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Ulta Beauty in Kentucky

ulta.com · Beauty & Personal Care · the Q3 2026 release

Ulta Beauty has 21 locations in Kentucky, its 27th-largest state of the 49 it operates in.

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Ulta Beauty in Kentucky

Every figure in this block is measured inside Kentucky. Nothing in it is a rate.

Ulta Beauty: local figures for Kentucky.
FigureValueWhat it measuresKentucky only
Locations in Kentucky21Records the US location index holds for Ulta Beauty inside Kentucky right now — a snapshot at the Q3 2026 release, not a change over time.
Rank among Ulta Beauty's states27th of 49By location count, among the states where this brand clears the publication floor.
States with a published Ulta Beauty page49States where the brand has at least 3 locations. Smaller states exist in the index and are not published.
Locations across those states1,663The sum of the state table below. Lower than the national count, which includes states under the floor.
Kentucky's share of that footprint1.3%A share of the published states only. Both halves are the same measure, so this is not a growth rate.
Verified openings in Kentucky4A DIFFERENT measure from the count above: openings detected inside the tracked window, not stores standing today.
Cities with verified openings in Kentucky4Distinct cities after folding spelling variants. See the city table.
  • The two counts above are measured differently and are both correct. Locations in Kentucky is a presence snapshot of what operates there now; verified openings counts what opened inside the tracked window. A chain that already had 40 locations in Kentucky and opened none reads 0 openings.
  • It is a count of OPENINGS, not of stores. Openings are diffs against the previous release, so a mature operator that finished its Kentucky buildout before the window opened shows a large location count and no openings at all.
Where Ulta Beauty has opened in Kentucky

Cities with verified openings recorded for Ulta Beauty in Kentucky. The count beside each city is its openings — not its total Ulta Beauty locations.

Ulta Beauty verified openings by city in Kentucky, largest first.
Citymodal spelling in the indexVerified openingsinside KentuckyShare of Kentucky openingsSpellings foldedraw variants in the index
Campbellsville125.0%1
Corbin125.0%1
Louisville125.0%1
Madisonville125.0%1
  • 4 cities with verified openings in Kentucky.
  • Spellings are folded the same way the city URLs are built, so "St. Louis" and "St Louis" are one city rather than two. The most frequent raw spelling wins the label; "Spellings folded" is how many the index actually holds.
  • Cities are NOT linked: a city page is published only where at least three brands clear the floor, so a link from here would frequently point at a page that does not exist.
Ulta Beauty in every state we publish

The brand's whole published footprint, largest first. Kentucky is highlighted in place.

Ulta Beauty locations by state.
RankStateLocationspresence snapshotShare of footprintpublished states only
1California19411.7%
2Texas1519.1%
3Florida1317.9%
4New York694.1%
5Illinois684.1%
6North Carolina583.5%
7Michigan573.4%
8Pennsylvania573.4%
9New Jersey563.4%
10Ohio563.4%
11Georgia492.9%
12Arizona472.8%
13Washington422.5%
14Virginia412.5%
15Tennessee362.2%
16Colorado352.1%
17Alabama332.0%
18Indiana301.8%
19Massachusetts301.8%
20Maryland291.7%
21Minnesota281.7%
22South Carolina281.7%
23Missouri271.6%
24Wisconsin261.6%
25Oklahoma241.4%
26Connecticut221.3%
27Kentucky — this page211.3%
28Oregon211.3%
29Utah211.3%
30Louisiana201.2%
31Nevada201.2%
32Kansas150.9%
33Iowa140.8%
34Mississippi140.8%
35Arkansas120.7%
36Idaho120.7%
37New Mexico90.5%
38New Hampshire80.5%
39West Virginia80.5%
40Montana70.4%
41Nebraska60.4%
42Rhode Island50.3%
43Delaware40.2%
44Hawaii40.2%
45Maine40.2%
46North Dakota40.2%
47Wyoming40.2%
48Alaska30.2%
49South Dakota30.2%
  • A state appears here only with at least 3 locations. States below the floor are in the index but have no page, so this total is smaller than the national count.
  • Locations are a presence snapshot at the Q3 2026 release. They are not openings and they are not a change.
Ulta Beauty nationwide

Context for the local figures above. None of it is a Kentucky number.

Ulta Beauty: national figures, for context only.
FigureValueUnited StatesBasis
US locations1,664At the latest vintage, Q3 2026.
US locations at the window start1,506The first tracked vintage, Q4 2024.
Net new over the window+158The difference between the two counts above. A count movement, not a count of openings.
Growth over the windowwithheld: this brand's index coverage is still maturing — see the note under this tablePercentage change in the count between the first and latest vintages, nationwide.
Growth as a multiplewithheld: this brand's index coverage is still maturing — see the note under this tableThe same movement stated as a multiple of the starting count.
Growth against its categorywithheld: this brand's index coverage is still maturing — see the note under this tableThe brand's percentage change minus its category's, so a rising tide is subtracted out.
Mean quarterly change-2.2Average count movement per vintage step. The default ranking key on the hub.
Verified openings in the window91Individually dated location records new to the index inside the window, nationwide.
Openings pace, latest stepthe openings steps did not clear the pace gate this vintage: one release carries too much of the window's movement, or the two most recent steps are not adjacent releasesVerified openings per 91 days over the most recent vintage step.
Openings pace, prior stepthe openings steps did not clear the pace gate this vintage: one release carries too much of the window's movement, or the two most recent steps are not adjacent releasesThe same measure one step earlier.
Directionthe openings steps did not clear the pace gate this vintage: one release carries too much of the window's movement, or the two most recent steps are not adjacent releasesAccelerating, steady or slowing, decided on the two paces at the precision they are printed.
Latest pace as a share of the basethe openings steps did not clear the pace gate this vintage: one release carries too much of the window's movement, or the two most recent steps are not adjacent releasesThe latest pace over the store count at that step's start vintage.
Prior pace as a share of the basethe openings steps did not clear the pace gate this vintage: one release carries too much of the window's movement, or the two most recent steps are not adjacent releasesThe same measure one step earlier.
Reported openings pace, latest+4.8The server's own pre-aggregated pace. Shown because the page ranks on the series-derived figure above and the two must agree.
Reported openings pace, prior+53The same, one step earlier.
Largest single step's share of the change48%One release carrying most of the movement is the signature of a data-coverage artifact rather than of openings.
Steps that moved the same direction100%A real buildout moves one way most quarters. This and the row above are the credibility filter.
Passes the credibility filteryesLargest step at or under half the movement, most steps in one direction, and net new above zero.
Cleared to print a percentagenoWhether the index's coverage of this brand is mature enough for a rate to mean anything.
Openings corroborated by coverage58%Share of the openings that agree with the count series over the same step.
Records matching the brand's own website100%Share of index records whose website resolves to this domain.
Records sharing an address with another operator68%High values mean host locations, sibling banners or shared kitchens rather than the chain's own leases.
Entity classchainAnything other than a chain is not published as a brand page in this state tier.
CategoryRetail > Cosmetics StoreThe index's own category path for this brand.
SegmentBeauty & Personal CareThe published grouping the category rolls up to.
Match name in the indexulta beautyThe string the location index matches records against. Rarely the display name.
Display nameUlta BeautyAs published. Some domains carry a read-time repair where the index's most frequent name is a department's.
Domainulta.comThe key every table on this tier is joined on.
Tracked window8 vintages, Q4 2024 to Q3 2026How many quarterly releases this brand has been measured across.
Vintage stamps2024-11-19|2024-12-03|2025-03-06|2025-06-10|2025-09-09|2025-12-16|2026-03-18|2026-07-09Every release these figures were built from, oldest first, pipe-separated. It is a LIST of dates rather than one date, which is why nothing on this page prints it as a timestamp.
  • Every figure in this block is NATIONAL. It is identical on all 49 of Ulta Beauty's state pages and is not apportioned to Kentucky — dividing a national percentage into a state is not a fact about anything, which is why no Kentucky growth rate is published anywhere on this page.
  • Openings are individually dated records new to the index; net new is the difference between two count snapshots. The two answer different questions and rarely match.
  • This brand's index coverage is still maturing, so growth percentages are withheld — the counts shown are individually verified store openings.
  • Ulta Beauty has an openings series — it is printed in full below — but no quarterly pace is published from it this vintage. A step whose records are majority batch-suspect measures a supplier delivery rather than a buildout, and comparing one against a clean step produces a direction that is an artifact of the ingest. The same applies when one release carries most of the window's openings, or when the two most recent steps are not adjacent releases.
Ulta Beauty's count by quarter, nationwide

The national count series behind the figures above. Both readings of it — the raw count and the indexed one — are columns here.

Ulta Beauty: US locations at each tracked vintage.
QuarterVintage dateUS locationsIndexed100 = first vintageChange vs prior
Q4 20242024-11-191,506100—
Q4 20242024-12-031,507100+1
Q1 20252025-03-061,582105+75
Q2 20252025-06-101,588105+6
Q3 20252025-09-091,600106+12
Q4 20252025-12-161,607107+7
Q1 20262026-03-181,660110+53
Q3 20262026-07-091,664110+4
  • Indexed values rebase the series to 100 at the first vintage with a non-zero count. A brand first measured at zero enters at 0 and reaches 100 one step later.
  • National figures. Not apportioned to any state.
Ulta Beauty's openings by vintage step, nationwide

Each row is the difference between two consecutive releases, so there is one fewer step than there are quarters above.

Ulta Beauty: verified openings per vintage step, with the real step length each pace is normalised by.
Step endsQuarterOpeningsin the stepStep lengthdaysPaceper 91 daysBatch-suspectshare of the step
Dec 3, 2024Q4 2024314+200%
Mar 6, 2025Q1 2025693+5.90%
Jun 10, 2025Q2 2025196+0.90%
Sep 9, 2025Q3 2025891+80%
Dec 16, 2025Q4 20251398+1223%
Mar 18, 2026Q1 20265492+5396%
Jul 9, 2026Q3 20266113+4.833%
  • Steps are irregular, so a pace is openings divided by the step's real length and multiplied by 91 days rather than a raw quarterly count.
  • A batch-suspect share above half means the records were created on an index-wide vendor ingest day or bunched into a few days of the step; it impeaches the timing, not the existence of the stores.
  • National figures. Not apportioned to any state.
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