Groceries and convenience · County · Louisiana
Convenience stores in St. Helena Parish, LA
How St. Helena Parish, LA 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 3.
- Listings
- 3
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $21.2M
- On groceries · $5,082 a household
- Spending per listing
- $7.1M
- 10% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 7.2
- 10% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 10,758
- −1.2% since 2020
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 3 convenience stores in St. Helena Parish. That is 7.2 per 10,000 households, 10% below the U.S. rate of 8.0.
At $5,082 per household (20% below the U.S. average), households in St. Helena Parish spend about $21.2M a year on groceries. Spread across 3 convenience stores, that is $7.1M per store, 10% below the U.S. figure of $7.9M. That spending covers all groceries, which convenience stores share with other businesses in the trade.
There is no official count of businesses with payroll classed as convenience stores in St. Helena Parish: counts under 3 aren’t published.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of St. Helena Parish declined 1.2%, against +3.1% for the U.S. With 3 convenience stores on map listings, St. Helena Parish isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How St. Helena 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 | St. Helena Parish | Louisiana | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 7.2 | 11.6 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $7.1M | $4.9M | $7.9M |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 2,978 | 3,493 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +25.7% | +22.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −1.2% | −0.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $5,082 | $5,704 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $41,934 | $60,756 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 12 |
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
- 30 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 3The 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 St. Helena 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 St. Helena Parish
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 10,758−1.2% since 2020
- Households
- 4,176
- Median age
- 42.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 79%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.7
- Land area
- 409 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 27
- Median household income
- $41,934−4.4% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $58,968
- Median home value
- $77,300
- Jobs located here
- 1,872
- Daytime population
- 8,374Residents 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 |
| St. Helena Parish, LA | Not scored | 3 | 7.2 | $7.1M | −1.2% |
Other business types in St. Helena Parish
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
- Grocery and convenience stores15
- Grocery stores8
- 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 St. Helena Parish, LA?
St. Helena Parish has 3 convenience stores on map listings as of September 2026. The listings count convenience stores without fuel. No official count is published for convenience stores in St. Helena Parish: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in St. Helena Parish, LA spend on groceries?
About $21.2M a year, or $5,082 per household. That is 20% below the U.S. average (an index of 80, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 3 convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $7.1M per store. The spending figure covers all groceries, not only convenience stores. It is estimated from the incomes of the 4,176 households in St. Helena Parish and national spending patterns by income.
How does St. Helena Parish, LA compare with the U.S. for convenience stores?
St. Helena Parish has 7.2 convenience stores per 10,000 households, 10% below the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per store is $7.1M, 10% below the U.S. figure of $7.9M. The count on map listings matches the U.S. ratio of convenience stores to household spending.
How fast is St. Helena Parish, LA growing?
Population estimates put St. Helena Parish at 10,758 people in 2025, down 1.2% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 4,176 households. Median household income in St. Helena Parish is $41,934, 48% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median fell 4.4%, 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. St. Helena Parish has no market score for convenience stores: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 3.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
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