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Bakeries and dessert shops in Decatur County, TN
Competitor counts, household spending and official business counts for bakeries and dessert shops in Decatur County, TN, 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
- $13.5M
- On food away from home · $2,961 a household
- Spending per listing
- $13.5M
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 2.2
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 11,820
- +3.4% since 2020
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What this means
Households in Decatur County spend about $13.5M a year on food away from home, or $2,961 per household, 27% below the U.S. average. That is about $13.5M of household spending for each shop on map listings. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only bakeries and dessert shops.
Decatur County has 1 bakery or dessert shop on map listings as of September 2026. That is 2.2 per 10,000 households.
Official counts don’t publish a figure for snack bars and retail bakeries in Decatur County, since they leave out counts under 3.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Decatur County grew 3.4%, in step with the U.S. (+3.1%). With 1 bakery or dessert shop on map listings, Decatur County isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How Decatur County compares
The same measures for Tennessee 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 | Decatur County | Tennessee | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 2.2 | 8.2 | 9.8 |
| Spending per listing | $13.5M | $4.5M | $4.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all snack bars and retail bakeries) | n/a | 1,740 | 1,369 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +60.1% | +24.6% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +3.4% | +5.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $2,961 | $3,670 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $45,375 | $69,595 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 56 |
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
- 10 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 3The 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 Decatur 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 Decatur County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 11,820+3.4% since 2020
- Households
- 4,568
- Median age
- 46.8
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 74%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 334 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 35
- Median household income
- $45,375+8.0% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $63,847
- Median home value
- $139,600
- Jobs located here
- 3,527
- Daytime population
- 10,690Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Tennessee
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Fayette County, TN | 93 | 5 | 2.9 | $13.8M | +7.7% | #5 of 1,889 |
| 2Roane County, TN | 86 | 8 | 3.5 | $10.3M | +7.0% | #33 of 1,889 |
| 3Cheatham County, TN | 84 | 5 | 3.1 | $12.9M | +4.1% | #54 of 1,889 |
| 4Jefferson County, TN | 82 | 10 | 4.6 | $7.6M | +9.3% | #69 of 1,889 |
| 5Loudon County, TN | 81 | 14 | 5.8 | $6.8M | +15.6% | #75 of 1,889 |
| 6Robertson County, TN | 78 | 16 | 5.7 | $6.8M | +9.9% | #109 of 1,889 |
| 7Sumner County, TN | 78 | 51 | 6.5 | $6.4M | +9.2% | #114 of 1,889 |
| 8Hawkins County, TN | 77 | 8 | 3.4 | $9.3M | +5.0% | #123 of 1,889 |
| 9Giles County, TN | 74 | 7 | 5.8 | $6M | +3.6% | #185 of 1,889 |
| 10Bedford County, TN | 74 | 13 | 6.7 | $5.2M | +9.7% | #193 of 1,889 |
| Decatur County, TN | Not scored | 1 | 2.2 | $13.5M | +3.4% |
Other business types in Decatur County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes33
- Sit-down restaurants28
- Fast food and sandwich shops42
- Pizza38
- Coffee shops and cafes28
- Bakeries and dessert shops
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Questions
How many bakeries and dessert shops are in Decatur County, TN?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 1 bakery or dessert shop in Decatur 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 Decatur County: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in Decatur County, TN spend on food away from home?
About $13.5M a year, or $2,961 per household. That is 27% below the U.S. average (an index of 73, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1 bakery or dessert shop on map listings, it comes to $13.5M 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 4,568 households in Decatur County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Decatur County, TN compare with the U.S. for bakeries and dessert shops?
Decatur 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, Decatur County would have about 3, against 1 on map listings.
How fast is Decatur County, TN growing?
Population estimates put Decatur County at 11,820 people in 2025, up 3.4% since 2020, in step with the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 4,568 households. The median household income in Decatur County is $45,375 a year, 44% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 8.0% 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. Decatur 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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