Business phone system for barber shops in Colorado

How many barber shops operate in Colorado

Colorado had 189 barber shops in 2023, according to Census County Business Patterns (NAICS 812111, Barber Shops). They employed 1,179 people in mid-March and reported $41.9 million in annual payroll. That is the 13th highest count among the 51 states and DC with published figures. Barber shops make up 0.10% of the 182,486 business establishments in the state.

Per 100,000 residents (2024 estimate) Colorado has 3.2 barber shops, 38.5% above the national rate of 2.3. The average establishment has 6.2 employees against 3.7 nationally. Payroll per employee is $35,538, 5.6% above the U.S. figure of $33,667.

Barber shops by metro area in Colorado

Census published barber shop counts for 8 metro or micropolitan areas that include part of Colorado. The largest is Denver, CO, with 102 establishments. Single-state metro and micropolitan areas account for 98% of the statewide total; the rest are outside any published area or in areas Census suppressed.

Team sizes at barber shops in Colorado

58.2% of Colorado's barber shops with employees had fewer than five people in March 2023, compared with 75.5% nationally. 74.6% had fewer than ten. That is the size of team where a missed call usually means nobody was free, not that nobody was on staff.

Why the phone matters for barber shops in Colorado

Barbers are busy with clients all day, and calls for appointments and wait times often go unanswered. Capturing calls and texting back helps fill chairs. That holds for barber shops in Colorado as much as anywhere.

A few of the calls that come in to barber shops in Colorado:

• A client calls about hours.
• A client calls to ask about walk-in wait.
• The shop calls a client about a cancellation.

Calls after closing time

After-hours calls are mostly booking requests.

Callata voicemail is transcribed and triaged for urgency, and business-hours routing decides where calls go once you close.

Phone system pricing for a 6-person barber shop

Barber shops in Colorado average 6.2 employees, so the comparison uses a 6-person team. Priced per seat, 6 users would run $180.00 a month on RingCentral RingEX Core and $149.70 on Ooma Office Pro (month-to-month list prices, checked September 28, 2026). On Callata the same 6 people cost $119.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.

The annual difference against RingCentral's monthly list price comes to $732. Some vendors discount annual contracts; the table shows month-to-month prices.

Area codes in Colorado

Colorado has 6 geographic area codes in service according to NANPA. You can choose local numbers in the area codes your clients know, subject to carrier inventory, or port your current number for free.

How Callata works for barber shops in Colorado

For $99 a month, Callata puts a team of up to 5 on one plan ($20 for each person after that): up to 3 local numbers, unlimited inbound calls, a pooled allowance of 1,500 outbound US and Canada minutes per user, browser and cell calling, voicemail transcription with urgency triage, recorded calls with AI summaries and business-hours routing, with E911 on every number.

If you already have a number in Colorado, porting it to Callata is free. Texting from a local number requires a one-time carrier registration (10DLC, $49), and the numbers available in any area code depend on carrier inventory when you choose them.

Optional AI agents (receptionist, sales, support or scheduler) can answer calls after hours or when nobody picks up, take messages, text, email and transfer to your team. They are billed from prepaid AI minutes at $0.25 per minute, identify themselves as AI, and may only place outbound calls to people who consented, between 8am and 9pm.