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Bakeries and dessert shops in Gilchrist County, FL
How Gilchrist County, FL compares with other counties and the U.S. for bakeries and dessert shops: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has none.
- Listings
- 0
- None on the map
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $25M
- On food away from home · $3,493 a household
- Spending per listing
- n/a
- Listings per 10k households
- 0.0
- Population, 2025
- 20,488
- +14.5% since 2020
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What this means
There are no bakeries and dessert shops on map listings in Gilchrist County as of September 2026. At the U.S. ratio of bakeries and dessert shops to household spending, Gilchrist County would have about 6, against none on map listings.
Households in Gilchrist County spend about $25M a year on food away from home, or $3,493 per household, 14% below the U.S. average. That spending covers all food away from home, which bakeries and dessert shops share with other businesses in the trade.
There is no official count of businesses with payroll classed as snack bars and retail bakeries in Gilchrist County: counts under 3 aren’t published.
Population estimates show Gilchrist County grew 14.5% from 2020 to 2025, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). With no bakeries and dessert shops on map listings, Gilchrist County isn’t given a market score for them.
How Gilchrist County compares
The same measures for Florida and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all food away from home by the bakeries and dessert shops counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Gilchrist County | Florida | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 0.0 | 9.9 | 9.8 |
| Spending per listing | n/a | $3.9M | $4.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all snack bars and retail bakeries) | n/a | 1,743 | 1,369 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +34.5% | +24.6% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +14.5% | +8.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,493 | $3,841 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $63,523 | $74,568 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 55 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- n/aAll snack bars and retail bakeries
- Employees, 2023
- n/a
- Annual payroll, 2023
- n/a
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0All snack bars and retail bakeries with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 0
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 6The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as snack bars and retail bakeries in Gilchrist County, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3. These official figures cover all snack bars and retail bakeries, not only bakeries and dessert shops.
Population and households in Gilchrist County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 20,488+14.5% since 2020
- Households
- 7,151
- Median age
- 43.0
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 86%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 350 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 54
- Median household income
- $63,523+45.6% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $91,884
- Median home value
- $199,900
- Jobs located here
- 3,574
- Daytime population
- 15,082Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Florida
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Sumter County, FL | 91 | 24 | 3.4 | $11M | +21.1% | #11 of 1,889 |
| 2Wakulla County, FL | 87 | 6 | 4.7 | $8.1M | +12.3% | #30 of 1,889 |
| 3Flagler County, FL | 85 | 29 | 5.5 | $7M | +21.0% | #49 of 1,889 |
| 4Santa Rosa County, FL | 85 | 50 | 6.9 | $6.1M | +11.7% | #53 of 1,889 |
| 5Nassau County, FL | 81 | 32 | 8.1 | $5.1M | +17.4% | #81 of 1,889 |
| 6Suwannee County, FL | 77 | 5 | 3.1 | $10.3M | +10.6% | #122 of 1,889 |
| 7Lake County, FL | 77 | 109 | 6.6 | $5.6M | +18.1% | #131 of 1,889 |
| 8Citrus County, FL | 76 | 38 | 5.3 | $6.1M | +11.1% | #145 of 1,889 |
| 9Clay County, FL | 76 | 60 | 7.2 | $5.6M | +9.4% | #148 of 1,889 |
| 10Charlotte County, FL | 76 | 59 | 6.5 | $5.5M | +15.5% | #149 of 1,889 |
| Gilchrist County, FL | Not scored | 0 | 0.0 | n/a | +14.5% |
Other business types in Gilchrist County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes82
- Sit-down restaurants78
- Fast food and sandwich shops66
- Pizza60
- Coffee shops and cafes
- Bakeries and dessert shops
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Health care
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Questions
How many bakeries and dessert shops are in Gilchrist County, FL?
Map listings as of September 2026 show no bakeries and dessert shops in Gilchrist County. The listings count bakeries, ice cream, donut and dessert shops, candy stores. No official count is published for snack bars and retail bakeries in Gilchrist County: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in Gilchrist County, FL spend on food away from home?
About $25M a year, or $3,493 per household. That is 14% below the U.S. average (an index of 86, where 100 is the U.S. average). The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only bakeries and dessert shops. It is estimated from the incomes of the 7,151 households in Gilchrist County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Gilchrist County, FL compare with the U.S. for bakeries and dessert shops?
Gilchrist County has no bakeries and dessert shops on map listings. At the national ratio of bakeries and dessert shops to household spending, Gilchrist County would have about 6, against none on map listings.
How fast is Gilchrist County, FL growing?
Population estimates put Gilchrist County at 20,488 people in 2025, up 14.5% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 7,151 households. Median household income in Gilchrist County is $63,523, 21% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 45.6%, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. Gilchrist County has no market score for bakeries and dessert shops, having none on map listings.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
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