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As of 4 November 2026, 4,512 hair & grooming salons companies are based in Australia; 17 are hiring right now and Melbourne has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 4,512
- Hiring now
- 17 · 0 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Hair salons · 3,381
- Top city
- Melbourne · 67
- Parent market
- Consumer services & leisure · 91,560
Hair & grooming salons in Australia, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Hair salons | 3,381 | 75% |
| Barbershops | 758 | 17% |
| Mobile freelance hairdressers | 215 | 5% |
| Other hair & grooming salons | 106 | 2% |
| Makeup artists | 97 | 2% |
| Beauty salons general | 89 | 2% |
| Lash brow studios | 74 | 2% |
| Hair loss treatment clinics | 28 | 1% |
| Other beauty & aesthetic treatment | 23 | 1% |
| Laser skin clinics | 15 | 0% |
| Waxing & sugaring studios | 15 | 0% |
| Permanent makeup studios | 10 | 0% |
| Personal stylists image consultants | 10 | 0% |
| Beauty training academies | 8 | 0% |
| Massage wellness practices | 7 | 0% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 1,135 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 3,327 · 12 |
| 11-50 employees | 41 · 2 |
| 51-200 employees | 7 · 2 |
| 501-1000 employees | 1 · 1 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 1 · 0 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Melbourne | 67 | 1% |
| Haymarket | 38 | 1% |
| Perth | 34 | 1% |
| Sydney | 22 | 0% |
| Drayton | 20 | 0% |
| Brinsmead | 19 | 0% |
| Camberwell | 18 | 0% |
| Darlinghurst | 17 | 0% |
| Surry Hills | 17 | 0% |
| Southport | 16 | 0% |
| West End | 14 | 0% |
| Adelaide | 12 | 0% |
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The stack of hair & grooming salons in Australia
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4,512 hair & grooming salons companies are based in Australia; 17 are hiring right now and Melbourne has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/consumer_services_leisure/australia/hair_and_grooming_salons)
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- ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
- Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
- HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
Hair & grooming salons in Australia: questions
How many hair & grooming salons companies are there in Australia?
4,512 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.
What is a sub-vertical?
The middle level of our industry tree: Consumer services & leisure → Hair & grooming salons → leaf niches such as hair salons, barbershops, mobile freelance hairdressers. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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