Groceries and convenience · County · Alabama
Grocery and convenience stores in Coosa County, AL
How Coosa County, AL compares with other counties and the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 46 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #1,348 of 2,402 scored counties
#23 of 64 scored counties in Alabama
- Listings
- 5
- 3 chain locations (60%)
- Official establishments
- 4
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $23.9M
- On groceries · $5,420 a household
- Spending per listing
- $4.8M
- 41% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 11.3
- 40% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 10,161
- −1.7% since 2020
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What this means
Household spending on groceries in Coosa County comes to about $23.9M a year: $5,420 per household, 14% below the U.S. average. Spread across 5 grocery and convenience stores, that is $4.8M per store, 41% above the U.S. figure of $3.4M.
Coosa County has 5 grocery and convenience stores on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 60% of them, against 42% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 11.3, 40% below the U.S. rate of 18.7.
Official counts show 4 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in Coosa County in 2023. That is one for every 1,105 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Coosa County declined 1.7%, against +3.1% for the U.S. For grocery and convenience stores, Coosa County has a Groundwork market score of 46 (lower middle): #1,348 of 2,402 scored counties and #23 of 64 scored counties in Alabama.
How Coosa County compares
The same measures for Alabama and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all groceries by the grocery and 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 | Coosa County | Alabama | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 11.3 | 21.3 | 18.7 |
| Spending per listing | $4.8M | $2.7M | $3.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 1,105 | 1,657 | 1,293 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +23.1% | +7.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −1.7% | +3.2% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $5,420 | $5,771 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $57,355 | $63,999 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 46 | 36 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 4
- Employees, 2023
- 42
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $783K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 53 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 grocery and convenience stores in Coosa 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 Coosa County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 10,161−1.7% since 2020
- Households
- 4,418
- Median age
- 49.6
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 82%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 651 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 16
- Median household income
- $57,355+47.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $68,037
- Median home value
- $115,500
- Jobs located here
- 1,582
- Daytime population
- 7,923Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Alabama
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Madison County, AL | 88 | 246 | 14.9 | $4.3M | +11.0% | #67 of 2,402 |
| 2Limestone County, AL | 88 | 66 | 16.1 | $3.9M | +18.0% | #69 of 2,402 |
| 3Autauga County, AL | 82 | 35 | 15.3 | $3.9M | +5.1% | #150 of 2,402 |
| 4Shelby County, AL | 79 | 135 | 15.5 | $4.3M | +6.5% | #202 of 2,402 |
| 5Baldwin County, AL | 76 | 195 | 19.8 | $3.1M | +14.8% | #280 of 2,402 |
| 6Lee County, AL | 73 | 116 | 16.7 | $3.5M | +8.6% | #367 of 2,402 |
| 7Lawrence County, AL | 68 | 24 | 17.6 | $3.2M | +2.3% | #509 of 2,402 |
| 8St. Clair County, AL | 68 | 65 | 18.5 | $3.2M | +7.1% | #511 of 2,402 |
| 9Elmore County, AL | 65 | 76 | 23.1 | $2.6M | +4.2% | #611 of 2,402 |
| 10Coffee County, AL | 63 | 45 | 21.4 | $2.7M | +6.3% | #688 of 2,402 |
| 23Coosa County, AL | 46 | 5 | 11.3 | $4.8M | −1.7% | #1,348 of 2,402 |
Other business types in Coosa County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
- Grocery and convenience stores46
- Grocery stores
- Convenience stores
Auto
Beauty and personal care
Fitness and classes
Health care
Child care
Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many grocery and convenience stores are in Coosa County, AL?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 5 grocery and convenience stores in Coosa County. 3 of them (60%) are chain locations. The listings count grocery, convenience and specialty food stores. Official counts show 4 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in 2023.
How much do households in Coosa County, AL spend on groceries?
About $23.9M a year, or $5,420 per household. That is 14% below the U.S. average (an index of 86, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 5 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $4.8M per store. It is estimated from the incomes of the 4,418 households in Coosa County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Coosa County, AL compare with the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores?
Coosa County has 11.3 grocery and convenience stores per 10,000 households, 40% below the U.S. rate of 18.7. Spending per store is $4.8M, 41% above the U.S. figure of $3.4M. At the U.S. ratio of grocery and convenience stores to household spending, Coosa County would have about 7, against 5 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,105 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S.
How fast is Coosa County, AL growing?
Population estimates put Coosa County at 10,161 people in 2025, down 1.7% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 4,418 households. The median household income in Coosa County is $57,355 a year, 29% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 47.1% 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. Coosa County scores 46 for grocery and convenience stores (lower middle), #1,348 of 2,402 scored counties.
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