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Grocery and convenience stores in Calhoun County, GA

How Calhoun 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

Not scored

Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.

Listings
9
0 chain locations (0%)
Official establishments
3
Businesses with payroll, 2023
Household spending a year
$8.3M
On groceries · $5,239 a household
Spending per listing
$927K
73% below the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
56.5
3 times the U.S.
Population, 2025
5,413
−2.8% 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

Map listings as of September 2026 show 9 grocery and convenience stores in Calhoun County. None of them are chain locations, against 42% across the U.S. That is 56.5 per 10,000 households, 3 times the U.S. rate of 18.7.

Households in Calhoun County spend about $8.3M a year on groceries, or $5,239 per household, 17% below the U.S. average. That is about $927K of household spending for each store on map listings, 73% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M.

Official counts show 3 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in Calhoun County in 2023. That is one for every 531 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S. Another 3 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $1.5M has gone to businesses classed as grocery and convenience stores in Calhoun County.

Population estimates show Calhoun County declined 2.8% from 2020 to 2025, 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 Calhoun 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 Calhoun County, GA compared with Georgia and the U.S.
MeasureCalhoun CountyGeorgiaU.S.
Listings per 10k households56.520.318.7
Spending per listing$927K$3M$3.4M
Households per official establishment5311,1111,293
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023n/a+14.0%+7.2%
Population growth, 2020–2025−2.8%+5.3%+3.1%
Spending per household on groceries$5,239$6,137$6,319
Median household income$46,940$77,353$80,734
Groundwork market scoreNot scored44

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
3
Employees, 2023
31
Annual payroll, 2023
$495K
One-person businesses, 2023
3Businesses with no payroll
Map listings, September 2026
90 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
3The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here

SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022

Loans
1
Amount
$1.5M

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

Population, 2025 estimate
5,413−2.8% since 2020
Households
1,593
Median age
40.2
Homes lived in by their owners
59%
Vehicles per household
1.8
Land area
280 sq. mi.
People per square mile
20
Median household income
$46,940
Average household income
$72,700
Median home value
$81,000
Jobs located here
1,054
Daytime population
4,772Residents 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 Calhoun 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
Calhoun County, GANot scored956.5$927K−2.8%

Other business types in Calhoun County

None has a Groundwork market score here. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.

Questions

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

There are 9 grocery and convenience stores on map listings in Calhoun County as of September 2026. None of them are chain locations. The listings count grocery, convenience and specialty food stores. Official counts show 3 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in 2023. Official counts list 3 one-person businesses without payroll.

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

About $8.3M a year, or $5,239 per household. That is 17% below the U.S. average (an index of 83, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 9 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $927K per store. It is estimated from the incomes of the 1,593 households in Calhoun County and national spending patterns by income.

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

Calhoun County has 56.5 grocery and convenience stores per 10,000 households, 3 times the U.S. rate of 18.7. Spending per store is $927K, 73% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M. At the national ratio of grocery and convenience stores to household spending, Calhoun County would have about 3, against 9 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 531 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S.

How fast is Calhoun County, GA growing?

Population estimates put Calhoun County at 5,413 people in 2025, down 2.8% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 1,593 households. Median household income in Calhoun County is $46,940, 42% 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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