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Bakeries and dessert shops in Union County, FL
Competitor counts, household spending and official business counts for bakeries and dessert shops in Union County, FL, set against other counties and the U.S.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 1.
- Listings
- 1
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $14.6M
- On food away from home · $3,384 a household
- Spending per listing
- $14.6M
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 2.3
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 16,250
- +5.2% since 2020
See the bakeries and dessert shops around any address in Union County
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What this means
Household spending on food away from home in Union County comes to about $14.6M a year: $3,384 per household, 17% below the U.S. average. That is about $14.6M of household spending for each shop on map listings. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only bakeries and dessert shops.
Union County has 1 bakery or dessert shop on map listings as of September 2026. That is 2.3 per 10,000 households.
Official counts don’t publish a figure for snack bars and retail bakeries in Union County, since they leave out counts under 3. Official counts list 4 one-person businesses without payroll.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Union County grew 5.2%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). With 1 bakery or dessert shop on map listings, Union County isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How Union 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 | Union County | Florida | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 2.3 | 9.9 | 9.8 |
| Spending per listing | $14.6M | $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 | +5.2% | +8.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,384 | $3,841 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $64,146 | $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
- 4All snack bars and retail bakeries with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 10 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 4The 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 Union 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 Union County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 16,250+5.2% since 2020
- Households
- 4,316
- Median age
- 38.6
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 75%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 244 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 64
- Median household income
- $64,146+44.9% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $84,348
- Median home value
- $169,500
- Jobs located here
- 3,056
- Daytime population
- 12,718Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
Looking at a specific site in Union County?
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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 |
| Union County, FL | Not scored | 1 | 2.3 | $14.6M | +5.2% |
Other business types in Union County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes80
- Sit-down restaurants76
- Fast food and sandwich shops
- Pizza
- Coffee shops and cafes
- Bakeries and dessert shops
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Questions
How many bakeries and dessert shops are in Union County, FL?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 1 bakery or dessert shop in Union 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 Union County: counts under 3 are left out. Official counts also show 4 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Union County, FL spend on food away from home?
About $14.6M a year, or $3,384 per household. That is 17% below the U.S. average (an index of 83, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1 bakery or dessert shop on map listings, it comes to $14.6M per shop. That spending covers all food away from home, which bakeries and dessert shops share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 4,316 households in Union County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Union County, FL compare with the U.S. for bakeries and dessert shops?
Union County has 1 bakery or dessert shop on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the U.S. ratio of bakeries and dessert shops to household spending, Union County would have about 4, against 1 on map listings.
How fast is Union County, FL growing?
Population estimates put Union County at 16,250 people in 2025, up 5.2% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 4,316 households. The median household income in Union County is $64,146 a year, 21% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 44.9% from the 2015–2019 survey, 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. Union County has no market score for bakeries and dessert shops: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 1.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
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