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Coffee shops and cafes in Sterling County, TX
How Sterling County, TX compares with other counties and the U.S. for coffee shops and cafes: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
- Listings
- 0
- None on the map
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $1.5M
- On food away from home · $3,742 a household
- Spending per listing
- n/a
- Listings per 10k households
- 0.0
- Population, 2025
- 1,349
- −2.5% since 2020
See the coffee shops and cafes around any address in Sterling County
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What this means
Household spending on food away from home in Sterling County comes to about $1.5M a year: $3,742 per household, 8% below the U.S. average. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only coffee shops and cafes.
Map listings as of September 2026 show no coffee shops and cafes in Sterling County.
Official counts don’t publish a figure for snack and nonalcoholic beverage bars in Sterling County, since they leave out counts under 3.
Population estimates put the population change in Sterling County from 2020 to 2025 at −2.5%, against +3.1% for the U.S. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t given a market score, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
How Sterling County compares
The same measures for Texas and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all food away from home by the coffee shops and cafes 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 | Sterling County | Texas | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 0.0 | 10.4 | 11.0 |
| Spending per listing | n/a | $3.8M | $3.7M |
| Households per official establishment (all snack and nonalcoholic beverage bars) | n/a | 1,458 | 1,518 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +38.2% | +24.3% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −2.5% | +8.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,742 | $3,970 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $64,954 | $78,476 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 62 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- n/aAll snack and nonalcoholic beverage bars
- Employees, 2023
- n/a
- Annual payroll, 2023
- n/a
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0All snack and nonalcoholic beverage bars with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 0
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 0The 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 and nonalcoholic beverage bars in Sterling 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 and nonalcoholic beverage bars, not only coffee shops and cafes.
Population and households in Sterling County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 1,349−2.5% since 2020
- Households
- 399
- Median age
- 32.1
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 78%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 923 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 2
- Median household income
- $64,954
- Average household income
- $97,198
- Median home value
- $147,000
- Jobs located here
- 481
- Daytime population
- 1,439Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
Looking at a specific site in Sterling County?
These figures cover the whole county. A site report draws rings around one address and counts what’s inside them: households, spending, jobs, and the coffee shops and cafes on map listings by name and distance.
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Top counties in Texas
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Waller County, TX | 89 | 14 | 7.6 | $5.4M | +21.9% | #27 of 2,063 |
| 2Llano County, TX | 83 | 5 | 4.6 | $8.1M | +9.5% | #62 of 2,063 |
| 3Guadalupe County, TX | 79 | 52 | 7.9 | $5.3M | +15.8% | #122 of 2,063 |
| 4Liberty County, TX | 78 | 19 | 6.1 | $5.9M | +31.3% | #138 of 2,063 |
| 5Rusk County, TX | 74 | 10 | 5.5 | $6.4M | +5.0% | #203 of 2,063 |
| 6Bandera County, TX | 74 | 7 | 7.6 | $4.9M | +9.0% | #213 of 2,063 |
| 7San Jacinto County, TX | 73 | 6 | 5.5 | $6.2M | +7.1% | #230 of 2,063 |
| 8Medina County, TX | 73 | 13 | 7.3 | $5.2M | +11.4% | #239 of 2,063 |
| 9Wilson County, TX | 73 | 16 | 8.8 | $4.8M | +12.2% | #241 of 2,063 |
| 10Washington County, TX | 72 | 13 | 8.4 | $4.5M | +7.0% | #256 of 2,063 |
| Sterling County, TX | Not scored | 0 | 0.0 | n/a | −2.5% |
Other business types in Sterling County
None has a Groundwork market score here. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
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Health care
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Questions
How many coffee shops and cafes are in Sterling County, TX?
There are no coffee shops and cafes on map listings in Sterling County as of September 2026. The listings count coffee, tea, juice and bubble tea shops, and cafes. No official count is published for snack and nonalcoholic beverage bars in Sterling County: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in Sterling County, TX spend on food away from home?
About $1.5M a year, or $3,742 per household. That is 8% below the U.S. average (an index of 92, where 100 is the U.S. average). That spending covers all food away from home, which coffee shops and cafes share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 399 households in Sterling County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Sterling County, TX compare with the U.S. for coffee shops and cafes?
Sterling County has no coffee shops and cafes on map listings.
How fast is Sterling County, TX growing?
Population estimates put Sterling County at 1,349 people in 2025, down 2.5% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 399 households. Median household income in Sterling County is $64,954, 20% below the U.S. median of $80,734.
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. The score leaves out counties under 10,000 people, where a handful of businesses would swing it.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
Run a Groundwork site report on an address in Sterling County. It maps the coffee shops and cafes on map listings near the site and sizes the households and spending within the distance you choose. New accounts get 10 actions over 3 days, no card.
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