Groceries and convenience · County · Florida
Convenience stores in Hendry County, FL
How Hendry County, FL compares with other counties and the U.S. for convenience stores: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 32 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #1,757 of 2,261 scored counties
#55 of 63 scored counties in Florida
- Listings
- 23
- 10 chain locations (43%)
- Official establishments
- 16
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $79.2M
- On groceries · $5,608 a household
- Spending per listing
- $3.4M
- 56% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 16.3
- Twice the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 48,276
- +21.5% since 2020
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What this means
For convenience stores, Hendry County has a Groundwork market score of 32 (lower middle): #1,757 of 2,261 scored counties and #55 of 63 scored counties in Florida. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Household spending on groceries in Hendry County comes to about $79.2M a year: $5,608 per household, 11% below the U.S. average. That is about $3.4M of household spending for each store on map listings, 56% below the U.S. figure of $7.9M. The spending figure covers all groceries, not only convenience stores.
Hendry County has 23 convenience stores on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 43% of them, against 60% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 16.3, twice the U.S. rate of 8.0.
In 2023, official counts showed 16 businesses with payroll in Hendry County classed as convenience stores. That is one for every 883 households, against one for every 3,493 across the U.S. Population estimates put the population change in Hendry County from 2020 to 2025 at +21.5%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How Hendry County compares
The same measures for Florida 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 | Hendry County | Florida | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 16.3 | 7.6 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $3.4M | $8M | $7.9M |
| Households per official establishment | 883 | 2,728 | 3,493 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +16.7% | +22.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +21.5% | +8.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $5,608 | $6,077 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $56,393 | $74,568 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 32 | 54 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 13 → 16
- Employees, 2023
- 53
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $1.3M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 2310 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 10The 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 Hendry 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 Hendry County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 48,276+21.5% since 2020
- Households
- 14,130
- Median age
- 37.1
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 74%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 1,156 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 37
- Median household income
- $56,393+38.2% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $81,528
- Median home value
- $219,200
- Jobs located here
- 11,993
- Daytime population
- 37,882Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Florida
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1St. Johns County, FL | 90 | 86 | 7.4 | $9.3M | +25.0% | #38 of 2,261 |
| 2Flagler County, FL | 88 | 33 | 6.3 | $9.7M | +21.0% | #63 of 2,261 |
| 3Sumter County, FL | 87 | 44 | 6.3 | $9.7M | +21.1% | #72 of 2,261 |
| 4Santa Rosa County, FL | 82 | 64 | 8.8 | $7.3M | +11.7% | #134 of 2,261 |
| 5Sarasota County, FL | 81 | 120 | 5.7 | $11.1M | +10.0% | #139 of 2,261 |
| 6Collier County, FL | 80 | 108 | 6.5 | $10M | +10.6% | #168 of 2,261 |
| 7Clay County, FL | 80 | 66 | 7.9 | $8M | +9.4% | #174 of 2,261 |
| 8Walton County, FL | 80 | 34 | 9.9 | $6.4M | +22.9% | #179 of 2,261 |
| 9Charlotte County, FL | 78 | 62 | 6.8 | $8.6M | +15.5% | #229 of 2,261 |
| 10Lee County, FL | 77 | 234 | 7.1 | $8.5M | +14.4% | #254 of 2,261 |
| 55Hendry County, FL | 32 | 23 | 16.3 | $3.4M | +21.5% | #1,757 of 2,261 |
Other business types in Hendry County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
- Grocery and convenience stores29
- Grocery stores30
- Convenience stores32
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 Hendry County, FL?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 23 convenience stores in Hendry County. 10 of them (43%) are chain locations. The listings count convenience stores without fuel. Official counts show 16 businesses with payroll classed as convenience stores in 2023.
How much do households in Hendry County, FL spend on groceries?
About $79.2M a year, or $5,608 per household. That is 11% below the U.S. average (an index of 89, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 23 convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $3.4M 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 14,130 households in Hendry County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Hendry County, FL compare with the U.S. for convenience stores?
Hendry County has 16.3 convenience stores per 10,000 households, twice the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per store is $3.4M, 56% below the U.S. figure of $7.9M. At the U.S. ratio of convenience stores to household spending, Hendry County would have about 10, against 23 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 883 households, against one for every 3,493 across the U.S.
How fast is Hendry County, FL growing?
Population estimates put Hendry County at 48,276 people in 2025, up 21.5% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 14,130 households. The median household income in Hendry County is $56,393 a year, 30% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 38.2% 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. Hendry County scores 32 for convenience stores (lower middle), #1,757 of 2,261 scored counties.
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