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Fast food and sandwich shops in St. Landry Parish, LA

How St. Landry Parish, LA compares with other counties and the U.S. for fast food and sandwich shops: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.

Groundwork market score · out of 100

Score 29 out of 100: Lower middle

Ranked #1,873 of 2,222 scored counties
#36 of 51 scored counties in Louisiana

Listings
46
41 chain locations (89%)
Official establishments
48
All limited-service restaurants · +14.3% since 2019
Household spending a year
$93.8M
On food away from home · $2,914 a household
Spending per listing
$2M
33% below the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
14.3
8% above the U.S.
Population, 2025
80,765
−1.9% since 2020

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Survey estimates 2020–2024 · population estimates 2025 · official business counts 2023 · map listings September 2026 · Data credits · How we measure

What this means

St. Landry Parish scores 29 (lower middle) on the Groundwork market score for fast food and sandwich shops, ranking #1,873 of 2,222 scored counties and #36 of 51 scored counties in Louisiana. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.

Household spending on food away from home in St. Landry Parish comes to about $93.8M a year: $2,914 per household, 28% below the U.S. average. That is about $2M of household spending for each shop on map listings, 33% below the U.S. figure of $3.1M. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only fast food and sandwich shops.

St. Landry Parish has 46 fast food and sandwich shops on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 89% of them, against 79% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 14.3, 8% above the U.S. rate of 13.3.

In 2023, official counts showed 48 businesses with payroll in St. Landry Parish classed as limited-service restaurants, up 14.3% from 2019. That is one for every 670 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S. That count covers all limited-service restaurants (pizza places included), not only fast food and sandwich shops. Population estimates show St. Landry Parish declined 1.9% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S.

How St. Landry Parish compares

The same measures for Louisiana and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all food away from home by the fast food and sandwich shops counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.

Fast food and sandwich shops in St. Landry Parish, LA compared with Louisiana and the U.S.
MeasureSt. Landry ParishLouisianaU.S.
Listings per 10k households14.314.713.3
Spending per listing$2M$2.4M$3.1M
Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants)670480478
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023+14.3%+5.1%+6.1%
Population growth, 2020–2025−1.9%−0.7%+3.1%
Spending per household on food away from home$2,914$3,469$4,070
Median household income$44,462$60,756$80,734
Groundwork market score2913

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
42 → 48All limited-service restaurants · +14.3% over the period
Employees, 2023
983
Annual payroll, 2023
$17M
One-person businesses, 2023
10All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
Map listings, September 2026
4641 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
31The 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 limited-service restaurants in St. Landry 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. These official figures cover all limited-service restaurants, not only fast food and sandwich shops.

Population and households in St. Landry Parish

Population, 2025 estimate
80,765−1.9% since 2020
Households
32,183
Median age
37.5
Homes lived in by their owners
70%
Vehicles per household
1.6
Land area
923 sq. mi.
People per square mile
88
Median household income
$44,462+22.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$63,015
Median home value
$142,500
Jobs located here
22,929
Daytime population
72,446Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Fast food and sandwich shops across Louisiana

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The highest-scoring counties in Louisiana for fast food and sandwich shops, numbered among those based in Louisiana, with St. Landry Parish marked.

Top counties in Louisiana

Counties in Louisiana ranked for fast food and sandwich shops by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1East Feliciana Parish, LA7357.8$4.8M−2.8%#273 of 2,222
2De Soto Parish, LA6698.6$3.7M+2.0%#511 of 2,222
3Evangeline Parish, LA6275.6$5.2M−1.0%#637 of 2,222
4St. Charles Parish, LA622010.7$3.7M−3.7%#644 of 2,222
5Livingston Parish, LA627013.1$2.9M+8.5%#665 of 2,222
6St. Tammany Parish, LA6114113.4$3M+5.3%#710 of 2,222
7Beauregard Parish, LA591510.9$3.3M+0.2%#786 of 2,222
8St. James Parish, LA58810.6$3.5M−5.9%#811 of 2,222
9Sabine Parish, LA5789.1$3.4M−1.2%#851 of 2,222
10Iberville Parish, LA56108.9$3.8M−1.6%#886 of 2,222
36St. Landry Parish, LA294614.3$2M−1.9%#1,873 of 2,222

Other business types in St. Landry Parish

Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.

Questions

How many fast food and sandwich shops are in St. Landry Parish, LA?

Map listings as of September 2026 show 46 fast food and sandwich shops in St. Landry Parish. 41 of them (89%) are chain locations. The listings count fast food, sandwich shops, delis and bagel shops. Official counts show 48 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in 2023, up 14.3% from 2019. The official count takes in all limited-service restaurants, not only fast food and sandwich shops: pizza places are counted too. Official counts list 10 one-person businesses without payroll.

How much do households in St. Landry Parish, LA spend on food away from home?

About $93.8M a year, or $2,914 per household. That is 28% below the U.S. average (an index of 72, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 46 fast food and sandwich shops on map listings, it comes to $2M per shop. That spending covers all food away from home, which fast food and sandwich shops share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 32,183 households in St. Landry Parish and national spending patterns by income.

How does St. Landry Parish, LA compare with the U.S. for fast food and sandwich shops?

St. Landry Parish has 14.3 fast food and sandwich shops per 10,000 households, 8% above the U.S. rate of 13.3. Spending per shop is $2M, 33% below the U.S. figure of $3.1M. At the U.S. ratio of fast food and sandwich shops to household spending, St. Landry Parish would have about 31, against 46 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 670 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S. The official count rose 14.3% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.1% for the U.S.

How fast is St. Landry Parish, LA growing?

Population estimates put St. Landry Parish at 80,765 people in 2025, down 1.9% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 32,183 households. Median household income in St. Landry Parish is $44,462, 45% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 22.1%, 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. Landry Parish scores 29 for fast food and sandwich shops (lower middle), #1,873 of 2,222 scored counties.

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