Groceries and convenience · County · Maryland
Convenience stores in Kent County, MD
How Kent County, MD 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 59 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #807 of 2,261 scored counties
#16 of 24 scored counties in Maryland
- Listings
- 9
- 4 chain locations (44%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $52.2M
- On groceries · $6,151 a household
- Spending per listing
- $5.8M
- 26% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 10.6
- 33% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 19,565
- +2.3% since 2020
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What this means
Households in Kent County spend about $52.2M a year on groceries, or $6,151 per household, 3% below the U.S. average. That works out to $5.8M per store, 26% below the U.S. figure of $7.9M. The spending figure covers all groceries, not only convenience stores.
Kent County has 9 convenience stores on map listings as of September 2026. 4 of them (44%) are chain locations, against 60% across the U.S. That is 10.6 per 10,000 households, 33% above the U.S. rate of 8.0.
Official counts don’t publish a figure for convenience stores in Kent County, since they leave out counts under 3.
Population estimates put the population change in Kent County from 2020 to 2025 at +2.3%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). Kent County scores 59 (upper middle) on the Groundwork market score for convenience stores, ranking #807 of 2,261 scored counties and #16 of 24 scored counties in Maryland.
How Kent County compares
The same measures for Maryland 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 | Kent County | Maryland | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 10.6 | 6.7 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $5.8M | $10.1M | $7.9M |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 2,823 | 3,493 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +12.7% | +22.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +2.3% | +1.4% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $6,151 | $6,737 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $80,147 | $103,678 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 59 | 59 |
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
- 94 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
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as convenience stores in Kent 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 Kent County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 19,565+2.3% since 2020
- Households
- 8,493
- Median age
- 47.0
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 73%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 277 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 70
- Median household income
- $80,147+36.8% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $106,060
- Median home value
- $330,900
- Jobs located here
- 7,746
- Daytime population
- 19,068Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Maryland
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Frederick County, MD | 91 | 71 | 6.8 | $10.5M | +11.0% | #30 of 2,261 |
| 2Howard County, MD | 80 | 44 | 3.6 | $20.8M | +1.9% | #157 of 2,261 |
| 3Montgomery County, MD | 79 | 129 | 3.3 | $22M | +1.3% | #180 of 2,261 |
| 4Carroll County, MD | 79 | 42 | 6.5 | $10.7M | +2.2% | #191 of 2,261 |
| 5Queen Anne’s County, MD | 79 | 22 | 11.1 | $6.3M | +8.8% | #207 of 2,261 |
| 6St. Mary’s County, MD | 78 | 33 | 7.8 | $9M | +2.4% | #226 of 2,261 |
| 7Charles County, MD | 77 | 54 | 8.9 | $8M | +5.9% | #258 of 2,261 |
| 8Anne Arundel County, MD | 72 | 144 | 6.4 | $11.2M | +1.7% | #359 of 2,261 |
| 9Harford County, MD | 72 | 82 | 8.1 | $8.5M | +2.0% | #369 of 2,261 |
| 10Calvert County, MD | 72 | 29 | 8.7 | $8.4M | +1.7% | #370 of 2,261 |
| 16Kent County, MD | 59 | 9 | 10.6 | $5.8M | +2.3% | #807 of 2,261 |
Other business types in Kent County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
- Grocery and convenience stores49
- Grocery stores38
- Convenience stores59
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 Kent County, MD?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 9 convenience stores in Kent County. 4 of them (44%) are chain locations. The listings count convenience stores without fuel. No official count is published for convenience stores in Kent County: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in Kent County, MD spend on groceries?
About $52.2M a year, or $6,151 per household. That is 3% below the U.S. average (an index of 97, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 9 convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $5.8M 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 8,493 households in Kent County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Kent County, MD compare with the U.S. for convenience stores?
Kent County has 10.6 convenience stores per 10,000 households, 33% above the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per store is $5.8M, 26% below the U.S. figure of $7.9M. At the U.S. ratio of convenience stores to household spending, Kent County would have about 7, against 9 on map listings.
How fast is Kent County, MD growing?
Population estimates put Kent County at 19,565 people in 2025, up 2.3% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 8,493 households. The median household income in Kent County is $80,147 a year, in line with the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 36.8% 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. Kent County scores 59 for convenience stores (upper middle), #807 of 2,261 scored counties.
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