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Grocery and convenience stores in Ballard County, KY
How Ballard County, KY 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
- 1 chain location (11%)
- Official establishments
- 5
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $18.5M
- On groceries · $5,758 a household
- Spending per listing
- $2.1M
- 39% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 28.0
- 50% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 7,594
- −1.5% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 9 grocery and convenience stores in Ballard County. One of them (11%) is a chain location, against 42% across the U.S. That is 28.0 per 10,000 households, 50% above the U.S. rate of 18.7.
Household spending on groceries in Ballard County comes to about $18.5M a year: $5,758 per household, 9% below the U.S. average. Spread across 9 grocery and convenience stores, that is $2.1M per store, 39% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M.
In 2023, official counts showed 5 businesses with payroll in Ballard County classed as grocery and convenience stores. That is one for every 642 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S.
Population estimates put the population change in Ballard County from 2020 to 2025 at −1.5%, 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 Ballard County compares
The same measures for Kentucky 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 | Ballard County | Kentucky | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 28.0 | 19.4 | 18.7 |
| Spending per listing | $2.1M | $3M | $3.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 642 | 1,728 | 1,293 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +11.4% | +7.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −1.5% | +2.2% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $5,758 | $5,746 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $66,164 | $63,726 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 37 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 3 → 5
- Employees, 2023
- 89
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $1.6M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 91 chain location
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 6The 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 Ballard 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 Ballard County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 7,594−1.5% since 2020
- Households
- 3,209
- Median age
- 43.5
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 76%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 247 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 31
- Median household income
- $66,164
- Average household income
- $85,057
- Median home value
- $145,800
- Jobs located here
- 2,184
- Daytime population
- 6,555Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Kentucky
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Oldham County, KY | 94 | 25 | 10.9 | $6.5M | +4.9% | #15 of 2,402 |
| 2Scott County, KY | 87 | 36 | 15.9 | $4M | +8.2% | #83 of 2,402 |
| 3Bullitt County, KY | 86 | 44 | 13.9 | $4.4M | +5.0% | #91 of 2,402 |
| 4Spencer County, KY | 85 | 13 | 17.8 | $3.7M | +7.7% | #104 of 2,402 |
| 5Meade County, KY | 84 | 10 | 9.1 | $6.7M | +2.2% | #106 of 2,402 |
| 6Madison County, KY | 84 | 42 | 11.3 | $5.1M | +9.4% | #111 of 2,402 |
| 7Boone County, KY | 84 | 88 | 17.3 | $3.8M | +6.5% | #117 of 2,402 |
| 8Anderson County, KY | 83 | 14 | 14.5 | $4.1M | +5.5% | #134 of 2,402 |
| 9Jessamine County, KY | 83 | 32 | 16.1 | $3.8M | +7.8% | #137 of 2,402 |
| 10Kenton County, KY | 79 | 85 | 12.6 | $4.9M | +3.9% | #196 of 2,402 |
| Ballard County, KY | Not scored | 9 | 28.0 | $2.1M | −1.5% |
Other business types in Ballard County
None has a Groundwork market score here. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
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 Ballard County, KY?
There are 9 grocery and convenience stores on map listings in Ballard County as of September 2026. One of them (11%) is a chain location. The listings count grocery, convenience and specialty food stores. Official counts show 5 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in 2023.
How much do households in Ballard County, KY spend on groceries?
About $18.5M a year, or $5,758 per household. That is 9% below the U.S. average (an index of 91, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 9 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $2.1M per store. It is estimated from the incomes of the 3,209 households in Ballard County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Ballard County, KY compare with the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores?
Ballard County has 28.0 grocery and convenience stores per 10,000 households, 50% above the U.S. rate of 18.7. Spending per store is $2.1M, 39% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M. At the national ratio of grocery and convenience stores to household spending, Ballard County would have about 6, against 9 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 642 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S.
How fast is Ballard County, KY growing?
Population estimates put Ballard County at 7,594 people in 2025, down 1.5% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 3,209 households. Median household income in Ballard County is $66,164, 18% 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.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
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