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Grocery and convenience stores in Yuba County, CA
How Yuba 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 53 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #1,083 of 2,402 scored counties
#24 of 55 scored counties in California
- Listings
- 63
- 22 chain locations (35%)
- Official establishments
- 26
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $169.8M
- On groceries · $5,930 a household
- Spending per listing
- $2.7M
- 20% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 22.0
- 18% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 88,691
- +8.2% since 2020
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What this means
Household spending on groceries in Yuba County comes to about $169.8M a year: $5,930 per household, 6% below the U.S. average. That is about $2.7M of household spending for each store on map listings, 20% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M.
Yuba County has 63 grocery and convenience stores on map listings as of September 2026. Of those, 22 are chain locations, or 35%, against 42% across the U.S. That is 22.0 per 10,000 households, 18% above the U.S. rate of 18.7.
Official counts show 26 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in Yuba County in 2023. That is one for every 1,101 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S. Official counts list 11 one-person businesses without payroll. Since fiscal 2022, 2 SBA-backed loans worth $1M have gone to businesses classed as grocery and convenience stores in Yuba County.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Yuba County grew 8.2%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). Yuba County scores 53 (upper middle) on the Groundwork market score for grocery and convenience stores, ranking #1,083 of 2,402 scored counties and #24 of 55 scored counties in California.
How Yuba 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 | Yuba County | California | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 22.0 | 18.1 | 18.7 |
| Spending per listing | $2.7M | $3.6M | $3.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 1,101 | 1,214 | 1,293 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +5.3% | +7.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +8.2% | −0.4% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $5,930 | $6,548 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $76,373 | $99,122 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 53 | 49 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 14 → 26
- Employees, 2023
- 334
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $10.4M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 11Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 6322 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 50The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 2
- Amount
- $1M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as grocery and convenience stores in Yuba 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 Yuba County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 88,691+8.2% since 2020
- Households
- 28,635
- Median age
- 35.6
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 64%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 632 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 134
- Median household income
- $76,373+31.6% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $98,648
- Median home value
- $412,300
- Jobs located here
- 17,377
- Daytime population
- 68,426Residents 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 |
| 24Yuba County, CA | 53 | 63 | 22.0 | $2.7M | +8.2% | #1,083 of 2,402 |
Other business types in Yuba County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
- Grocery and convenience stores53
- Grocery stores45
- Convenience stores65
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 Yuba County, CA?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 63 grocery and convenience stores in Yuba County. 22 of them (35%) are chain locations. The listings count grocery, convenience and specialty food stores. Official counts show 26 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in 2023. Official counts also show 11 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Yuba County, CA spend on groceries?
About $169.8M a year, or $5,930 per household. That is 6% below the U.S. average (an index of 94, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 63 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $2.7M per store. It is estimated from the incomes of the 28,635 households in Yuba County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Yuba County, CA compare with the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores?
Yuba County has 22.0 grocery and convenience stores per 10,000 households, 18% above the U.S. rate of 18.7. Spending per store is $2.7M, 20% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M. At the U.S. ratio of grocery and convenience stores to household spending, Yuba County would have about 50, against 63 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,101 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S.
How fast is Yuba County, CA growing?
Population estimates put Yuba County at 88,691 people in 2025, up 8.2% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 28,635 households. The median household income in Yuba County is $76,373 a year, 5% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 31.6% 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. Yuba County scores 53 for grocery and convenience stores (upper middle), #1,083 of 2,402 scored counties.
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