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Bakeries and dessert shops in Wayne County, TN
How Wayne County, TN 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 1.
- Listings
- 1
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 4
- All snack bars and retail bakeries
- Household spending a year
- $18.3M
- On food away from home · $3,061 a household
- Spending per listing
- $18.3M
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 1.7
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 16,416
- +1.2% since 2020
See the bakeries and dessert shops around any address in Wayne County
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What this means
At $3,061 per household (25% below the U.S. average), households in Wayne County spend about $18.3M a year on food away from home. That works out to $18.3M per shop. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only bakeries and dessert shops.
Wayne County has 1 bakery or dessert shop on map listings as of September 2026. That is 1.7 per 10,000 households.
In 2023, official counts showed 4 businesses with payroll in Wayne County classed as snack bars and retail bakeries. That is one for every 1,496 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.
Population estimates show Wayne County grew 1.2% from 2020 to 2025, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). With 1 bakery or dessert shop on map listings, Wayne County isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How Wayne 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 | Wayne County | Tennessee | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 1.7 | 8.2 | 9.8 |
| Spending per listing | $18.3M | $4.5M | $4.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all snack bars and retail bakeries) | 1,496 | 1,740 | 1,369 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +60.1% | +24.6% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +1.2% | +5.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,061 | $3,670 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $52,294 | $69,595 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 56 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 4All snack bars and retail bakeries
- Employees, 2023
- 7
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $104K
- 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
- 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 Wayne 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 Wayne County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 16,416+1.2% since 2020
- Households
- 5,982
- Median age
- 44.9
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 80%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.2
- Land area
- 734 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 22
- Median household income
- $52,294+26.2% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $67,516
- Median home value
- $130,700
- Jobs located here
- 4,044
- Daytime population
- 13,981Residents 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 |
| Wayne County, TN | Not scored | 1 | 1.7 | $18.3M | +1.2% |
Other business types in Wayne County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes65
- Sit-down restaurants61
- Fast food and sandwich shops
- Pizza
- Coffee shops and cafes24
- Bakeries and dessert shops
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Fitness and classes
Health care
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Questions
How many bakeries and dessert shops are in Wayne County, TN?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 1 bakery or dessert shop in Wayne County. The listings count bakeries, ice cream, donut and dessert shops, candy stores. Official counts show 4 businesses with payroll classed as snack bars and retail bakeries in 2023. The official count takes in all snack bars and retail bakeries, not only bakeries and dessert shops: coffee shops and cafes are counted too.
How much do households in Wayne County, TN spend on food away from home?
About $18.3M a year, or $3,061 per household. That is 25% below the U.S. average (an index of 75, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1 bakery or dessert shop on map listings, it comes to $18.3M 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 5,982 households in Wayne County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Wayne County, TN compare with the U.S. for bakeries and dessert shops?
Wayne 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, Wayne County would have about 4, against 1 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,496 households, against one for every 1,369 across the U.S.
How fast is Wayne County, TN growing?
Population estimates put Wayne County at 16,416 people in 2025, up 1.2% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 5,982 households. The median household income in Wayne County is $52,294 a year, 35% 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. 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. Wayne 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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