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Coffee shops and cafes in Young County, TX
How Young 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 · out of 100
Score 29 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #1,794 of 2,063 scored counties
#136 of 150 scored counties in Texas
- Listings
- 12
- 4 chain locations (33%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $26.8M
- On food away from home · $3,500 a household
- Spending per listing
- $2.2M
- 40% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 15.7
- 43% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 18,154
- +1.7% since 2020
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What this means
The Groundwork market score for coffee shops and cafes in Young County is 29 (lower middle), #1,794 of 2,063 scored counties and #136 of 150 scored counties in Texas. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Households in Young County spend about $26.8M a year on food away from home, or $3,500 per household, 14% below the U.S. average. Spread across 12 coffee shops and cafes, that is $2.2M per cafe, 40% below the U.S. figure of $3.7M. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only coffee shops and cafes.
Young County has 12 coffee shops and cafes on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 33% of them, against 39% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 15.7, 43% above the U.S. rate of 11.0.
Official counts don’t publish a figure for snack and nonalcoholic beverage bars in Young County, since they leave out counts under 3. Since fiscal 2022, 2 SBA-backed loans worth $568K have gone to businesses classed as snack and nonalcoholic beverage bars in Young County. Population estimates show Young County grew 1.7% from 2020 to 2025, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How Young 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 | Young County | Texas | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 15.7 | 10.4 | 11.0 |
| Spending per listing | $2.2M | $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 | +1.7% | +8.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,500 | $3,970 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $68,010 | $78,476 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 29 | 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
- 3All snack and nonalcoholic beverage bars with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 124 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 7The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 2
- Amount
- $568K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as snack and nonalcoholic beverage bars in Young 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 Young County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 18,154+1.7% since 2020
- Households
- 7,643
- Median age
- 41.8
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 74%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.8
- Land area
- 915 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 20
- Median household income
- $68,010+34.3% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $88,767
- Median home value
- $175,800
- Jobs located here
- 6,560
- Daytime population
- 16,034Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Texas market ranked →The highest-scoring counties in Texas for coffee shops and cafes, numbered among those based in Texas, with Young County marked.
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 |
| 136Young County, TX | 29 | 12 | 15.7 | $2.2M | +1.7% | #1,794 of 2,063 |
Other business types in Young County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes27
- Sit-down restaurants29
- Fast food and sandwich shops23
- Pizza30
- Coffee shops and cafes29
- Bakeries and dessert shops35
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Questions
How many coffee shops and cafes are in Young County, TX?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 12 coffee shops and cafes in Young County. 4 of them (33%) are chain locations. The listings count coffee, tea, juice and bubble tea shops, and cafes. No official count is published for snack and nonalcoholic beverage bars in Young County: counts under 3 are left out. Official counts also show 3 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Young County, TX spend on food away from home?
About $26.8M a year, or $3,500 per household. That is 14% below the U.S. average (an index of 86, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 12 coffee shops and cafes on map listings, it comes to $2.2M per cafe. 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 7,643 households in Young County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Young County, TX compare with the U.S. for coffee shops and cafes?
Young County has 15.7 coffee shops and cafes per 10,000 households, 43% above the U.S. rate of 11.0. Spending per cafe is $2.2M, 40% below the U.S. figure of $3.7M. At the U.S. ratio of coffee shops and cafes to household spending, Young County would have about 7, against 12 on map listings.
How fast is Young County, TX growing?
Population estimates put Young County at 18,154 people in 2025, up 1.7% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 7,643 households. Median household income in Young County is $68,010, 16% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 34.3%, 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. Young County scores 29 for coffee shops and cafes (lower middle), #1,794 of 2,063 scored counties.
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