Philadelphia 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 (USD). Data current through 13 July 2026; source observations are collected on a rolling basis.
692 providers on the platforms we track. Median haircut $40; the highest venue-menu medians sit in University City ($60). 99% of tracked providers are linked to one visible location; 2 operator groups run more than one.
692 platform-visible providers·11,417 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
4,335 beauty venues are visible in Philadelphia
Three layers, cross-referenced against public map listings: the physical market (4,335 visible venues), the online-bookable slice, and the supply Google does not list at all. tallywire tracks 692 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.
4,335
venues visible on the map
692
bookable with priced menus (ours)
56%
no website listed on the map
13.4%
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)
Booksy
2.8%
Glossgenius
1.9%
Vagaro
1.2%
Fresha
0.8%
Styleseat
0.3%
Setmore
0.3%
Squire
0.1%
Other / unattributed
0.1%
18 operator groups run 3+ locations here, together holding just 1.9% of the visible market (largest service chain: Hair Cuttery, 16 locations). Retail service counters (Charlotte Tilbury ×5 and peers, 8 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.
99% single-site (one visible location)
of 692 platform-visible providers in the current dataset. 2 operator groups run more than one location; together they hold 5 locations (1% of tracked supply).
Largest operator groupslocations
Philly blends3 locations
All about glamour2 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. University City leads at $60; South Philly anchors the value tier at $41.
University City
$60 n=108
Northern Liberties
$52 n=24
Manayunk
$50 n=101
Fishtown
$45 n=261
Center City
$45 n=32
South Philly
$41 n=32
Real venues, as a target list
12 of 692 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
TouchedbymooFishtown · Large triangle parts
7
—
$115
booksy
Love 2 KolorUniversity City · Silk Press
24
5.0★ · 46
$100
booksy
Confidence Within Beauty StudioFishtown · Highlights
4
—
$80
booksy
Luxe Katur LashesUniversity City · Fullset Classic Eyelash Extensions
10
—
$65
booksy
Simply Beautiful Hair SalonManayunk · Basic Braid style no design
27
5.0★ · 242
$65
booksy
MalDaBarberUniversity City · Men’s Curly top /fade sides n beard w en
Wax Hair Wax There spa & body treatmentsManayunk · Detox Sauna blanket
44
5.0★ · 476
$50
fresha
HairFishtown · Color base
8
—
$40
booksy
Joelito_barberFishtown · Regular Haircut Includes Eyebrows
14
5.0★ · 222
$40
booksy
Philly barber DaveManayunk · ADULT SHAPE UP + BEARD
17
5.0★ · 52
$30
booksy
MarkusFishtown · Haircut
3
5.0★ · 90
$30
booksy
Beauty pricing benchmark, Philadelphia
Median list price per treatment with the interquartile range and sample size, across Booksy, Fresha, one canonical computation.
Treatmentmedian · IQR · n
Balayage
$197
$177–248 · n=46
Highlights
$140
$85–188 · n=179
Massage
$80
$45–135 · n=67
Color
$70
$40–130 · n=576
Facial
$70
$40–105 · n=172
Lash extensions
$65
$31–100 · n=214
Blowout
$53
$40–100 · n=227
Haircut
$40
$30–55 · n=1,692
Gel manicure
$38
$25–55 · n=294
Brows
$25
$15–50 · n=329
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.
Treatmentspread · by platform
Balayage
1.3×
Fresha $197 · Booksy $250
Highlights
1.1×
Booksy $140 · Fresha $148
Color
1.3×
Booksy $65 · Fresha $82
Blowout
1.4×
Booksy $45 · Fresha $65
Haircut
1.1×
Booksy $40 · Fresha $45
How Philadelphia compares
Median haircut across United States metros, native USD. Cross-currency comparison uses the USD index, elsewhere.
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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 USD. 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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