Not one of the 20 barbershops we read around Lakeville had answered any of its recent reviews. The same holds for the 20 gyms. Neither trade is short of material: the barbershop median is 137 Google reviews, and the three most-reviewed listings hold 816, 490 and 440. The gym median is 79.5, with 701, 512 and 346 at the top.
The businesses answering the most elsewhere in this catchment do not sort by how big a listing is. Among the 20 shops we read, where the median is 41 reviews, Mainstream Boutique Apple Valley answered 10 of its last 10 on a file of 217, A Bushel and A Peck answered 10 of its last 10 on 76, and Style Niche Boutique answered 10 of its last 10 on 56. Restaurants carry the deepest median of any trade here at 945 reviews, with 2583, 2237 and 1792 at the top of the set. Northern Taphouse - Lakeville answered 10 of its last 10 and holds 2237 reviews; Barley + Vine Kitchen & Bar answered 10 of its last 10 and holds 1750. PORTERHOUSE Steak & Seafood Restaurant answered 1 of its last 10, on a listing of 1792.
Dentists show a median of 291 reviews with 1599, 1216 and 1035 at the top, and Pilot Knob Dental Care answered 10 of its last 10 on a file of 720. Pet grooming is thinner at a median of 98, and Dakota Pet Hospital answered 10 of its last 10 on 313 while Barks & Bubbles answered 10 of its last 10 on 248.
Star ratings will not separate these trades for anyone. The medians run 4.5 for restaurants, 4.9 for barbershops, 4.95 for med spas and 5 for chiropractors — and a trade median is one figure for a whole set, so it tells a reader nothing about which listing is which. Nothing on this page is ordered by stars. Across the 58 businesses we measured in the set someone searching around Lakeville is shown, a typical one answered 77% of its recent reviews. We read 460 businesses in total here. Lakeville's population is 72480 and its median household income is 138119.
What to do about it
If you cut hair or run a gym in this catchment, the reply is the cheapest thing on your listing to change, because among the 20 we read in each of those trades nobody had answered any of their recent reviews. Start at the newest and work backwards. Our reply counts come from each business's most recent reviews, while the review totals are the whole listing, so catching the recent handful is a different and much smaller job than clearing an entire file.
Answer the straightforward ones as well as the awkward ones, and write each reply as its own sentence rather than from a template — a reply that would fit under any review of any business reads exactly like that. And where the leaders in a trade are sitting at 10 of 10, what separates them is not one catch-up session but doing a few every week, which is the difference between a number that moves once and a number that stays where you put it.
Food & drink in Lakeville, MN
Restaurants carry a median of 945 Google reviews each, across the 20 we read in what someone searching around Lakeville is shown. The three most-reviewed hold 2,583, 2,237 and 1,792. In the same group, the 20 bakeries we read sit at a median of 38, and the 20 food trucks sit at 38 as well. Those are whole-listing counts, the full file rather than a recent window.
Northern Taphouse - Lakeville answered 10 of its last 10, on a listing holding 2,237 reviews, and it comes first in both the restaurant read and the bar read. Barley + Vine Kitchen & Bar also answered 10 of its last 10, with 1,750 reviews, and appears in both. Under bars, Wild Bill's Sports Saloon - Apple Valley answered 7 of its last 10, with 1,450.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurants | 945 | 4.5 | Northern Taphouse - Lakeville | 10 of 10 |
| Cafés | 271 | 4.6 | The Better Half | 10 of 10 |
| Coffee shops | 232.5 | 4.6 | The Better Half | 10 of 10 |
| Bars | 433 | 4.6 | Northern Taphouse - Lakeville | 10 of 10 |
| Bakeries | 38 | 4.8 | Sweet Treasures | 9 of 10 |
| Food trucks | 38 | 4.5 | Ineffable Brewing Company | 6 of 10 |
Hair, nails & barbering in Lakeville, MN
None of the 20 barbershops we read had answered any of their recent reviews. Not one. The three most-reviewed barbershop listings in that set hold 816, 490 and 440 Google reviews, and the median across the 20 we read is 137. Those review counts are whole listings; the reply counts we take are drawn from each business's most recent reviews. So there is a lot of customer writing sitting under those listings with nothing written back under the recent end of it.
Hair salons look different in the part of them we can see. Parlour 9 Salon & Spa answered 10 of its last 10 and carries 324 reviews. Fantastic Sams Cut & Color answered 9 of its last 10 and carries 594. Pearl Light answered 8 of its last 10, with 213. Those are the three answering the most out of the 20 hair salons we read, which means they are the only three whose reply behaviour we can describe at all. The median review count for that trade is 112.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barbershops | 137 | 4.9 | — | |
| Hair salons | 112 | 4.8 | Parlour 9 Salon & Spa | 10 of 10 |
| Nail salons | 252 | 4.65 | Nail Bar and Spa | 10 of 10 |
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Spa & aesthetics in Lakeville, MN
Valley Skin & Medspa turns up three times on this page: among the businesses answering the most in day spas, again in med spas, and again in dermatology. It holds 623 reviews and answered 9 of its last 10. One listing sitting in three of the five trades is worth noticing on its own, because it shows how far these categories overlap in what someone searching around Lakeville is actually shown.
Depth is uneven across the five. The median review count is 126 for the day spas we read, 98 for dermatology, 86 for med spas, 61 for massage and 53 for weight-loss clinics. Individual files run far past those medians. The three most-reviewed weight-loss listings hold 1341, 529 and 274 reviews, and the largest of them, SlimGevity, answered 10 of its last 10. In day spas, Kōzē Head Spa & More holds 1048 and answered 8 of its last 10.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day spas | 126 | 4.8 | Valley Skin & Medspa | 9 of 10 |
| Massage | 61 | 4.8 | Frenchies Modern Nail Care Lakeville | 10 of 10 |
| Med spas | 86 | 4.95 | SanaVitta Wellness Center & Medspa | 10 of 10 |
| Weight-loss clinics | 53 | 5 | SlimGevity | 10 of 10 |
| Dermatology | 98 | 4.8 | Allina Health Lakeville South Clinic | 10 of 10 |
Fitness & wellness in Lakeville, MN
None of the 20 gyms we read had answered any of their recent reviews. That is not a trade with nothing to answer: the three most-reviewed gym listings in the set someone searching around Lakeville is shown carry 701, 512 and 346 Google reviews, and the median across the 20 we read is 79.5.
The chiropractors answering the most of their recent reviews, among the 20 we read, are three businesses with their own figures. Enlighten Chiropractic answered 10 of its last 10, on a listing carrying 276 reviews. Family Chiropractic and Wellness answered 7 of its last 10, on a listing carrying 517. Invigorate Family Chiropractic answered 6 of its last 10, on 200. Those are the best repliers we found; the rest of the twenty we read are not described by those numbers in either direction.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gyms | 79.5 | 4.75 | — | |
| Chiropractors | 131 | 5 | Enlighten Chiropractic | 10 of 10 |
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Dental & orthodontics in Lakeville, MN
Pilot Knob Dental Care answered 10 of its last 10 reviews, on a listing holding 720 Google reviews. Advanced Oral Surgery & Periodontics answered 2 of its last 10, on a listing holding 1216. Dental Health Center answered 1 of its last 10, on a listing holding 1599. Those are the three dentists answering the most of their recent reviews among the 20 we read, which is the part worth sitting with: that short list is the top of the set, not the middle of it.
The dentist listings someone searching around Lakeville is shown carry a median of 291 Google reviews, and the three most-reviewed hold 1599, 1216 and 1035. The median rating across the 20 we read is 4.9. A trade median is one figure for a whole set; it does not tell you which listing is which, and nothing on this page is ordered by stars. It is also worth being exact about where the two kinds of number come from: the review counts are the whole listing, while the answered-of-ten counts are drawn only from each business's most recent reviews.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dentists | 291 | 4.9 | Pilot Knob Dental Care | 10 of 10 |
| Orthodontists | 75.5 | 4.9 | Metro Dentalcare Lakeville Idealic | 10 of 10 |
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Pets in Lakeville, MN
Wag N' Wash Natural Pet Food & Grooming shows up among the best repliers in two of the three pet trades we read around Lakeville. Under grooming it answered 9 of its last 10 reviews; under boarding it answered 9 of its last 10 as well. Its listing carries 334 Google reviews. One business can lead in more than one trade, and here one does.
Depth is where these three trades separate. The veterinarians we read show a median of 313 Google reviews per business, and the three most-reviewed hold 518, 452 and 448. The vet recorded as answering the most of its recent reviews, South Metro Animal Emergency Care, answered 7 of its last 10, on a listing of 452. That is one business, and it says nothing about the rest of the twenty we read.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pet grooming | 98 | 4.65 | Dakota Pet Hospital | 10 of 10 |
| Pet boarding | 65.5 | 4.85 | Camp Bow Wow Burnsville | 10 of 10 |
| Veterinarians | 313 | 4.8 | South Metro Animal Emergency Care | 7 of 10 |
Shops & studios in Lakeville, MN
One tattoo studio in the set someone searching around Lakeville is shown carries 2,260 Google reviews. The next two largest files in that trade hold 333 and 243, and the median across the 20 tattoo studios we read is 61. The biggest listing is nothing like the middle of the trade.
Shops read thinner. The median across the 20 we read is 41 reviews, and the three most-reviewed hold 217, 97 and 76. Three of those shops answered every one of their last ten: Mainstream Boutique Apple Valley, which carries 217 reviews, A Bushel and A Peck, which carries 76, and Style Niche Boutique, which carries 56. That list names only the businesses answering the most of their recent reviews, so it says nothing either way about the rest of the twenty we read.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shops | 41 | 4.9 | Mainstream Boutique Apple Valley | 10 of 10 |
| Tattoo studios | 61 | 4.9 | The Asylum Ink | 10 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 Lakeville, 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. Lakeville, MN has a population of 72,480 and a median household income of $138,119 (US Census) — context for the town, not a predictor of its reviews.