Business Services · registry year 2024 · HQ MO
H&R Block Franchise
A H&R Block Inc brand operating in the business services sector, franchising since 1956. According to the 2024 FDD filing for H&R Block, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $32K – $139K
- Initial investment · Lower entry cost
- 30.5%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 9,000
- Total locations · Large network
- $150K
- Avg unit revenue · Below-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry h-r-block H&R Block
H&R Block needs $32K–$139K to open and charges a 30.5% royalty - an entry cost below the typical business services franchise.
- LO $32K
- HI $139K
- FEE $3K
- ROY 30.5%
- UNT 9,000
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #207/223
- UNT# #15/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Dale Carnegie Training ($36K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for H&R Block (registry year 2024). Listed lows only - not a profit, cost-of-living, or suitability claim. Verify the current FDD before relying on these figures. How we place brands →
Franchise Opportunity Health Score
How healthy and transparent H&R Block's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum -1.1% net unit growth (YoY) 8/100 · F
- Financial disclosure Item 19 disclosed 100/100 · A
Benchmarked against the 223-brand tracked corpus (p10-p90 range per dimension); a higher score means a growing unit count and a disclosed Item 19. See how we place brands.
Where H&R Block's investment ranks nationally
H&R Block's listed Item 7 low of $32K against every one of the 218 tracked franchise brands with a disclosed initial investment. Listed figures only, verify in the current FDD before relying on them.
H&R Block vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$31,500 Among the lowest lower than 94% of 218 franchise brands
Franchise brands, banded by listed Item 7 low
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Source PlainFranchise editorial comparison registry · 2024-12-31
Investment Overview
- Franchise Fee
- $3K
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $150K
- gross revenue per location
* Revenue figures are gross revenue (sales), not profit. This registry does not report operating costs or profit.
Network Size & Growth
Net Growth Rate
Year-over-year unit change
200 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Business Services
- Subsector
- tax services
- Founded
- 1955
- Franchising Since
- 1956
- Headquarters
- MO
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · H&R Block
This H&R Block page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for H&R Block.
National footprint registry read for H&R Block
Signature read: 9,000 locations · Item 7 low $32K
H&R Block, a H&R Block Inc franchise, has been franchising since 1956 - 1 years after the concept was founded in 1955 , currently with 9,000 total locations (6,000 franchised, 3,000 company-owned; 67% of the recorded total is franchised) in the business services sector, headquartered in MO. The registry records a total initial investment between $32K and $139K, using the registry's listed low and high fields. The registry separately records a franchise-fee field of $3K; its summary does not reproduce every Item 7 line item.
Royalty payments here are set at 30.5% of gross sales. H&R Block has an Item 19 financial-performance field in this registry, a voluntary disclosure under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $150K; the listed royalty rate multiplied by the reported average equals $46K, which is not a total-cost or profit calculation. Revenue is not profit; this registry does not contain a complete operating-cost or profit record.
H&R Block's footprint shrank over the past year, down 1.1% with 200 closures on the record. The percentage does not identify why the count changed or what it means for a specific location.
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Related reading for H&R Block: Understanding FDDs , H&R Block lists Item 19 revenue here, how Item 19 fits the 23-item FDD.
Snapshot uses the registry's listed Item 7 initial-investment low and Item 20 location-count fields. It is a descriptive comparison, not a ranking or investment recommendation.
How H&R Block's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for H&R Block , both outside HQ state MO : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($32K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (9,000 here).
What to do with this
H&R Block at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- H&R Block scores 54/100 (F) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $32K – $139K entry cost runs below the typical business services franchise.
- Ranks #207 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Dale Carnegie Training sits at a comparable investment level ($36K) in the same sector. Compare
Editorial comparison registry, not a source-linked FDD record. Verify the current FDD before relying on any figure.
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