Groceries and convenience · County · Colorado
Convenience stores in Archuleta County, CO
How Archuleta County, CO compares with other counties and the U.S. for convenience stores: 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
- 1 chain location (100%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $35.9M
- On groceries · $6,064 a household
- Spending per listing
- $35.9M
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 1.7
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 14,306
- +6.6% since 2020
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What this means
At $6,064 per household (4% below the U.S. average), households in Archuleta County spend about $35.9M a year on groceries. That works out to $35.9M per store. The spending figure covers all groceries, not only convenience stores.
There is 1 convenience store on map listings in Archuleta County as of September 2026. That is 1.7 per 10,000 households.
Official counts don’t publish a figure for convenience stores in Archuleta County, since they leave out counts under 3.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Archuleta County grew 6.6%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). With 1 convenience store on map listings, Archuleta County isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How Archuleta County compares
The same measures for Colorado and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all groceries by the convenience stores 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 | Archuleta County | Colorado | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 1.7 | 7.1 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $35.9M | $9.2M | $7.9M |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 7,862 | 3,493 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +21.8% | +22.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +6.6% | +3.9% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $6,064 | $6,458 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $83,065 | $95,470 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 73 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- n/a
- Employees, 2023
- n/a
- Annual payroll, 2023
- n/a
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 11 chain location
- 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
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as convenience stores in Archuleta 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.
Population and households in Archuleta County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 14,306+6.6% since 2020
- Households
- 5,921
- Median age
- 50.6
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 80%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 1,350 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 10
- Median household income
- $83,065+59.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $102,901
- Median home value
- $478,100
- Jobs located here
- 4,733
- Daytime population
- 13,522Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Colorado
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Douglas County, CO | 98 | 71 | 5.1 | $14.7M | +10.9% | #2 of 2,261 |
| 2Broomfield County, CO | 94 | 11 | 3.5 | $20.4M | +6.3% | #9 of 2,261 |
| 3Weld County, CO | 91 | 82 | 6.6 | $9.7M | +14.2% | #31 of 2,261 |
| 4Larimer County, CO | 88 | 85 | 5.5 | $11.6M | +4.8% | #56 of 2,261 |
| 5Park County, CO | 84 | 6 | 6.7 | $9.7M | +5.1% | #105 of 2,261 |
| 6Arapahoe County, CO | 82 | 158 | 6.1 | $10.7M | +2.8% | #130 of 2,261 |
| 7Adams County, CO | 81 | 144 | 7.6 | $8.4M | +6.6% | #153 of 2,261 |
| 8Boulder County, CO | 80 | 72 | 5.3 | $12.7M | −0.7% | #163 of 2,261 |
| 9Denver County, CO | 80 | 220 | 6.6 | $9.9M | +3.2% | #169 of 2,261 |
| 10Jefferson County, CO | 79 | 146 | 6.0 | $11.2M | −0.5% | #187 of 2,261 |
| Archuleta County, CO | Not scored | 1 | 1.7 | $35.9M | +6.6% |
Other business types in Archuleta County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
- Grocery and convenience stores65
- Grocery stores48
- Convenience stores
Auto
Beauty and personal care
Fitness and classes
Health care
Child care
Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many convenience stores are in Archuleta County, CO?
As of September 2026, map listings count 1 convenience store in Archuleta County. The listings count convenience stores without fuel. No official count is published for convenience stores in Archuleta County: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in Archuleta County, CO spend on groceries?
About $35.9M a year, or $6,064 per household. That is 4% below the U.S. average (an index of 96, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1 convenience store on map listings, it comes to $35.9M per store. That spending covers all groceries, which convenience stores share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 5,921 households in Archuleta County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Archuleta County, CO compare with the U.S. for convenience stores?
Archuleta County has 1 convenience store on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the U.S. ratio of convenience stores to household spending, Archuleta County would have about 5, against 1 on map listings.
How fast is Archuleta County, CO growing?
Population estimates put Archuleta County at 14,306 people in 2025, up 6.6% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 5,921 households. The median household income in Archuleta County is $83,065 a year, 3% above the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 59.1% 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. Archuleta County has no market score for convenience stores: 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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