Groceries and convenience · Small-town market · South Dakota
Convenience stores in the Spearfish, SD area
How the Spearfish, SD area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for convenience stores: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 76 out of 100: High
Ranked #50 of 529 scored small-town markets
#3 of 9 scored small-town markets based in South Dakota
- Listings
- 11
- 8 chain locations (73%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $70.7M
- On groceries · $5,868 a household
- Spending per listing
- $6.4M
- 18% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 9.1
- 14% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 29,459
- +14.0% since 2020
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What this means
For convenience stores, the Spearfish area has a Groundwork market score of 76 (high): #50 of 529 scored small-town markets and #3 of 9 scored small-town markets based in South Dakota. That puts it in the top 10% of small-town markets for convenience stores.
Households in the Spearfish area spend about $70.7M a year on groceries, or $5,868 per household, 7% below the U.S. average. That works out to $6.4M per store, 18% below the U.S. figure of $7.9M. The spending figure covers all groceries, not only convenience stores.
The Spearfish area has 11 convenience stores on map listings as of September 2026. 8 of them (73%) are chain locations, against 60% across the U.S. That is 9.1 per 10,000 households, 14% above the U.S. rate of 8.0.
Official counts don’t publish a figure for convenience stores in the Spearfish area, since they leave out counts under 3. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Spearfish area grew 14.0%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How the Spearfish area compares
The same measures for South Dakota 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 | Spearfish area | South Dakota | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 9.1 | 12.1 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $6.4M | $5M | $7.9M |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 11,077 | 3,493 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | n/a | +22.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +14.0% | +5.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $5,868 | $6,012 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $73,384 | $75,081 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 76 | 48 |
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
- 118 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 9The 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 the Spearfish area, 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 the Spearfish area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 29,459+14.0% since 2020
- Households
- 12,054
- Median age
- 44.5
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 65%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 800 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 34
- Median household income
- $73,384+39.4% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $94,174
- Median home value
- $346,500
- Jobs located here
- 13,155
- Daytime population
- 27,824Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top small-town markets in South Dakota
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Brookings, SD | 81 | 11 | 8.0 | $7.4M | +9.6% | #21 of 529 |
| 2Yankton, SD | 76 | 7 | 7.2 | $8.2M | +1.5% | #49 of 529 |
| 3Spearfish, SD | 76 | 11 | 9.1 | $6.4M | +14.0% | #50 of 529 |
| 4Watertown, SD | 61 | 15 | 12.0 | $4.9M | +4.3% | #169 of 529 |
| 5Aberdeen, SD | 53 | 18 | 10.0 | $5.9M | −1.5% | #253 of 529 |
| 6Mitchell, SD | 50 | 13 | 11.8 | $4.9M | +0.6% | #284 of 529 |
| 7Huron, SD | 47 | 10 | 13.3 | $4.3M | +2.4% | #317 of 529 |
| 8Pierre, SD | 45 | 12 | 14.0 | $4.4M | −0.5% | #332 of 529 |
| 9Vermillion, SD | 36 | 7 | 12.6 | $4.4M | +0.2% | #406 of 529 |
Other business types in the Spearfish area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
- Grocery and convenience stores81
- Grocery stores75
- Convenience stores76
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 the Spearfish, SD area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 11 convenience stores in the Spearfish area. 8 of them (73%) are chain locations. The listings count convenience stores without fuel. No official count is published for convenience stores in the Spearfish area: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in the Spearfish, SD area spend on groceries?
About $70.7M a year, or $5,868 per household. That is 7% below the U.S. average (an index of 93, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 11 convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $6.4M 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 12,054 households in the Spearfish area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Spearfish, SD area compare with the U.S. for convenience stores?
The Spearfish area has 9.1 convenience stores per 10,000 households, 14% above the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per store is $6.4M, 18% below the U.S. figure of $7.9M. At the U.S. ratio of convenience stores to household spending, the Spearfish area would have about 9, against 11 on map listings.
How fast is the Spearfish, SD area growing?
Population estimates put the Spearfish area at 29,459 people in 2025, up 14.0% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 12,054 households. The median household income in the Spearfish area is $73,384 a year, 9% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 39.4% 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. A small-town market is a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people and the county or counties tied to it by commuting. 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. The Spearfish area scores 76 for convenience stores (high), #50 of 529 scored small-town markets.
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