Search every licensed beauty establishment in Los Angeles and Orange County by ZIP code, city, or radius. Built on California Department of Consumer Affairs licensing data, refreshed twice a year.
This tool reads from the California Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) public licensing export, filtered to Los Angeles and Orange counties as of May 1, 2026. Every record is a state-issued establishment license — the legal credential a salon, barbershop, or spa needs to operate in California.
The dataset includes 21,496 establishment licenses across the two counties. 17,370 are currently active. About 4,100 are delinquent on renewal. Delinquent locations show up in search results with a flag so you can tell whether a salon is still in good standing. What it doesn't include: individual cosmetologist, esthetician, manicurist, and barber license records. The state redacts home addresses for individual licensees, so the location data is establishment-only.
Suite-building flag. When a salon sits inside a Sola, Phenix, Salon Republic, Salon Lofts, or similar suite-rental building, the tool marks it with a Suite badge. Detection uses brand-name evidence at the building level, so strip-mall and shopping-center addresses aren't false-flagged.
By ZIP code Type any 5-digit LA or Orange County ZIP. You'll see the salon count, active vs. delinquent breakdown, new licenses issued in the last 24 months, and a sortable list of every business at that ZIP with address, license year, status, and a "View on map" link
By city Type a city name (Anaheim, Long Beach, Whittier, etc.). The tool rolls up every ZIP in that city, totals the counts, and lists individual salons drawn from across those ZIPs. Click any ZIP pill to drill in.
By radius Enter a center ZIP and pick a radius — 3, 5, 10, 15, or 25 miles. Useful for evaluating commute zones, lease territories, or competitive footprint around an existing salon.
Export anythingThe "⬇ CSV" button on any view downloads the full sorted salon list for that scope — name, ZIP, city, address, status, license year, suite flag, and a pre-built Google Maps URL per row.
This tool answers the "where" question. For the "why" — what's behind the post-pandemic salon boom, where the growth is concentrated, and what the salon-suite trend means for the market — read the full analysis.
How Many Beauty Salons Are in LA and Orange County? (2026) 11-minute read · ZIP-by-ZIP rankings, growth corridors, the salon-suite trend, and what it means for the industry.
Researchers, journalists, and trade-press writers are welcome to use these numbers with attribution.
Suggested citation: Beyond 21st Century Beauty Academy. LA + OC Beauty Salon Finder. Santa Fe Springs, CA. Retrieved [date] from https://www.beyondcosmo.com/tools/la-oc-salon-finder.
For data licensing details, the underlying source: California Department of Consumer Affairs, Board of Barbering and Cosmetology. Public licensee database export, May 1, 2026. Available at dca.ca.gov
Source: California Department of Consumer Affairs, Board of Barbering and Cosmetology, public license export dated May 1, 2026.
Geographic filter: Records where County = "Los Angeles" or "Orange." Establishments with blank county fields (typically inactive or closed records) are excluded.
License types included: Establishment, Barber Shop, Mobile Unit, and Chain Establishment. Individual licensee records (Cosmetologist, Esthetician, Manicurist, Barber, Electrologist, Apprentice) are excluded from this tool because the state redacts individual addresses.ZIP code: Truncated to the first 5 digits.
License Status field: "Current" = active and renewed. "Delinquent" = past renewal date but not formally closed. "CurrentInactive" = active inactive status (rare).
"New" license counts: Based on the Original Issue Date field. An original issue may reflect a new physical location or a new ownership entity at an existing address. We don't distinguish between the two in the new-license counts.
Salon-suite flag: An address is marked as a suite building when (1) at least one establishment at that address has a name containing a recognized suite brand (Sola Salon Studios, Phenix Salon Suites, Salon Republic, Salon Lofts, MY Salon Suite, Salons by JC, Salon Studios, Salon Row, Luxx Loft, Image Studios, and similar), and (2) the address has five or more licensed establishments. The two-condition rule prevents false positives at strip malls and shopping centers where multiple independent salons happen to share an address.
Refresh cadence: Twice a year (May and November releases).
This dataset reflects the California DCA public export dated May 1, 2026.
Beyond 21st Century Beauty Academy is a state-approved beauty school in Santa Fe Springs, California, training licensed cosmetologists, estheticians, and manicurists since 1997. We built this tool as a free industry resource. Visit our main site to learn more about the school.
