Groceries and convenience · County · Louisiana
Grocery and convenience stores in Livingston Parish, LA
How Livingston Parish, LA 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 67 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #546 of 2,402 scored counties
#2 of 56 scored counties in Louisiana
- Listings
- 125
- 48 chain locations (38%)
- Official establishments
- 26
- +18.2% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $323.4M
- On groceries · $6,034 a household
- Spending per listing
- $2.6M
- 24% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 23.3
- 25% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 155,036
- +8.5% since 2020
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What this means
Household spending on groceries in Livingston Parish comes to about $323.4M a year: $6,034 per household, 5% below the U.S. average. Spread across 125 grocery and convenience stores, that is $2.6M per store, 24% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M.
Livingston Parish has 125 grocery and convenience stores on map listings as of September 2026. 48 of them (38%) are chain locations, against 42% across the U.S. That comes to 23.3 for every 10,000 households, 25% above the U.S. rate of 18.7.
In 2023, official counts showed 26 businesses with payroll in Livingston Parish classed as grocery and convenience stores, up 18.2% from 2019. That is one for every 2,061 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S. Official counts also show 34 one-person businesses without payroll. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $500K has gone to businesses classed as grocery and convenience stores in Livingston Parish.
Population estimates put the population change in Livingston Parish from 2020 to 2025 at +8.5%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). Livingston Parish scores 67 (upper middle) on the Groundwork market score for grocery and convenience stores, ranking #546 of 2,402 scored counties and #2 of 56 scored counties in Louisiana. That puts it in the top quarter of counties.
How Livingston Parish compares
The same measures for Louisiana 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 | Livingston Parish | Louisiana | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 23.3 | 25.1 | 18.7 |
| Spending per listing | $2.6M | $2.3M | $3.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 2,061 | 1,210 | 1,293 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +18.2% | +8.6% | +7.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +8.5% | −0.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $6,034 | $5,704 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $80,122 | $60,756 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 67 | 12 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 22 → 26+18.2% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 1,082
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $24.2M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 34Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 12548 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 96The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $500K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as grocery and convenience stores in Livingston Parish, 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 Livingston Parish
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 155,036+8.5% since 2020
- Households
- 53,596
- Median age
- 37.0
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 81%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 648 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 229
- Median household income
- $80,122+26.4% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $93,408
- Median home value
- $230,600
- Jobs located here
- 31,799
- Daytime population
- 114,602Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Louisiana
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1St. Tammany Parish, LA | 73 | 189 | 18.0 | $3.5M | +5.3% | #366 of 2,402 |
| 2Livingston Parish, LA | 67 | 125 | 23.3 | $2.6M | +8.5% | #546 of 2,402 |
| 3Bossier Parish, LA | 65 | 86 | 16.9 | $3.5M | +2.5% | #591 of 2,402 |
| 4Ascension Parish, LA | 64 | 103 | 21.6 | $3M | +6.4% | #645 of 2,402 |
| 5De Soto Parish, LA | 54 | 21 | 20.0 | $2.7M | +2.0% | #1,039 of 2,402 |
| 6East Feliciana Parish, LA | 52 | 10 | 15.6 | $3.8M | −2.8% | #1,102 of 2,402 |
| 7Beauregard Parish, LA | 52 | 34 | 24.7 | $2.4M | +0.2% | #1,141 of 2,402 |
| 8West Baton Rouge Parish, LA | 50 | 30 | 27.3 | $2.3M | +5.5% | #1,221 of 2,402 |
| 9Lafourche Parish, LA | 47 | 82 | 21.7 | $2.6M | −2.0% | #1,324 of 2,402 |
| 10Tangipahoa Parish, LA | 45 | 140 | 26.9 | $2.1M | +5.8% | #1,408 of 2,402 |
Other business types in Livingston Parish
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
- Grocery and convenience stores67
- Grocery stores71
- Convenience stores63
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 Livingston Parish, LA?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 125 grocery and convenience stores in Livingston Parish. 48 of them (38%) are chain locations. The listings count grocery, convenience and specialty food stores. Official counts show 26 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in 2023, up 18.2% from 2019. Another 34 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.
How much do households in Livingston Parish, LA spend on groceries?
About $323.4M a year, or $6,034 per household. That is 5% below the U.S. average (an index of 95, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 125 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $2.6M per store. It is estimated from the incomes of the 53,596 households in Livingston Parish and national spending patterns by income.
How does Livingston Parish, LA compare with the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores?
Livingston Parish has 23.3 grocery and convenience stores per 10,000 households, 25% above the U.S. rate of 18.7. Spending per store is $2.6M, 24% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M. At the U.S. ratio of grocery and convenience stores to household spending, Livingston Parish would have about 96, against 125 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 2,061 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S. The official count rose 18.2% from 2019 to 2023, against +7.2% for the U.S.
How fast is Livingston Parish, LA growing?
Population estimates put Livingston Parish at 155,036 people in 2025, up 8.5% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 53,596 households. The median household income in Livingston Parish is $80,122 a year, in line with the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 26.4% 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. Livingston Parish scores 67 for grocery and convenience stores (upper middle), #546 of 2,402 scored counties.
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