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Grocery and convenience stores in Siskiyou County, CA
How Siskiyou 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 · out of 100
Score 17 out of 100: Low
Ranked #2,262 of 2,402 scored counties
#55 of 55 scored counties in California
- Listings
- 51
- 11 chain locations (22%)
- Official establishments
- 22
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $105.1M
- On groceries · $5,507 a household
- Spending per listing
- $2.1M
- 39% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 26.7
- 43% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 42,013
- −4.5% since 2020
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What this means
For grocery and convenience stores, Siskiyou County has a Groundwork market score of 17 (low): #2,262 of 2,402 scored counties and #55 of 55 scored counties in California. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Map listings as of September 2026 show 51 grocery and convenience stores in Siskiyou County. Chain locations make up 22% of them, against 42% across the U.S. That comes to 26.7 for every 10,000 households, 43% above the U.S. rate of 18.7.
Household spending on groceries in Siskiyou County comes to about $105.1M a year: $5,507 per household, 13% below the U.S. average. That is about $2.1M of household spending for each store on map listings, 39% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in Siskiyou County was 22 in 2023. That is one for every 867 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S. Population estimates put the population change in Siskiyou County from 2020 to 2025 at −4.5%, against +3.1% for the U.S.
How Siskiyou 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 | Siskiyou County | California | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 26.7 | 18.1 | 18.7 |
| Spending per listing | $2.1M | $3.6M | $3.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 867 | 1,214 | 1,293 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +5.3% | +7.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −4.5% | −0.4% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $5,507 | $6,548 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $59,095 | $99,122 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 17 | 49 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 17 → 22
- Employees, 2023
- 353
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $12.2M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 6Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 5111 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 grocery and convenience stores in Siskiyou 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 Siskiyou County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 42,013−4.5% since 2020
- Households
- 19,079
- Median age
- 46.8
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 69%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 6,279 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 7
- Median household income
- $59,095+30.6% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $82,222
- Median home value
- $309,500
- Jobs located here
- 13,187
- Daytime population
- 41,151Residents 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 |
| 55Siskiyou County, CA | 17 | 51 | 26.7 | $2.1M | −4.5% | #2,262 of 2,402 |
Other business types in Siskiyou County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
- Grocery and convenience stores17
- Grocery stores9
- Convenience stores38
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 Siskiyou County, CA?
There are 51 grocery and convenience stores on map listings in Siskiyou County as of September 2026. 11 of them (22%) are chain locations. The listings count grocery, convenience and specialty food stores. Official counts show 22 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in 2023. Official counts list 6 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Siskiyou County, CA spend on groceries?
About $105.1M a year, or $5,507 per household. That is 13% below the U.S. average (an index of 87, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 51 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $2.1M per store. It is estimated from the incomes of the 19,079 households in Siskiyou County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Siskiyou County, CA compare with the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores?
Siskiyou County has 26.7 grocery and convenience stores per 10,000 households, 43% above the U.S. rate of 18.7. Spending per store is $2.1M, 39% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M. At the national ratio of grocery and convenience stores to household spending, Siskiyou County would have about 31, against 51 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 867 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S.
How fast is Siskiyou County, CA growing?
Population estimates put Siskiyou County at 42,013 people in 2025, down 4.5% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 19,079 households. Median household income in Siskiyou County is $59,095, 27% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 30.6%, 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. Siskiyou County scores 17 for grocery and convenience stores (low), #2,262 of 2,402 scored counties.
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