Food and drink · Small-town market · Utah
Bakeries and dessert shops in the Cedar City, UT area
The bakeries and dessert shops in the Cedar City, UT area, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other small-town markets.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 52 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #232 of 507 scored small-town markets
#2 of 5 scored small-town markets based in Utah
- Listings
- 17
- 4 chain locations (24%)
- Official establishments
- 24
- All snack bars and retail bakeries
- Household spending a year
- $72.4M
- On food away from home · $3,594 a household
- Spending per listing
- $4.3M
- 3% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 8.4
- 14% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 67,141
- +16.4% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 17 bakeries and dessert shops in the Cedar City area. Chain locations make up 24% of them, against 35% across the U.S. That comes to 8.4 for every 10,000 households, 14% below the U.S. rate of 9.8.
Households in the Cedar City area spend about $72.4M a year on food away from home, or $3,594 per household, 12% below the U.S. average. That is about $4.3M of household spending for each shop on map listings, 3% above the U.S. figure of $4.1M. That spending covers all food away from home, which bakeries and dessert shops share with other businesses in the trade.
In 2023, official counts showed 24 businesses with payroll in the Cedar City area classed as snack bars and retail bakeries. That is one for every 840 households, against one for every 1,369 across the U.S. 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 also show 4 one-person businesses without payroll. Since fiscal 2022, 2 SBA-backed loans worth $53K have gone to businesses classed as snack bars and retail bakeries in the Cedar City area.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Cedar City area grew 16.4%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). The Groundwork market score for bakeries and dessert shops in the Cedar City area is 52 (upper middle), #232 of 507 scored small-town markets and #2 of 5 scored small-town markets based in Utah.
How the Cedar City area compares
The same measures for Utah 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 | Cedar City area | Utah | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 8.4 | 12.1 | 9.8 |
| Spending per listing | $4.3M | $3.6M | $4.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all snack bars and retail bakeries) | 840 | 1,170 | 1,369 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +36.1% | +24.6% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +16.4% | +7.8% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,594 | $4,339 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $66,247 | $95,166 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 52 | 47 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 24All snack bars and retail bakeries
- Employees, 2023
- 266
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $2.8M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 4All snack bars and retail bakeries with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 174 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 18The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 2
- Amount
- $53K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as snack bars and retail bakeries in the Cedar City 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 Cedar City area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 67,141+16.4% since 2020
- Households
- 20,157
- Median age
- 31.9
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 68%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.3
- Land area
- 3,296 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 19
- Median household income
- $66,247+27.9% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $89,495
- Median home value
- $379,000
- Jobs located here
- 23,946
- Daytime population
- 58,964Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Utah market ranked →The highest-scoring small-town markets in Utah for bakeries and dessert shops, numbered among those based in Utah (a market based in another state is listed without a number), with the Cedar City area marked.
Top small-town markets in Utah
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Brigham City, UT-ID | 59 | 22 | 10.2 | $3.8M | +12.6% | #164 of 507 |
| 2Cedar City, UT | 52 | 17 | 8.4 | $4.3M | +16.4% | #232 of 507 |
| 3Vernal, UT | 49 | 12 | 9.9 | $3.7M | +7.3% | #273 of 507 |
| 4Price, UT | 47 | 6 | 7.4 | $4.4M | +1.0% | #283 of 507 |
| Evanston, WY-UT | 45 | 18 | 20.8 | $1.8M | +2.0% | #309 of 507 |
| 5Heber, UT | 44 | 49 | 17.1 | $3M | +5.3% | #322 of 507 |
Other business types in the Cedar City area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes48
- Sit-down restaurants50
- Fast food and sandwich shops47
- Pizza62
- Coffee shops and cafes39
- Bakeries and dessert shops52
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Questions
How many bakeries and dessert shops are in the Cedar City, UT area?
There are 17 bakeries and dessert shops on map listings in the Cedar City area as of September 2026. 4 of them (24%) are chain locations. The listings count bakeries, ice cream, donut and dessert shops, candy stores. Official counts show 24 businesses with payroll classed as snack bars and retail bakeries in 2023. That count covers all snack bars and retail bakeries (coffee shops and cafes included), not only bakeries and dessert shops. Another 4 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.
How much do households in the Cedar City, UT area spend on food away from home?
About $72.4M a year, or $3,594 per household. That is 12% below the U.S. average (an index of 88, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 17 bakeries and dessert shops on map listings, it comes to $4.3M per shop. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only bakeries and dessert shops. It is estimated from the incomes of the 20,157 households in the Cedar City area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Cedar City, UT area compare with the U.S. for bakeries and dessert shops?
The Cedar City area has 8.4 bakeries and dessert shops per 10,000 households, 14% below the U.S. rate of 9.8. Spending per shop is $4.3M, 3% above the U.S. figure of $4.1M. At the national ratio of bakeries and dessert shops to household spending, the Cedar City area would have about 18, against 17 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 840 households, against one for every 1,369 across the U.S.
How fast is the Cedar City, UT area growing?
Population estimates put the Cedar City area at 67,141 people in 2025, up 16.4% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 20,157 households. Median household income in the Cedar City area is $66,247, 18% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 27.9%, 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 Cedar City area scores 52 for bakeries and dessert shops (upper middle), #232 of 507 scored small-town markets.
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