Food and drink · Small-town market · Ohio
Bakeries and dessert shops in the Wooster, OH area
How the Wooster, OH area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for bakeries and dessert shops: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 53 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #222 of 507 scored small-town markets
#11 of 28 scored small-town markets based in Ohio
- Listings
- 36
- 9 chain locations (25%)
- Official establishments
- 28
- All snack bars and retail bakeries · +33.3% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $166.3M
- On food away from home · $3,748 a household
- Spending per listing
- $4.6M
- 11% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 8.1
- 17% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 116,758
- −0.1% since 2020
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What this means
Households in the Wooster area spend about $166.3M a year on food away from home, or $3,748 per household, 8% below the U.S. average. Spread across 36 bakeries and dessert shops, that is $4.6M per shop, 11% above the U.S. figure of $4.1M. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only bakeries and dessert shops.
The Wooster area has 36 bakeries and dessert shops on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 25% of them, against 35% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 8.1, 17% below the U.S. rate of 9.8.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as snack bars and retail bakeries in the Wooster area was 28 in 2023, up 33.3% from 2019. That is one for every 1,584 households, against one for every 1,369 across the U.S. That count covers all snack bars and retail bakeries (coffee shops and cafes included), not only bakeries and dessert shops. Another 9 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $50K has gone to businesses classed as snack bars and retail bakeries in the Wooster area.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Wooster area declined 0.1%, against +3.1% for the U.S. The Wooster area scores 53 (upper middle) on the Groundwork market score for bakeries and dessert shops, ranking #222 of 507 scored small-town markets and #11 of 28 scored small-town markets based in Ohio.
How the Wooster area compares
The same measures for Ohio 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 | Wooster area | Ohio | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 8.1 | 8.3 | 9.8 |
| Spending per listing | $4.6M | $4.6M | $4.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all snack bars and retail bakeries) | 1,584 | 1,799 | 1,369 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +33.3% | +27.8% | +24.6% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −0.1% | +0.9% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,748 | $3,829 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $73,574 | $71,389 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 53 | 52 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 28All snack bars and retail bakeries · +33.3% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 281
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $4.9M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 9All snack bars and retail bakeries with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 369 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 40The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $50K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as snack bars and retail bakeries in the Wooster area, 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 the Wooster area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 116,758−0.1% since 2020
- Households
- 44,365
- Median age
- 39.4
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 77%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.8
- Land area
- 555 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 210
- Median household income
- $73,574+26.2% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $91,644
- Median home value
- $222,100
- Jobs located here
- 48,576
- Daytime population
- 113,893Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Ohio market ranked →The highest-scoring small-town markets in Ohio for bakeries and dessert shops, numbered among those based in Ohio, with the Wooster area marked.
Top small-town markets in Ohio
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Wilmington, OH | 79 | 8 | 4.8 | $7.7M | +0.6% | #16 of 507 |
| 2Mount Vernon, OH | 66 | 20 | 8.5 | $4.5M | +1.9% | #87 of 507 |
| 3Athens, OH | 63 | 14 | 6.1 | $5.5M | +1.3% | #111 of 507 |
| 4Zanesville, OH | 62 | 19 | 5.5 | $6.2M | +0.7% | #116 of 507 |
| 5Sidney, OH | 61 | 12 | 6.3 | $6M | −0.2% | #129 of 507 |
| 6Findlay, OH | 61 | 21 | 6.6 | $5.7M | +0.1% | #131 of 507 |
| 7Coshocton, OH | 61 | 10 | 6.8 | $4.8M | +1.6% | #136 of 507 |
| 8Urbana, OH | 60 | 12 | 7.7 | $4.9M | +0.2% | #145 of 507 |
| 9Marietta, OH | 56 | 15 | 6.1 | $5.7M | −2.1% | #185 of 507 |
| 10Cambridge, OH | 53 | 11 | 6.7 | $4.9M | −0.1% | #220 of 507 |
| 11Wooster, OH | 53 | 36 | 8.1 | $4.6M | −0.1% | #222 of 507 |
Other business types in the Wooster area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes76
- Sit-down restaurants80
- Fast food and sandwich shops61
- Pizza56
- Coffee shops and cafes62
- Bakeries and dessert shops53
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Questions
How many bakeries and dessert shops are in the Wooster, OH area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 36 bakeries and dessert shops in the Wooster area. 9 of them (25%) are chain locations. The listings count bakeries, ice cream, donut and dessert shops, candy stores. Official counts show 28 businesses with payroll classed as snack bars and retail bakeries in 2023, up 33.3% from 2019. The official count takes in all snack bars and retail bakeries, not only bakeries and dessert shops: coffee shops and cafes are counted too. Official counts list 9 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in the Wooster, OH area spend on food away from home?
About $166.3M a year, or $3,748 per household. That is 8% below the U.S. average (an index of 92, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 36 bakeries and dessert shops on map listings, it comes to $4.6M 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 44,365 households in the Wooster area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Wooster, OH area compare with the U.S. for bakeries and dessert shops?
The Wooster area has 8.1 bakeries and dessert shops per 10,000 households, 17% below the U.S. rate of 9.8. Spending per shop is $4.6M, 11% above the U.S. figure of $4.1M. At the U.S. ratio of bakeries and dessert shops to household spending, the Wooster area would have about 40, against 36 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,584 households, against one for every 1,369 across the U.S. The official count rose 33.3% from 2019 to 2023, against +24.6% for the U.S.
How fast is the Wooster, OH area growing?
Population estimates put the Wooster area at 116,758 people in 2025, down 0.1% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 44,365 households. The median household income in the Wooster area is $73,574 a year, 9% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 26.2% 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. A small-town market is a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people and the county or counties tied to it by commuting. 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. The Wooster area scores 53 for bakeries and dessert shops (upper middle), #222 of 507 scored small-town markets.
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