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Fast food and sandwich shops in Love County, OK

How Love County, OK 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 52 out of 100: Upper middle

Ranked #1,088 of 2,222 scored counties
#13 of 55 scored counties in Oklahoma

Listings
6
6 chain locations (100%)
Official establishments
6
All limited-service restaurants
Household spending a year
$13.5M
On food away from home · $3,455 a household
Spending per listing
$2.2M
26% below the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
15.4
16% above the U.S.
Population, 2025
10,780
+6.1% 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

As of September 2026, map listings count 6 fast food and sandwich shops in Love County. All of them are chain locations, against 79% across the U.S. That is 15.4 per 10,000 households, 16% above the U.S. rate of 13.3.

Household spending on food away from home in Love County comes to about $13.5M a year: $3,455 per household, 15% below the U.S. average. That works out to $2.2M per shop, 26% below the U.S. figure of $3.1M. 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 Love County was 6 in 2023. That is one for every 650 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 Love County grew 6.1%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). The Groundwork market score for fast food and sandwich shops in Love County is 52 (upper middle), #1,088 of 2,222 scored counties and #13 of 55 scored counties in Oklahoma.

How Love County compares

The same measures for Oklahoma 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 Love County, OK compared with Oklahoma and the U.S.
MeasureLove CountyOklahomaU.S.
Listings per 10k households15.415.613.3
Spending per listing$2.2M$2.3M$3.1M
Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants)650517478
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023n/a+0.5%+6.1%
Population growth, 2020–2025+6.1%+4.0%+3.1%
Spending per household on food away from home$3,455$3,519$4,070
Median household income$66,580$65,039$80,734
Groundwork market score5233

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
5 → 6All limited-service restaurants
Employees, 2023
103
Annual payroll, 2023
$2.7M
One-person businesses, 2023
0All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
Map listings, September 2026
66 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
4The 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 Love 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 Love County

Population, 2025 estimate
10,780+6.1% since 2020
Households
3,899
Median age
39.2
Homes lived in by their owners
73%
Vehicles per household
2.2
Land area
514 sq. mi.
People per square mile
20
Median household income
$66,580+34.8% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$85,462
Median home value
$171,000
Jobs located here
5,191
Daytime population
11,258Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Fast food and sandwich shops across Oklahoma

Every Oklahoma market ranked →

The highest-scoring counties in Oklahoma for fast food and sandwich shops, numbered among those based in Oklahoma, with Love County marked.

Top counties in Oklahoma

Counties in Oklahoma ranked for fast food and sandwich shops by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1Rogers County, OK84339.0$4.3M+7.1%#78 of 2,222
2Wagoner County, OK803912.4$3.1M+14.6%#138 of 2,222
3Logan County, OK802413.5$3M+11.5%#139 of 2,222
4Osage County, OK76126.9$5M+2.2%#201 of 2,222
5Canadian County, OK668314.3$2.8M+20.4%#534 of 2,222
6Creek County, OK653211.3$3M+4.4%#557 of 2,222
7Grady County, OK633014.5$2.6M+7.7%#635 of 2,222
8Ottawa County, OK57108.4$3.5M+0.7%#850 of 2,222
9Lincoln County, OK571813.7$2.5M+5.3%#875 of 2,222
10Delaware County, OK542313.4$2.4M+3.8%#1,005 of 2,222
13Love County, OK52615.4$2.2M+6.1%#1,088 of 2,222

Other business types in Love County

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

Questions

How many fast food and sandwich shops are in Love County, OK?

Love County has 6 fast food and sandwich shops on map listings as of September 2026. 6 of them (100%) are chain locations. The listings count fast food, sandwich shops, delis and bagel shops. Official counts show 6 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 Love County, OK spend on food away from home?

About $13.5M a year, or $3,455 per household. That is 15% below the U.S. average (an index of 85, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 6 fast food and sandwich shops on map listings, it comes to $2.2M 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 3,899 households in Love County and national spending patterns by income.

How does Love County, OK compare with the U.S. for fast food and sandwich shops?

Love County has 15.4 fast food and sandwich shops per 10,000 households, 16% above the U.S. rate of 13.3. Spending per shop is $2.2M, 26% below the U.S. figure of $3.1M. At the national ratio of fast food and sandwich shops to household spending, Love County would have about 4, against 6 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 650 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S.

How fast is Love County, OK growing?

Population estimates put Love County at 10,780 people in 2025, up 6.1% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 3,899 households. The median household income in Love County is $66,580 a year, 18% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 34.8% 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. Love County scores 52 for fast food and sandwich shops (upper middle), #1,088 of 2,222 scored counties.

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How the score works · Top markets for fast food and sandwich shops · All 56 business types in Love County

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