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Grocery and convenience stores in Effingham County, GA
How Effingham 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 91 out of 100: Very high
Ranked #41 of 2,402 scored counties
#2 of 124 scored counties in Georgia
- Listings
- 36
- 22 chain locations (61%)
- Official establishments
- 8
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $154.2M
- On groceries · $6,350 a household
- Spending per listing
- $4.3M
- 26% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 14.8
- 21% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 74,397
- +14.1% since 2020
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What this means
For grocery and convenience stores, Effingham County has a Groundwork market score of 91 (very high): #41 of 2,402 scored counties and #2 of 124 scored counties in Georgia. That puts it in the top 10% of counties for grocery and convenience stores.
Map listings as of September 2026 show 36 grocery and convenience stores in Effingham County. Chain locations make up 61% of them, against 42% across the U.S. That comes to 14.8 for every 10,000 households, 21% below the U.S. rate of 18.7.
At $6,350 per household (in line with the U.S. average), households in Effingham County spend about $154.2M a year on groceries. That is about $4.3M of household spending for each store on map listings, 26% above the U.S. figure of $3.4M.
Official counts show 8 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in Effingham County in 2023. That is one for every 3,036 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S. Population estimates show Effingham County grew 14.1% from 2020 to 2025, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How Effingham 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.
| Measure | Effingham County | Georgia | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 14.8 | 20.3 | 18.7 |
| Spending per listing | $4.3M | $3M | $3.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 3,036 | 1,111 | 1,293 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +14.0% | +7.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +14.1% | +5.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $6,350 | $6,137 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $88,438 | $77,353 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 91 | 44 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 6 → 8
- Employees, 2023
- 359
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $8.5M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 10Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 3622 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 46The 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 Effingham 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 Effingham County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 74,397+14.1% since 2020
- Households
- 24,287
- Median age
- 37.4
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 78%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.2
- Land area
- 479 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 144
- Median household income
- $88,438+32.4% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $106,856
- Median home value
- $276,000
- Jobs located here
- 12,262
- Daytime population
- 50,320Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Georgia
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Paulding County, GA | 94 | 61 | 10.2 | $6.5M | +12.7% | #16 of 2,402 |
| 2Effingham County, GA | 91 | 36 | 14.8 | $4.3M | +14.1% | #41 of 2,402 |
| 3Columbia County, GA | 87 | 77 | 14.0 | $4.7M | +7.9% | #78 of 2,402 |
| 4Forsyth County, GA | 85 | 111 | 12.5 | $6M | +11.8% | #97 of 2,402 |
| 5Cherokee County, GA | 84 | 130 | 12.8 | $5.3M | +11.6% | #108 of 2,402 |
| 6Oconee County, GA | 83 | 20 | 13.3 | $5.3M | +6.9% | #122 of 2,402 |
| 7Fayette County, GA | 83 | 60 | 13.5 | $5.1M | +4.7% | #123 of 2,402 |
| 8Henry County, GA | 80 | 114 | 13.1 | $4.8M | +9.5% | #178 of 2,402 |
| 9Coweta County, GA | 79 | 72 | 12.8 | $5.1M | +9.2% | #194 of 2,402 |
| 10Banks County, GA | 79 | 8 | 11.7 | $5M | +17.3% | #195 of 2,402 |
Other business types in Effingham County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
- Grocery and convenience stores91
- Grocery stores94
- Convenience stores80
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Fitness and classes
Health care
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Home services
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Funeral services
Questions
How many grocery and convenience stores are in Effingham County, GA?
There are 36 grocery and convenience stores on map listings in Effingham County as of September 2026. 22 of them (61%) are chain locations. The listings count grocery, convenience and specialty food stores. Official counts show 8 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in 2023. Official counts also show 10 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Effingham County, GA spend on groceries?
About $154.2M a year, or $6,350 per household. That is in line with the U.S. average (an index of 100, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 36 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $4.3M per store. It is estimated from the incomes of the 24,287 households in Effingham County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Effingham County, GA compare with the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores?
Effingham County has 14.8 grocery and convenience stores per 10,000 households, 21% below the U.S. rate of 18.7. Spending per store is $4.3M, 26% above the U.S. figure of $3.4M. At the national ratio of grocery and convenience stores to household spending, Effingham County would have about 46, against 36 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 3,036 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S.
How fast is Effingham County, GA growing?
Population estimates put Effingham County at 74,397 people in 2025, up 14.1% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 24,287 households. Median household income in Effingham County is $88,438, 10% above the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 32.4%, 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. Effingham County scores 91 for grocery and convenience stores (very high), #41 of 2,402 scored counties.
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