Home / Pet care & grooming / New York

Pet care in New York

How many pet care exist per person present (residents + daytime workers) across the 22 New York counties we cover, by ZIP code, compared with the U.S. average. Data: Census ZBP 2023 + ACS 2024 + BLS QCEW.

Includes: Pet grooming · Boarding & kennels · Dog day care · Pet sitting services. Counted together because official statistics use one 812910 code.

State verdict (covered counties): Well below the U.S. rate — 53% of the U.S. rate

Counties covered

in New York

Pet care

699

establishments (2023)

Per 10,000 present

0.3

residents + 0.5×workers

U.S. average

0.6

per 10,000 present

State index

53%

vs. U.S.

Residents

17,237,540

in covered counties

Workers

7,270,619

jobs in covered counties

Coverage. This page aggregates only the 22 New York counties BizGapMap covers — not the whole state. Counts and the index reflect those counties. The aggregate index uses only ZIP cells Census published, so it is a lower bound. Density is a supply-side signal: it counts existing pet care and the people present, not foot traffic, income, rent, or whether locals want more.

Counties in New York

City	County	Pet care	Residents	Workers	Per 10k	Index	Verdict
Saratoga Springs	Saratoga County	20–50	232,531	77,891	0.7	117–292%	Range spans bands
Buffalo	Erie County	66–184	948,221	414,184	0.6	91–233%	Range spans bands
New York	New York County	144–304	1,619,224	2,072,276	0.5	86–111%	Range spans bands
Albany	Albany County	20–104	295,619	175,518	0.5	83–331%	Range spans bands
Melville	Suffolk County	89–269	1,444,016	549,149	0.5	82–239%	Range spans bands
Poughkeepsie	Dutchess County	17–81	300,448	91,489	0.5	78–343%	Range spans bands
East Syracuse	Onondaga County	28–116	473,091	218,807	0.5	76–272%	Range spans bands
Schenectady	Schenectady County	9–37	180,276	47,892	0.4	70–241%	Range spans bands
Rochester	Monroe County	37–121	753,585	345,001	0.4	63–173%	Range spans bands
Kingston	Ulster County	7–115	181,957	44,188	0.3	54–846%	Range spans bands
Brooklyn	Kings County	102–154	2,631,396	741,324	0.3	54–75%	Range spans bands
Garden City	Nassau County	55–181	1,401,387	598,752	0.3	51–152%	Range spans bands
White Plains	Westchester County	30–172	997,782	391,628	0.3	40–215%	Range spans bands
Newburgh	Orange County	9–109	406,298	127,315	0.2	30–320%	Range spans bands
Troy	Rensselaer County	3–61	160,774	46,534	0.2	26–474%	Range spans bands
Staten Island	Richmond County	9–31	494,956	115,038	0.2	26–83%	Range spans bands
Spring Valley	Rockland County	6–58	341,883	127,769	0.1	23–211%	Range spans bands
Utica	Oneida County	4–102	230,321	85,056	0.1	23–534%	Range spans bands
Long Island City	Queens County	38–156	2,320,056	589,818	0.1	23–87%	Range spans bands
Vestal	Broome County	3–49	201,184	68,480	0.1	20–289%	Range spans bands
Lockport	Niagara County	3–47	210,453	57,168	0.1	20–272%	Range spans bands
Bronx	Bronx County	0–50	1,412,082	285,342	0.0	0–51%	Well below average

Scroll the table sideways to see all columns.

Lowest vs. highest measured density

Fewest competitors per capita

117%

91%

86%

83%

82%

78%

76%

70%

Most competitors per capita

20%

20%

23%

23%

23%

26%

26%

Low measured density is not evidence of opportunity. A county with few pet care may simply lack foot traffic, retail space, or demand. Use the ranking to find where to look, then verify locally.

← All Pet care & grooming markets nationwide · Methodology · Data sources

Check a ZIP or city · Search by radius · Answers · Data story · Methodology · Data sources · About · Privacy · Terms · Updates (RSS)

BizGapMap — free, no-login small-business saturation reports for major U.S. counties. Built entirely from public U.S. Census, BLS, and IRS data (ZBP 2023, ACS 2024 5-year, PEP 2024, LODES, QCEW, IRS SOI). No forecasts, no revenue guesses — withheld cells are marked, and the few derived counts are labelled as estimates.