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Bakeries and dessert shops in Jefferson County, KS
How Jefferson County, KS 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 3.
- Listings
- 3
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $30M
- On food away from home · $4,054 a household
- Spending per listing
- $10M
- 2.4 times the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 4.0
- 59% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 18,296
- −0.2% since 2020
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What this means
At $4,054 per household (in line with the U.S. average), households in Jefferson County spend about $30M a year on food away from home. Spread across 3 bakeries and dessert shops, that is $10M per shop, 2.4 times the U.S. figure of $4.1M. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only bakeries and dessert shops.
Jefferson County has 3 bakeries and dessert shops on map listings as of September 2026. Per 10,000 households, that is 4.0, 59% below the U.S. rate of 9.8.
Official counts don’t publish a figure for snack bars and retail bakeries in Jefferson County, since they leave out counts under 3.
Population estimates show Jefferson County declined 0.2% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S. With 3 bakeries and dessert shops on map listings, Jefferson County isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How Jefferson County compares
The same measures for Kansas 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 | Jefferson County | Kansas | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 4.0 | 8.7 | 9.8 |
| Spending per listing | $10M | $4.5M | $4.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all snack bars and retail bakeries) | n/a | 1,656 | 1,369 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +43.5% | +24.6% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −0.2% | +1.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $4,054 | $3,910 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $81,278 | $74,275 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 49 |
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
- 30 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 7The 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 Jefferson 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 Jefferson County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 18,296−0.2% since 2020
- Households
- 7,412
- Median age
- 43.8
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 86%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.4
- Land area
- 533 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 34
- Median household income
- $81,278+25.3% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $100,809
- Median home value
- $216,900
- Jobs located here
- 4,013
- Daytime population
- 13,090Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Kansas
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Miami County, KS | 89 | 7 | 5.1 | $8.3M | +5.9% | #20 of 1,889 |
| 2Leavenworth County, KS | 85 | 10 | 3.3 | $12.8M | +3.2% | #43 of 1,889 |
| 3Butler County, KS | 80 | 15 | 5.9 | $6.8M | +3.1% | #85 of 1,889 |
| 4Pottawatomie County, KS | 71 | 7 | 7.5 | $5.7M | +6.9% | #244 of 1,889 |
| 5Johnson County, KS | 65 | 241 | 9.7 | $5.1M | +4.2% | #395 of 1,889 |
| 6Cowley County, KS | 62 | 6 | 4.5 | $7.5M | −0.4% | #459 of 1,889 |
| 7Douglas County, KS | 53 | 37 | 7.3 | $5.3M | +1.8% | #807 of 1,889 |
| 8Harvey County, KS | 53 | 10 | 7.3 | $5.1M | −1.2% | #811 of 1,889 |
| 9Shawnee County, KS | 52 | 55 | 7.3 | $5M | 0.0% | #848 of 1,889 |
| 10Sedgwick County, KS | 52 | 179 | 8.7 | $4.3M | +2.6% | #856 of 1,889 |
| Jefferson County, KS | Not scored | 3 | 4.0 | $10M | −0.2% |
Other business types in Jefferson County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes78
- Sit-down restaurants66
- Fast food and sandwich shops
- Pizza35
- Coffee shops and cafes52
- Bakeries and dessert shops
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Questions
How many bakeries and dessert shops are in Jefferson County, KS?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 3 bakeries and dessert shops in Jefferson 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 Jefferson County: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in Jefferson County, KS spend on food away from home?
About $30M a year, or $4,054 per household. That is in line with the U.S. average (an index of 100, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 3 bakeries and dessert shops on map listings, it comes to $10M 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 7,412 households in Jefferson County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Jefferson County, KS compare with the U.S. for bakeries and dessert shops?
Jefferson County has 4.0 bakeries and dessert shops per 10,000 households, 59% below the U.S. rate of 9.8. Spending per shop is $10M, 2.4 times the U.S. figure of $4.1M. At the U.S. ratio of bakeries and dessert shops to household spending, Jefferson County would have about 7, against 3 on map listings.
How fast is Jefferson County, KS growing?
Population estimates put Jefferson County at 18,296 people in 2025, down 0.2% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 7,412 households. The median household income in Jefferson County is $81,278 a year, in line with the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 25.3% 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. Jefferson County has no market score for bakeries and dessert shops: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 3.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
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