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Fast food and sandwich shops in Alleghany County, NC
How Alleghany County, NC compares with other counties and the U.S. for fast food and sandwich shops: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 2.
- Listings
- 2
- 2 chain locations (100%)
- Official establishments
- 8
- All limited-service restaurants
- Household spending a year
- $15.2M
- On food away from home · $2,934 a household
- Spending per listing
- $7.6M
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 3.9
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 11,479
- +5.4% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 2 fast food and sandwich shops in Alleghany County. That is 3.9 per 10,000 households.
Household spending on food away from home in Alleghany County comes to about $15.2M a year: $2,934 per household, 28% below the U.S. average. Spread across 2 fast food and sandwich shops, that is $7.6M per shop. That spending covers all food away from home, which fast food and sandwich shops share with other businesses in the trade.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in Alleghany County was 8 in 2023. That is one for every 647 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S. The official count takes in all limited-service restaurants, not only fast food and sandwich shops: pizza places are counted too.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Alleghany County grew 5.4%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). With 2 fast food and sandwich shops on map listings, Alleghany County isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How Alleghany County compares
The same measures for North Carolina 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.
| Measure | Alleghany County | North Carolina | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 3.9 | 13.4 | 13.3 |
| Spending per listing | $7.6M | $2.8M | $3.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 647 | 504 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +4.7% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +5.4% | +7.2% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $2,934 | $3,776 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $47,172 | $72,388 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 47 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 5 → 8All limited-service restaurants
- Employees, 2023
- 120
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $1.6M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 22 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 5The 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 Alleghany 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. These official figures cover all limited-service restaurants, not only fast food and sandwich shops.
Population and households in Alleghany County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 11,479+5.4% since 2020
- Households
- 5,177
- Median age
- 51.4
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 74%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 235 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 48
- Median household income
- $47,172+24.7% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $70,176
- Median home value
- $214,800
- Jobs located here
- 2,918
- Daytime population
- 10,199Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in North Carolina
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Chatham County, NC | 90 | 28 | 8.5 | $5.3M | +11.0% | #14 of 2,222 |
| 2Franklin County, NC | 86 | 23 | 8.1 | $4.5M | +18.8% | #43 of 2,222 |
| 3Hoke County, NC | 84 | 13 | 6.8 | $5.1M | +9.0% | #70 of 2,222 |
| 4Polk County, NC | 83 | 6 | 6.7 | $5.5M | +6.0% | #85 of 2,222 |
| 5Union County, NC | 83 | 103 | 12.2 | $3.8M | +11.7% | #90 of 2,222 |
| 6Orange County, NC | 80 | 57 | 9.9 | $4.4M | +6.1% | #123 of 2,222 |
| 7Lincoln County, NC | 78 | 36 | 9.8 | $4.1M | +13.2% | #168 of 2,222 |
| 8Madison County, NC | 76 | 5 | 6.0 | $5.6M | +5.9% | #199 of 2,222 |
| 9Moore County, NC | 75 | 44 | 10.0 | $4M | +10.3% | #227 of 2,222 |
| 10Henderson County, NC | 74 | 48 | 9.4 | $3.9M | +5.0% | #251 of 2,222 |
| Alleghany County, NC | Not scored | 2 | 3.9 | $7.6M | +5.4% |
Other business types in Alleghany County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes36
- Sit-down restaurants27
- Fast food and sandwich shops
- Pizza36
- Coffee shops and cafes23
- Bakeries and dessert shops
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Questions
How many fast food and sandwich shops are in Alleghany County, NC?
There are 2 fast food and sandwich shops on map listings in Alleghany County as of September 2026. The listings count fast food, sandwich shops, delis and bagel shops. Official counts show 8 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in 2023. That count covers all limited-service restaurants (pizza places included), not only fast food and sandwich shops.
How much do households in Alleghany County, NC spend on food away from home?
About $15.2M a year, or $2,934 per household. That is 28% below the U.S. average (an index of 72, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 2 fast food and sandwich shops on map listings, it comes to $7.6M per shop. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only fast food and sandwich shops. It is estimated from the incomes of the 5,177 households in Alleghany County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Alleghany County, NC compare with the U.S. for fast food and sandwich shops?
Alleghany County has 2 fast food and sandwich shops on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the national ratio of fast food and sandwich shops to household spending, Alleghany County would have about 5, against 2 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 647 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S.
How fast is Alleghany County, NC growing?
Population estimates put Alleghany County at 11,479 people in 2025, up 5.4% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 5,177 households. The median household income in Alleghany County is $47,172 a year, 42% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 24.7% 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. Alleghany County has no market score for fast food and sandwich shops: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 2.
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