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Grocery and convenience stores in Baldwin County, GA

How Baldwin County, GA 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 18 out of 100: Low

Ranked #2,249 of 2,402 scored counties
#103 of 124 scored counties in Georgia

Listings
53
31 chain locations (58%)
Official establishments
22
Businesses with payroll, 2023
Household spending a year
$90.8M
On groceries · $5,477 a household
Spending per listing
$1.7M
49% below the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
32.0
71% above the U.S.
Population, 2025
44,029
+0.6% 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

Baldwin County scores 18 (low) on the Groundwork market score for grocery and convenience stores, ranking #2,249 of 2,402 scored counties and #103 of 124 scored counties in Georgia. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.

Household spending on groceries in Baldwin County comes to about $90.8M a year: $5,477 per household, 13% below the U.S. average. That is about $1.7M of household spending for each store on map listings, 49% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M.

Baldwin County has 53 grocery and convenience stores on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 58% of them, against 42% across the U.S. That comes to 32.0 for every 10,000 households, 71% above the U.S. rate of 18.7.

Official counts show 22 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in Baldwin County in 2023. That is one for every 754 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $268K has gone to businesses classed as grocery and convenience stores in Baldwin County. Population estimates show Baldwin County grew 0.6% from 2020 to 2025, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%).

How Baldwin County compares

The same measures for Georgia 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.

Grocery and convenience stores in Baldwin County, GA compared with Georgia and the U.S.
MeasureBaldwin CountyGeorgiaU.S.
Listings per 10k households32.020.318.7
Spending per listing$1.7M$3M$3.4M
Households per official establishment7541,1111,293
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023n/a+14.0%+7.2%
Population growth, 2020–2025+0.6%+5.3%+3.1%
Spending per household on groceries$5,477$6,137$6,319
Median household income$54,403$77,353$80,734
Groundwork market score1844

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
19 → 22
Employees, 2023
350
Annual payroll, 2023
$9.9M
One-person businesses, 2023
12Businesses with no payroll
Map listings, September 2026
5331 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
27The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here

SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022

Loans
1
Amount
$268K

SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as grocery and convenience stores in Baldwin 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 Baldwin County

Population, 2025 estimate
44,029+0.6% since 2020
Households
16,582
Median age
39.1
Homes lived in by their owners
61%
Vehicles per household
1.8
Land area
259 sq. mi.
People per square mile
169
Median household income
$54,403+24.6% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$84,691
Median home value
$181,900
Jobs located here
15,797
Daytime population
42,811Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Grocery and convenience stores across Georgia

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The highest-scoring counties in Georgia for grocery and convenience stores, numbered among those based in Georgia, with Baldwin County marked.

Top counties in Georgia

Counties in Georgia ranked for grocery and convenience stores by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1Paulding County, GA946110.2$6.5M+12.7%#16 of 2,402
2Effingham County, GA913614.8$4.3M+14.1%#41 of 2,402
3Columbia County, GA877714.0$4.7M+7.9%#78 of 2,402
4Forsyth County, GA8511112.5$6M+11.8%#97 of 2,402
5Cherokee County, GA8413012.8$5.3M+11.6%#108 of 2,402
6Oconee County, GA832013.3$5.3M+6.9%#122 of 2,402
7Fayette County, GA836013.5$5.1M+4.7%#123 of 2,402
8Henry County, GA8011413.1$4.8M+9.5%#178 of 2,402
9Coweta County, GA797212.8$5.1M+9.2%#194 of 2,402
10Banks County, GA79811.7$5M+17.3%#195 of 2,402
103Baldwin County, GA185332.0$1.7M+0.6%#2,249 of 2,402

Other business types in Baldwin County

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

Questions

How many grocery and convenience stores are in Baldwin County, GA?

Map listings as of September 2026 show 53 grocery and convenience stores in Baldwin County. 31 of them (58%) 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. Another 12 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.

How much do households in Baldwin County, GA spend on groceries?

About $90.8M a year, or $5,477 per household. That is 13% below the U.S. average (an index of 87, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 53 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $1.7M per store. It is estimated from the incomes of the 16,582 households in Baldwin County and national spending patterns by income.

How does Baldwin County, GA compare with the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores?

Baldwin County has 32.0 grocery and convenience stores per 10,000 households, 71% above the U.S. rate of 18.7. Spending per store is $1.7M, 49% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M. At the U.S. ratio of grocery and convenience stores to household spending, Baldwin County would have about 27, against 53 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 754 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S.

How fast is Baldwin County, GA growing?

Population estimates put Baldwin County at 44,029 people in 2025, up 0.6% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 16,582 households. The median household income in Baldwin County is $54,403 a year, 33% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 24.6% 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. Baldwin County scores 18 for grocery and convenience stores (low), #2,249 of 2,402 scored counties.

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How the score works · Top markets for grocery and convenience stores · All 56 business types in Baldwin County

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