Twenty gyms in the set someone searching around Cottage Grove is shown were read, and not one of them had answered any of its recent reviews. The median gym in that set carries 93 Google reviews, and the three most-reviewed carry 457, 376 and 372. The median rating there is 4.4, which is one figure for the whole set and does not tell you which listing is which. Across the 44 businesses we measured in what a searcher here is shown, a typical one answered 77% of its recent reviews; we do not know which trades those 44 came from.
Orthodontists look different. Three of them answered 10 of their last 10: Horton Orthodontics, with 644 reviews on its listing, Metro Dentalcare Cottage Grove with 464, and Pine Arbor Dental Care with 305. Among dentists, City's Edge Dental Care answered 10 of its last 10 with 644 reviews, and Metro Dentalcare Cottage Grove 10 of 10 with 463. Those are only the businesses answering the most in each trade — we do not name the rest of the twenty we read in either one.
Review depth and reply counts are two separate things, and they come from two different windows. The median restaurant in this catchment has 424.5 reviews and the three biggest restaurant files hold 3,443, 1,554 and 1,429; Junction 70 Bar and Grill answered 9 of its last 10, with 1,554 reviews on its listing. The median shop has 28.5 reviews, and Bride and Jewel Co. answered 10 of its last 10 with 124. A deep file and a recent reply are not the same achievement.
In pet grooming, the businesses answering the most of their recent reviews are Hound Around Resort, at 3 of its last 10, Chuck & Don's Pet Food & Supplies at 2, and Park Grove Pet Hospital at 1. In pet boarding, Cottage Grove Animal Hospital answered 10 of its last 10 with 451 reviews. Among veterinarians, Carver Lake Veterinary Center answered 10 of 10 with 472 reviews, and Southview Animal Hospital 1 of its last 10 with 1,981. Cottage Grove's population is 40,124 and its median household income is $121,452; we read 400 businesses in total across these trades.
What to do about it
If you run a gym in this catchment, the figure to act on is not the 93 reviews at the median — it is that across the twenty we read, no recent review had anything written under it. That does not require working back through a whole listing. The reply counts on this page are drawn from each business's most recent reviews, so the job starts at the newest one and moves down from there.
Answer the good ones as well as the hard ones, and write each reply so it names something the person actually said; a reply that could sit under any of the last ten is worth less than a short specific one. Then work out who writes the next one and when, because catching up once and keeping up are different pieces of work. Junction 70 Bar and Grill at 9 of its last 10 and City's Edge Dental Care at 10 of 10 are counts kept by hand, one review at a time.
Food & drink in Cottage Grove, MN
Hy-Vee Grocery Store carries 3379 Google reviews and answered 4 of its last 10, and it is the bakery answering the most of its recent reviews in the set someone searching around Cottage Grove is shown. The median across the 20 bakeries we read is 83 reviews, while the three largest bakery listings hold 3379, 2322 and 448. The reply counts come from each business's most recent reviews; the review counts are the whole listing.
A typical business among the 44 we measured in what a searcher in Cottage Grove is shown answered 77% of its recent reviews. Park Cafe answered 10 of its last 10 and carries 821 reviews, and it is the business answering the most of its recent reviews under both cafes and coffee shops. Junction 70 Bar and Grill answered 9 of its last 10 and carries 1554 reviews; it is the business answering the most of its recent reviews under restaurants, bars and food trucks, and it also appears among the cafes answering the most. Under bars, Blvd Tavern answered 8 of its last 10 with 1614 reviews, and Applebee's Grill + Bar answered 8 of its last 10 with 1415 reviews.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurants | 424.5 | 4.6 | Junction 70 Bar and Grill | 9 of 10 |
| Cafés | 156.5 | 4.8 | Park Cafe | 10 of 10 |
| Coffee shops | 82 | 4.6 | Park Cafe | 10 of 10 |
| Bars | 355.5 | 4.3 | Junction 70 Bar and Grill | 9 of 10 |
| Bakeries | 83 | 4.6 | Hy-Vee Grocery Store | 4 of 10 |
| Food trucks | 159 | 4.7 | Junction 70 Bar and Grill | 9 of 10 |
Hair, nails & barbering in Cottage Grove, MN
Three nail salon listings in the set someone searching around Cottage Grove is shown carry 685, 645 and 377 Google reviews. Mia Nails and Spa answered 10 of its most recent 10, on a listing of 645. La'Noir Nail Bar - Woodbury also answered 10 of its most recent 10, on 376. Daisy Nails & Spa Woodbury answered 3 of its most recent 10, on 685. The median across the 20 nail salons we read is 189.5 reviews.
The barbershops a customer here sees show the same shape at different numbers. The three most-reviewed listings carry 855, 444 and 327, and the median across the 20 we read is 127.5. Sport Clips Haircuts of Cottage Grove answered 10 of its most recent 10, on a listing of 196. The Patron Barbershop answered 3 of its most recent 10, on 183. Those two kinds of number come from different places and it is worth keeping them apart: the reply counts are drawn from each business's most recent reviews, while the review counts describe the whole listing.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barbershops | 127.5 | 4.800000000000001 | Sport Clips Haircuts of Cottage Grove | 10 of 10 |
| Nail salons | 189.5 | 4.7 | Mia Nails and Spa | 10 of 10 |
Spa & aesthetics in Cottage Grove, MN
Rejuvenation MedSpa by Minnesota Women's Care appears in the leader list of all three trades in this group, and in each one it had answered 10 of its last 10 recent reviews, on a listing holding 261 reviews. It is not the only name that repeats. OYESPA Aveda Lifestyle Salon & Spa turns up under both day spas and med spas, and answered 2 of its last 10. So the three searches a customer runs around Cottage Grove for a day spa, a med spa and a weight-loss clinic do not return three sealed-off sets of businesses.
Among the other names our reading surfaced, Oasis Chiropractic & Wellness Center answered 10 of its last 10, with 482 reviews on its listing. Blu Ice Med Spa answered 9 of its last 10, with 177. The Healing Place of Cottage Grove answered 7 of its last 10, with 210. Among the 44 businesses we measured for someone searching in Cottage Grove, the typical one had answered 77% of its recent reviews. We do not know which trades those 44 came from, so it is a figure to sit beside these counts rather than a line drawn under this group.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day spas | 82 | 4.9 | Rejuvenation MedSpa by Minnesota Women's Care | 10 of 10 |
| Med spas | 48.5 | 5 | Rejuvenation MedSpa by Minnesota Women's Care | 10 of 10 |
| Weight-loss clinics | 93 | 5 | Oasis Chiropractic & Wellness Center | 10 of 10 |
Fitness & wellness in Cottage Grove, MN
None of the 20 gyms we read had answered any of their recent reviews. Not one. These are not empty listings either: the three most-reviewed gyms someone searching around Cottage Grove is shown carry 457, 376 and 372 Google reviews, and the median across the 20 we read is 93.
Among the chiropractors, three businesses answer the most of their recent reviews. Synergy Chiropractic, P.A. answered 10 of its last 10, on a listing holding 618 reviews. Oasis Chiropractic & Wellness Center answered 10 of its last 10, on 482. MN Spine and Sport answered 7 of its last 10, on 420. Those are the three answering the most of the 20 chiropractors we read. What the rest of that twenty do is not something this page can tell you, because the list only holds the businesses answering the most.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gyms | 93 | 4.4 | — | |
| Chiropractors | 178 | 4.9 | Synergy Chiropractic, P.A. | 10 of 10 |
Dental & orthodontics in Cottage Grove, MN
City's Edge Dental Care answered 10 of its last 10 reviews, on a listing carrying 644 of them. Horton Orthodontics did the same, also on 644. Those are the businesses answering the most among the 20 dentists and the 20 orthodontists we read around Cottage Grove, and two different windows are in play there: the reply counts come from each business's most recent reviews, while the 644 is the whole listing. The leader list holds only the businesses answering the most, so it says nothing either way about the rest of the twenty in either trade.
The files in this group are deep. The median review count among the 20 dentists we read is 154.5, and among the 20 orthodontists it is 177; the three most-reviewed listings in this set hold 644, 560 and 501. For context, across the 44 businesses we measured in what someone searching in Cottage Grove is shown, a typical one answered 77% of its recent reviews. That figure is not this trade's and we cannot say which trades those 44 sit in — it is simply the measured line on this page.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dentists | 154.5 | 4.85 | City's Edge Dental Care | 10 of 10 |
| Orthodontists | 177 | 4.9 | Horton Orthodontics | 10 of 10 |
Pets in Cottage Grove, MN
In the grooming set, the two businesses answering the most of their recent reviews answered 3 of 10 and 2 of 10. Hound Around Resort answered 3 of its most recent 10 reviews and holds 287 Google reviews; Chuck & Don's Pet Food & Supplies answered 2 of its most recent 10 and holds 258. Those are the counts for the ones answering the most, from the 20 grooming businesses we read in the set someone searching around Cottage Grove is shown. One other number belongs on this page in its own right. Across the 44 businesses we measured in what a searcher here sees, a typical one answered 77% of its recent reviews.
The counts in the boarding and vet sets run differently business by business. Cottage Grove Animal Hospital answered 10 of its most recent 10, with 451 Google reviews. Dogtopia of Woodbury also answered 10 of its most recent 10, with 139. Among the 20 veterinarians we read, Carver Lake Veterinary Center answered 10 of its most recent 10 and holds 472 reviews, and Skadron Animal Hospital answered 5 of its most recent 10 and holds 519. Southview Animal Hospital holds 1,981 reviews and answered 1 of its most recent 10.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pet grooming | 75 | 4.7 | Hound Around Resort | 3 of 10 |
| Pet boarding | 49 | 4.8 | Cottage Grove Animal Hospital | 10 of 10 |
| Veterinarians | 184 | 4.7 | Carver Lake Veterinary Center | 10 of 10 |
Shops & studios in Cottage Grove, MN
A median of 28.5 Google reviews sits under the 20 shops we read around Cottage Grove, and the three most-reviewed of them hold 647, 552 and 224. Both figures describe the same trade. No other trade in this read carries a lower median: tattoo studios are at 51.5, veterinarians at 184, restaurants at 424.5. These are whole-listing counts, not recent windows, so the picture a searcher here gets under shops is a handful of very large files and a lot of small ones.
On replies, three of the 20 shops came back answering the most of their recent reviews. Bride and Jewel Co. answered 10 of its last 10 and its listing holds 124 reviews. Salons by JC Cottage Grove also answered 10 of its last 10, with 94 reviews. Patina - Woodbury answered 9 of its last 10, with 224. Those are the three we can speak about; we read 20 and the ones we did not name are not described by that list either way. For scale, across the 44 businesses we measured in what someone searching in Cottage Grove is shown, a typical one answered 77% of its recent reviews.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shops | 28.5 | 4.8 | Bride and Jewel Co. | 10 of 10 |
| Tattoo studios | 51.5 | 4.95 | Removery Tattoo Removal & Fading | 9 of 10 |
Method
Every figure comes from public Google listings — the businesses and owner replies any customer can see — read on 2026-09-24. Counts describe the businesses someone searching in Cottage Grove, MN is shown, which is the competitive set a customer actually chooses from, not a register of businesses inside the city limits. A business is named only where we read at least eight of its recent reviews, and only the ones answering the most are named; the rest of a market appears as a distribution with its denominator. Chains are counted but never named. Nothing is ranked on star rating. Cottage Grove, MN has a population of 40,124 and a median household income of $121,452 (US Census) — context for the town, not a predictor of its reviews.