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Grocery and convenience stores in Moultrie County, IL
How Moultrie County, IL 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
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 4.
- Listings
- 4
- 2 chain locations (50%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $34.3M
- On groceries · $5,903 a household
- Spending per listing
- $8.6M
- 2.5 times the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 6.9
- 63% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 14,371
- −0.8% since 2020
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What this means
At $5,903 per household (7% below the U.S. average), households in Moultrie County spend about $34.3M a year on groceries. Spread across 4 grocery and convenience stores, that is $8.6M per store, 2.5 times the U.S. figure of $3.4M.
Moultrie County has 4 grocery and convenience stores on map listings as of September 2026. That is 6.9 per 10,000 households, 63% below the U.S. rate of 18.7.
Official counts don’t publish a figure for grocery and convenience stores in Moultrie County, since they leave out counts under 3. Official counts list 6 one-person businesses without payroll.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Moultrie County declined 0.8%, against +3.1% for the U.S. With 4 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, Moultrie County isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How Moultrie County compares
The same measures for Illinois 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 | Moultrie County | Illinois | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 6.9 | 15.0 | 18.7 |
| Spending per listing | $8.6M | $4.2M | $3.4M |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 1,442 | 1,293 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +4.8% | +7.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −0.8% | −0.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $5,903 | $6,290 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $71,784 | $83,390 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 60 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- n/a
- Employees, 2023
- n/a
- Annual payroll, 2023
- n/a
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 6Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 42 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 10The 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 Moultrie 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 Moultrie County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 14,371−0.8% since 2020
- Households
- 5,817
- Median age
- 40.3
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 76%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.8
- Land area
- 336 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 43
- Median household income
- $71,784+16.8% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $90,465
- Median home value
- $134,000
- Jobs located here
- 5,116
- Daytime population
- 12,425Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Illinois
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Kendall County, IL | 94 | 46 | 10.1 | $6.8M | +9.9% | #14 of 2,402 |
| 2Grundy County, IL | 83 | 33 | 16.0 | $4M | +2.9% | #135 of 2,402 |
| 3Will County, IL | 81 | 307 | 12.6 | $5.4M | +2.2% | #156 of 2,402 |
| 4McHenry County, IL | 80 | 142 | 12.1 | $5.6M | +2.5% | #176 of 2,402 |
| 5Monroe County, IL | 79 | 22 | 15.9 | $4.2M | −0.3% | #204 of 2,402 |
| 6Boone County, IL | 77 | 18 | 9.2 | $6.8M | +0.4% | #234 of 2,402 |
| 7Kane County, IL | 76 | 260 | 14.1 | $4.8M | +1.8% | #261 of 2,402 |
| 8Tazewell County, IL | 75 | 72 | 13.3 | $4.6M | −0.9% | #287 of 2,402 |
| 9DeKalb County, IL | 75 | 56 | 14.2 | $4.2M | +1.5% | #292 of 2,402 |
| 10Lake County, IL | 74 | 339 | 13.1 | $5.3M | +0.8% | #309 of 2,402 |
| Moultrie County, IL | Not scored | 4 | 6.9 | $8.6M | −0.8% |
Other business types in Moultrie County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
- Grocery and convenience stores
- Grocery stores
- Convenience stores
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 Moultrie County, IL?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 4 grocery and convenience stores in Moultrie County. The listings count grocery, convenience and specialty food stores. No official count is published for grocery and convenience stores in Moultrie County: counts under 3 are left out. Official counts also show 6 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Moultrie County, IL spend on groceries?
About $34.3M a year, or $5,903 per household. That is 7% below the U.S. average (an index of 93, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 4 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $8.6M per store. It is estimated from the incomes of the 5,817 households in Moultrie County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Moultrie County, IL compare with the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores?
Moultrie County has 6.9 grocery and convenience stores per 10,000 households, 63% below the U.S. rate of 18.7. Spending per store is $8.6M, 2.5 times the U.S. figure of $3.4M. At the U.S. ratio of grocery and convenience stores to household spending, Moultrie County would have about 10, against 4 on map listings.
How fast is Moultrie County, IL growing?
Population estimates put Moultrie County at 14,371 people in 2025, down 0.8% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 5,817 households. The median household income in Moultrie County is $71,784 a year, 11% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 16.8% 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. Moultrie County has no market score for grocery and convenience stores: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 4.
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