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Grocery and convenience stores in Morgan County, GA
How Morgan 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 55 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #1,001 of 2,402 scored counties
#41 of 124 scored counties in Georgia
- Listings
- 22
- 7 chain locations (32%)
- Official establishments
- 6
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $50M
- On groceries · $6,153 a household
- Spending per listing
- $2.3M
- 33% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 27.1
- 45% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 22,095
- +9.4% since 2020
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 22 grocery and convenience stores in Morgan County. Chain locations make up 32% of them, against 42% across the U.S. That is 27.1 per 10,000 households, 45% above the U.S. rate of 18.7.
Household spending on groceries in Morgan County comes to about $50M a year: $6,153 per household, 3% below the U.S. average. Spread across 22 grocery and convenience stores, that is $2.3M per store, 33% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in Morgan County was 6 in 2023. That is one for every 1,353 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S. Another 7 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.
Population estimates show Morgan County grew 9.4% from 2020 to 2025, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). The Groundwork market score for grocery and convenience stores in Morgan County is 55 (upper middle), #1,001 of 2,402 scored counties and #41 of 124 scored counties in Georgia.
How Morgan 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 | Morgan County | Georgia | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 27.1 | 20.3 | 18.7 |
| Spending per listing | $2.3M | $3M | $3.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 1,353 | 1,111 | 1,293 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +14.0% | +7.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +9.4% | +5.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $6,153 | $6,137 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $78,111 | $77,353 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 55 | 44 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 9 → 6
- Employees, 2023
- 233
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $4.5M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 7Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 227 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 15The 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 Morgan 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 Morgan County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 22,095+9.4% since 2020
- Households
- 8,120
- Median age
- 43.5
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 78%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.2
- Land area
- 347 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 61
- Median household income
- $78,111+18.0% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $107,696
- Median home value
- $342,300
- Jobs located here
- 8,906
- Daytime population
- 20,330Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Georgia market ranked →The highest-scoring counties in Georgia for grocery and convenience stores, numbered among those based in Georgia, with Morgan County marked.
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 |
| 41Morgan County, GA | 55 | 22 | 27.1 | $2.3M | +9.4% | #1,001 of 2,402 |
Other business types in Morgan County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
- Grocery and convenience stores55
- Grocery stores
- Convenience stores39
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 Morgan County, GA?
Morgan County has 22 grocery and convenience stores on map listings as of September 2026. 7 of them (32%) are chain locations. The listings count grocery, convenience and specialty food stores. Official counts show 6 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in 2023. Official counts list 7 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Morgan County, GA spend on groceries?
About $50M a year, or $6,153 per household. That is 3% below the U.S. average (an index of 97, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 22 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $2.3M per store. It is estimated from the incomes of the 8,120 households in Morgan County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Morgan County, GA compare with the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores?
Morgan County has 27.1 grocery and convenience stores per 10,000 households, 45% above the U.S. rate of 18.7. Spending per store is $2.3M, 33% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M. At the national ratio of grocery and convenience stores to household spending, Morgan County would have about 15, against 22 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,353 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S.
How fast is Morgan County, GA growing?
Population estimates put Morgan County at 22,095 people in 2025, up 9.4% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 8,120 households. Median household income in Morgan County is $78,111, 3% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 18.0%, 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. Morgan County scores 55 for grocery and convenience stores (upper middle), #1,001 of 2,402 scored counties.
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