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Grocery and convenience stores in Modoc County, CA
How Modoc County, CA compares with other counties and the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
- Listings
- 17
- 4 chain locations (24%)
- Official establishments
- 10
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $17.9M
- On groceries · $5,480 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.1M
- 69% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 52.0
- 2.8 times the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 8,426
- −2.9% since 2020
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What this means
Households in Modoc County spend about $17.9M a year on groceries, or $5,480 per household, 13% below the U.S. average. Spread across 17 grocery and convenience stores, that is $1.1M per store, 69% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M.
There are 17 grocery and convenience stores on map listings in Modoc County as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 24% of them, against 42% across the U.S. That comes to 52.0 for every 10,000 households, 2.8 times the U.S. rate of 18.7.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in Modoc County was 10 in 2023. That is one for every 327 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 2 SBA-backed loans worth $1.5M have gone to businesses classed as grocery and convenience stores in Modoc County.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Modoc County declined 2.9%, against +3.1% for the U.S. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t given a market score, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
How Modoc County compares
The same measures for California 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 | Modoc County | California | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 52.0 | 18.1 | 18.7 |
| Spending per listing | $1.1M | $3.6M | $3.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 327 | 1,214 | 1,293 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +5.3% | +7.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −2.9% | −0.4% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $5,480 | $6,548 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $59,455 | $99,122 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 49 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 5 → 10
- Employees, 2023
- 115
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $3.3M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 174 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
- 2
- Amount
- $1.5M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as grocery and convenience stores in Modoc 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 Modoc County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 8,426−2.9% since 2020
- Households
- 3,267
- Median age
- 50.6
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 77%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 3,948 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 2
- Median household income
- $59,455
- Average household income
- $78,582
- Median home value
- $224,700
- Jobs located here
- 2,564
- Daytime population
- 8,042Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in California
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Placer County, CA | 85 | 220 | 13.9 | $4.9M | +8.9% | #99 of 2,402 |
| 2San Benito County, CA | 80 | 38 | 18.5 | $3.7M | +8.6% | #188 of 2,402 |
| 3El Dorado County, CA | 74 | 107 | 14.0 | $4.8M | +0.6% | #311 of 2,402 |
| 4Riverside County, CA | 73 | 1,248 | 16.1 | $4M | +5.0% | #354 of 2,402 |
| 5Contra Costa County, CA | 71 | 552 | 13.3 | $5.3M | +0.3% | #402 of 2,402 |
| 6Santa Clara County, CA | 70 | 924 | 14.0 | $5.4M | −0.9% | #427 of 2,402 |
| 7Orange County, CA | 66 | 1,680 | 15.5 | $4.4M | −1.1% | #550 of 2,402 |
| 8Solano County, CA | 66 | 255 | 16.2 | $4M | +0.6% | #555 of 2,402 |
| 9Amador County, CA | 66 | 28 | 17.4 | $3.5M | +3.2% | #560 of 2,402 |
| 10San Diego County, CA | 65 | 1,804 | 15.4 | $4.3M | −0.6% | #581 of 2,402 |
| Modoc County, CA | Not scored | 17 | 52.0 | $1.1M | −2.9% |
Other business types in Modoc County
None has a Groundwork market score here. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
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Questions
How many grocery and convenience stores are in Modoc County, CA?
As of September 2026, map listings count 17 grocery and convenience stores in Modoc County. 4 of them (24%) are chain locations. The listings count grocery, convenience and specialty food stores. Official counts show 10 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in 2023.
How much do households in Modoc County, CA spend on groceries?
About $17.9M a year, or $5,480 per household. That is 13% below the U.S. average (an index of 87, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 17 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $1.1M per store. It is estimated from the incomes of the 3,267 households in Modoc County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Modoc County, CA compare with the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores?
Modoc County has 52.0 grocery and convenience stores per 10,000 households, 2.8 times the U.S. rate of 18.7. Spending per store is $1.1M, 69% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M. At the U.S. ratio of grocery and convenience stores to household spending, Modoc County would have about 5, against 17 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 327 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S.
How fast is Modoc County, CA growing?
Population estimates put Modoc County at 8,426 people in 2025, down 2.9% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 3,267 households. The median household income in Modoc County is $59,455 a year, 26% below the U.S. median of $80,734.
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. The score leaves out counties under 10,000 people, where a handful of businesses would swing it.
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