Boomers Lead Potential Business Buyers in Resources for Funding New Franchises

May 11, 2020 – Baby Boomers interested in buying franchises may not claim the same high growth rates of Millennial and Gen X entrepreneurs, but the sizable Boomer segment holds an attractive lead in assets to fund new franchise businesses.

Baby Boomers accounted for 27% of prospects contacting franchisors through the FranchiseVentures demand-generation platform in 2019. Here is a demographic profile of the 55- to 73-year-old cohort, based on 2019 data:

• Boomer prospects led other major age groups for liquid assets, with 13.7% owning more than $500,000 in estimated income-producing assets. That indexes 67% above average. Another 38.6% own more than $75,000 to $500,000 in estimated assets, which indexes 35% above average.
• Boomers also indexed above average for estimated household income, with 40.5% earning $100,000 or more a year. That indexes 10% higher than the average.
• Homeownership increases with age, and 82% of the 55- to 73-year-old prospects own their own homes. Estimated home value exceeds $500,000 for 16.8% of this group, the highest among all cohorts at 13% above average.
• Boomer-aged prospects mirrored overall trends for the most popular categories of franchises, with Food and Restaurants accounting for nearly 20% of their inquiries, Home Services 16% and Business Services 12%. They also showed higher-than-average interest in several categories, contacting Senior and Health  Care franchises 7% more than average, Business Services 7% more than average, Pet Services 6% more than average, and Automotive franchises 5% more than average.

For this analysis, Franchise Insights combined proprietary data from the FranchiseVentures’ demand-generation platform with demographic data from Alliant, a leading provider of U.S. consumer audience targeting and data enrichment and predictive analytics.

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Published on Monday, May 11th, 2020.