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Bakeries and dessert shops in Skamania County, WA
How Skamania County, WA 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 2.
- Listings
- 2
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 4
- All snack bars and retail bakeries
- Household spending a year
- $21.3M
- On food away from home · $4,248 a household
- Spending per listing
- $10.7M
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 4.0
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 12,669
- +5.2% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 2 bakeries and dessert shops in Skamania County. That is 4.0 per 10,000 households.
Households in Skamania County spend about $21.3M a year on food away from home, or $4,248 per household, 4% above the U.S. average. Spread across 2 bakeries and dessert shops, that is $10.7M per shop. That spending covers all food away from home, which bakeries and dessert shops share with other businesses in the trade.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as snack bars and retail bakeries in Skamania County was 4 in 2023. That is one for every 1,255 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. Since fiscal 2022, 2 SBA-backed loans worth $28K have gone to businesses classed as snack bars and retail bakeries in Skamania County.
Population estimates show Skamania County grew 5.2% from 2020 to 2025, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). With 2 bakeries and dessert shops on map listings, Skamania County isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How Skamania County compares
The same measures for Washington 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 | Skamania County | Washington | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 4.0 | 7.3 | 9.8 |
| Spending per listing | $10.7M | $6.1M | $4.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all snack bars and retail bakeries) | 1,255 | 902 | 1,369 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +14.9% | +24.6% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +5.2% | +3.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $4,248 | $4,501 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $93,265 | $98,141 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 67 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 5 → 4All snack bars and retail bakeries
- Employees, 2023
- 17
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $432K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0All snack bars and retail bakeries with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 20 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 5The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 2
- Amount
- $28K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as snack bars and retail bakeries in Skamania 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 Skamania County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 12,669+5.2% since 2020
- Households
- 5,019
- Median age
- 49.0
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 80%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.4
- Land area
- 1,658 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 7
- Median household income
- $93,265+43.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $114,147
- Median home value
- $529,500
- Jobs located here
- 2,184
- Daytime population
- 8,513Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Washington market ranked →The highest-scoring counties in Washington for bakeries and dessert shops, numbered among those based in Washington, with Skamania County marked.
Top counties in Washington
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Clark County, WA | 72 | 105 | 5.4 | $8.2M | +5.3% | #214 of 1,889 |
| 2Douglas County, WA | 72 | 10 | 6.3 | $6.5M | +8.0% | #216 of 1,889 |
| 3Mason County, WA | 71 | 12 | 4.6 | $8.7M | +7.8% | #230 of 1,889 |
| 4Snohomish County, WA | 69 | 192 | 6.1 | $7.9M | +4.9% | #278 of 1,889 |
| 5Pierce County, WA | 67 | 179 | 5.1 | $8.7M | +2.5% | #322 of 1,889 |
| 6Lewis County, WA | 64 | 15 | 4.6 | $8.2M | +6.7% | #408 of 1,889 |
| 7Thurston County, WA | 64 | 72 | 6.1 | $7.1M | +2.8% | #412 of 1,889 |
| 8Jefferson County, WA | 64 | 9 | 5.5 | $7M | +2.7% | #413 of 1,889 |
| 9Cowlitz County, WA | 61 | 23 | 5.2 | $7.2M | +3.5% | #490 of 1,889 |
| 10Kitsap County, WA | 61 | 82 | 7.6 | $6M | +2.7% | #496 of 1,889 |
| Skamania County, WA | Not scored | 2 | 4.0 | $10.7M | +5.2% |
Other business types in Skamania County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes77
- Sit-down restaurants89
- Fast food and sandwich shops
- Pizza
- Coffee shops and cafes41
- Bakeries and dessert shops
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Questions
How many bakeries and dessert shops are in Skamania County, WA?
There are 2 bakeries and dessert shops on map listings in Skamania County as of September 2026. 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. That count covers all snack bars and retail bakeries (coffee shops and cafes included), not only bakeries and dessert shops.
How much do households in Skamania County, WA spend on food away from home?
About $21.3M a year, or $4,248 per household. That is 4% above the U.S. average (an index of 104, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 2 bakeries and dessert shops on map listings, it comes to $10.7M 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 5,019 households in Skamania County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Skamania County, WA compare with the U.S. for bakeries and dessert shops?
Skamania County has 2 bakeries and dessert shops on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the national ratio of bakeries and dessert shops to household spending, Skamania County would have about 5, against 2 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,255 households, against one for every 1,369 across the U.S.
How fast is Skamania County, WA growing?
Population estimates put Skamania County at 12,669 people in 2025, up 5.2% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 5,019 households. Median household income in Skamania County is $93,265, 16% above the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 43.1%, 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. Skamania County has no market score for bakeries and dessert shops: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 2.
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