How many barbers are there in the United States, by state?
Texas has the most barbers at 2,580, and Louisiana the fewest at 40. The median state has 320. Per resident, Washington leads with 15.8 barbers per 100,000 people.
Barbers by state, ranked
| # | State | Barbers (2025) | Per 100,000 residents | With a published email |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texas | 2,580 | 8.9 | 21 |
| 2 | California | 1,390 | 3.5 | 10 |
| 3 | Florida | 1,240 | 5.8 | 51 |
| 4 | Washington | 1,220 | 15.8 | 0 |
| 5 | Missouri | 580 | 9.4 | 6 |
| 6 | Georgia | 550 | 5.1 | 13 |
| 7 | Pennsylvania | 530 | 4.1 | 25 |
| 8 | Colorado | 480 | 8.3 | 4 |
| 9 | Wisconsin | 450 | 7.6 | 0 |
| 10 | Indiana | 370 | 5.5 | 10 |
| 11 | Connecticut | 330 | 9.2 | 1 |
| 12 | North Carolina | 330 | 3.2 | 9 |
| 13 | Utah | 320 | 9.8 | 0 |
| 14 | Minnesota | 260 | 4.6 | 1 |
| 15 | South Carolina | 220 | 4.3 | 6 |
| 16 | Arkansas | 170 | 5.6 | 2 |
| 17 | Oklahoma | 170 | 4.3 | 2 |
| 18 | Virginia | 160 | 1.9 | 64 |
| 19 | Idaho | 130 | 7.1 | 0 |
| 20 | Iowa | 130 | 4.1 | 1 |
| 21 | North Dakota | 80 | 10.3 | 0 |
| 22 | Maine | 50 | 3.7 | 0 |
| 23 | New Mexico | 50 | 2.4 | 0 |
| 24 | Louisiana | 40 | 0.9 | 1 |
27 jurisdiction(s) have no published estimate for this occupation in the 2025 survey (BLS suppresses cells that fail its quality or confidentiality tests).
Per capita
Headcount follows population, so the per-100,000 column is the fairer comparison between states. Top five: Washington (15.8), North Dakota (10.3), Utah (9.8), Missouri (9.4), Connecticut (9.2). Bottom five: Louisiana (0.9), Virginia (1.9), New Mexico (2.4), North Carolina (3.2), California (3.5).
Published business emails
5,470 barbers nationally have a business email address published on a licence register, a practice website or a professional directory, as counted by Email Lists USA's barbers list on October 1, 2026. That is a count of people who publish a work address, not a measure of the profession's size, and it moves with each rebuild of that list.
State pages
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), via api.bls.gov v2, May 2025 estimates for occupation 39-5011 (Barbers), one series per state (for example OEUS480000000000039501101 for Texas), read October 1, 2026. Per-capita denominators: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census resident population. The U.S. figure on this page is the sum of the published state estimates, not a separately published national total.