more than one.
770 platform-visible providers·18,834 priced service observations·2 covered platforms
Where the market is
Platform-visible beauty providers, mapped
Each dot is one platform-visible venue, placed by coordinates. Hover for the venue and its median list price. The clustering is the density-and-positioning read an acquirer starts from.
each dot = one platform-visible beauty venue with a priced menu · hover for venue and median price
The physical market, in context
4,446 beauty venues are visible in Toronto
Three layers, cross-referenced against public map listings: the physical market (4,446 visible venues), the online-bookable slice, and the supply Google does not list at all. tallywire tracks 770 bookable providers with full priced menus, roughly a third of which have no map listing of their own (solo pros, chair renters, mobile): supply only the booking platforms can see.
4,446
venues visible on the map
770
bookable with priced menus (ours)
42%
no website listed on the map
17.8%
listings marked permanently closed
Who offers online booking (7.6% of map-visible listings are matched to a covered booking platform; bars scaled ×6 for readability)
Fresha
4.0%
Setmore
1.2%
Vagaro
0.9%
Booksy
0.8%
Squire
0.4%
Mindbody
0.1%
Other / unattributed
0.2%
21 operator groups run 3+ locations here, together holding just 2.6% of the visible market (largest service chain: The Ten Spot, 13 locations). Retail service counters (Benefit Cosmetics Browbar ×10 and peers, 18 listings) are counted separately — a beauty counter is not a salon.
Operators on tracked platforms
Who runs more than one location
The multi-location operator groups visible on the booking platforms we track (grouped by normalized brand): the names an acquirer or expanding chain meets first. Operators on enterprise salon software (Zenoti, Boulevard, Phorest) are not yet tracked, so shares are measured on platform-visible supply.
97% single-site (one visible location)
of 770 platform-visible providers in the current dataset. 10 operator groups run more than one location; together they hold 23 locations (3% of tracked supply).
Largest operator groupslocations
Prayosha Threading & Wax Bar - Bathurst st.5 locations
Ako barbershop (Esplanade Location)2 locations
Gatsby Studio Salon and Spa (Square One Mall )2 locations
Glossix - LANSDOWNE & Bloor2 locations
MDRN Barbershop - Manning2 locations
Michxbeauty (Downtown)2 locations
Median listed menu price by area
Venue-level menu medians by area (venues assigned to the nearest district). Service mix affects area comparisons; treat this as a listed-price map, not an affluence ranking. North York leads at C$70; Downtown anchors the value tier at C$40.
North York
C$70 n=167
Yorkville
C$62 n=72
Etobicoke
C$60 n=153
Queen West
C$60 n=54
Scarborough
C$56 n=82
Leslieville
C$52 n=40
Downtown
C$40 n=22
Real venues, as a target list
12 of 770 provider records shown — a spread across price tiers with traction proxies: menu breadth, reviews, a representative service and its published price. The complete current roster ships in the Market File.
Venue · area · serviceservicesrating · reviewspriceplatform
Haircare Pro Salon Academy Shop QewEtobicoke · Full Glam Makeup
22
5.0★ · 578
C$125
fresha
Colette StudioYorkville · Root Touch Up & Blowdry
23
5.0★ · 719
C$120
fresha
North YorkNorth York · Milbon Treatment
26
4.9★ · 2751
C$100
fresha
Locs by JijiYorkville · Wash/Style
24
5.0★ · 717
C$90
fresha
Gaby’s Hair Salon & BarbershopYorkville · 8-10 cornrows (full head)
89
5.0★ · 37
C$85
booksy
Verb SalonNorth York · T-Zone Root Touch-up
28
5.0★ · 807
C$65
fresha
Young Trend Hair Studio Midland FinchScarborough · Oligo hair repairing treatment
Median list price per treatment with the interquartile range and sample size, across Booksy, Fresha, one canonical computation.
Treatmentmedian · IQR · n
Balayage
C$300
C$230–375 · n=205
Highlights
C$209
C$150–285 · n=447
Facial
C$110
C$75–150 · n=610
Lash extensions
C$83
C$40–120 · n=874
Colour
C$80
C$36–135 · n=1,462
Massage
C$68
C$30–105 · n=301
Blow-dry
C$64
C$45–125 · n=497
Haircut
C$50
C$35–75 · n=1,900
Gel manicure
C$50
C$35–68 · n=836
Brows
C$30
C$15–91 · n=1,052
Cross-platform view
How normalized treatment prices vary by platform
Platform-level medians for the same normalized treatment category in the same market. Differences may reflect provider mix as well as platform positioning; the comparison only exists in the joined data.
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Method
Venues placed by provider-published coordinates. Median and percentiles over provider-published list prices across Booksy, Fresha, one canonical computation (n disclosed, outliers excluded). Operator grouping matches venues by normalized brand across distinct postcode districts. Area medians assign each venue to its nearest district centroid. Native CAD. Business and service data only. Coverage: bookable venues on the listed platforms; operators on enterprise salon software and venues without online booking are not yet included, so single-site share is measured on platform-visible supply. Data current through 13 July 2026; source observations are collected on a rolling basis.
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