Groceries and convenience · County · Louisiana
Convenience stores in Lafourche Parish, LA
How Lafourche Parish, LA 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 48 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #1,199 of 2,261 scored counties
#10 of 53 scored counties in Louisiana
- Listings
- 39
- 13 chain locations (33%)
- Official establishments
- 7
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $216.9M
- On groceries · $5,744 a household
- Spending per listing
- $5.6M
- 29% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 10.3
- 29% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 95,505
- −2.0% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 39 convenience stores in Lafourche Parish. 13 of them (33%) are chain locations, against 60% across the U.S. That comes to 10.3 for every 10,000 households, 29% above the U.S. rate of 8.0.
Household spending on groceries in Lafourche Parish comes to about $216.9M a year: $5,744 per household, 9% below the U.S. average. Spread across 39 convenience stores, that is $5.6M per store, 29% below the U.S. figure of $7.9M. That spending covers all groceries, which convenience stores share with other businesses in the trade.
In 2023, official counts showed 7 businesses with payroll in Lafourche Parish classed as convenience stores. That is one for every 5,395 households, against one for every 3,493 across the U.S.
Population estimates show Lafourche Parish declined 2.0% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S. For convenience stores, Lafourche Parish has a Groundwork market score of 48 (lower middle): #1,199 of 2,261 scored counties and #10 of 53 scored counties in Louisiana.
How Lafourche Parish compares
The same measures for Louisiana 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 | Lafourche Parish | Louisiana | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 10.3 | 11.6 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $5.6M | $4.9M | $7.9M |
| Households per official establishment | 5,395 | 2,978 | 3,493 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +25.7% | +22.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −2.0% | −0.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $5,744 | $5,704 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $63,135 | $60,756 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 48 | 12 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 8 → 7
- Employees, 2023
- 33
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $698K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 3913 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 28The 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 Lafourche Parish, 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 Lafourche Parish
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 95,505−2.0% since 2020
- Households
- 37,762
- Median age
- 39.9
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 80%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.8
- Land area
- 1,070 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 90
- Median household income
- $63,135+13.7% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $84,949
- Median home value
- $193,900
- Jobs located here
- 34,277
- Daytime population
- 87,703Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Louisiana
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Ascension Parish, LA | 78 | 38 | 8.0 | $8.1M | +6.4% | #231 of 2,261 |
| 2St. Tammany Parish, LA | 76 | 88 | 8.4 | $7.5M | +5.3% | #283 of 2,261 |
| 3Bossier Parish, LA | 63 | 43 | 8.5 | $6.9M | +2.5% | #657 of 2,261 |
| 4Livingston Parish, LA | 63 | 69 | 12.9 | $4.7M | +8.5% | #666 of 2,261 |
| 5West Baton Rouge Parish, LA | 57 | 12 | 10.9 | $5.6M | +5.5% | #877 of 2,261 |
| 6Jefferson Parish, LA | 55 | 120 | 6.8 | $8.6M | −1.9% | #921 of 2,261 |
| 7De Soto Parish, LA | 51 | 8 | 7.6 | $7.1M | +2.0% | #1,077 of 2,261 |
| 8St. Bernard Parish, LA | 51 | 14 | 8.6 | $6.5M | +4.1% | #1,081 of 2,261 |
| 9St. Charles Parish, LA | 49 | 23 | 12.4 | $5M | −3.7% | #1,167 of 2,261 |
| 10Lafourche Parish, LA | 48 | 39 | 10.3 | $5.6M | −2.0% | #1,199 of 2,261 |
Other business types in Lafourche Parish
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
- Grocery and convenience stores47
- Grocery stores54
- Convenience stores48
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 Lafourche Parish, LA?
There are 39 convenience stores on map listings in Lafourche Parish as of September 2026. 13 of them (33%) are chain locations. The listings count convenience stores without fuel. Official counts show 7 businesses with payroll classed as convenience stores in 2023.
How much do households in Lafourche Parish, LA spend on groceries?
About $216.9M a year, or $5,744 per household. That is 9% below the U.S. average (an index of 91, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 39 convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $5.6M per store. The spending figure covers all groceries, not only convenience stores. It is estimated from the incomes of the 37,762 households in Lafourche Parish and national spending patterns by income.
How does Lafourche Parish, LA compare with the U.S. for convenience stores?
Lafourche Parish has 10.3 convenience stores per 10,000 households, 29% above the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per store is $5.6M, 29% below the U.S. figure of $7.9M. At the national ratio of convenience stores to household spending, Lafourche Parish would have about 28, against 39 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 5,395 households, against one for every 3,493 across the U.S.
How fast is Lafourche Parish, LA growing?
Population estimates put Lafourche Parish at 95,505 people in 2025, down 2.0% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 37,762 households. Median household income in Lafourche Parish is $63,135, 22% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 13.7%, 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. Lafourche Parish scores 48 for convenience stores (lower middle), #1,199 of 2,261 scored counties.
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