Groceries and convenience · Metro area · Maine
Grocery and convenience stores in the Lewiston-Auburn, ME metro area
Competitor counts, household spending and official business counts for grocery and convenience stores in the Lewiston-Auburn, ME metro area, set against other metro areas and the U.S.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 39 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #274 of 387 scored metro areas
#2 of 3 scored metro areas based in Maine
- Listings
- 118
- 48 chain locations (41%)
- Official establishments
- 42
- +23.5% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $298.2M
- On groceries · $6,352 a household
- Spending per listing
- $2.5M
- 25% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 25.1
- 34% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 116,487
- +4.8% since 2020
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What this means
Household spending on groceries in the Lewiston-Auburn metro area comes to about $298.2M a year: $6,352 per household, in line with the U.S. average. That is about $2.5M of household spending for each store on map listings, 25% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M.
The Lewiston-Auburn metro area has 118 grocery and convenience stores on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 41% of them, against 42% across the U.S. That is 25.1 per 10,000 households, 34% above the U.S. rate of 18.7.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in the Lewiston-Auburn metro area was 42 in 2023, up 23.5% from 2019. That is one for every 1,118 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S. Another 18 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts. Since fiscal 2022, 6 SBA-backed loans worth $857K have gone to businesses classed as grocery and convenience stores in the Lewiston-Auburn metro area.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Lewiston-Auburn metro area grew 4.8%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). For grocery and convenience stores, the Lewiston-Auburn metro area has a Groundwork market score of 39 (lower middle): #274 of 387 scored metro areas and #2 of 3 scored metro areas based in Maine.
How the Lewiston-Auburn metro area compares
The same measures for Maine 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 | Lewiston-Auburn metro area | Maine | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 25.1 | 31.6 | 18.7 |
| Spending per listing | $2.5M | $2.1M | $3.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 1,118 | 1,053 | 1,293 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +23.5% | +0.2% | +7.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +4.8% | +3.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $6,352 | $6,619 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $67,873 | $74,733 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 39 | 33 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 42+23.5% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 1,213
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $32.8M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 18Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 11848 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 88The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 6
- Amount
- $857K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as grocery and convenience stores in the Lewiston-Auburn metro area, 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 the Lewiston-Auburn metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 116,487+4.8% since 2020
- Households
- 46,953
- Median age
- 41.6
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 68%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.7
- Land area
- 468 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 242
- Median household income
- $67,873+26.8% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $86,271
- Median home value
- $252,800
- Jobs located here
- 50,802
- Daytime population
- 111,740Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Maine market ranked →The highest-scoring metro areas in Maine for grocery and convenience stores, numbered among those based in Maine, with the Lewiston-Auburn metro area marked.
Top metro areas in Maine
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Portland-South Portland, ME | 47 | 620 | 25.8 | $2.7M | +4.5% | #223 of 387 |
| 2Lewiston-Auburn, ME | 39 | 118 | 25.1 | $2.5M | +4.8% | #274 of 387 |
| 3Bangor, ME | 34 | 198 | 30.4 | $2.1M | +3.8% | #306 of 387 |
Other business types in the Lewiston-Auburn metro area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
- Grocery and convenience stores39
- Grocery stores46
- Convenience stores42
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Questions
How many grocery and convenience stores are in the Lewiston-Auburn, ME metro area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 118 grocery and convenience stores in the Lewiston-Auburn metro area. 48 of them (41%) are chain locations. The listings count grocery, convenience and specialty food stores. Official counts show 42 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in 2023, up 23.5% from 2019. Official counts list 18 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in the Lewiston-Auburn, ME metro area spend on groceries?
About $298.2M a year, or $6,352 per household. That is in line with the U.S. average (an index of 101, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 118 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $2.5M per store. It is estimated from the incomes of the 46,953 households in the Lewiston-Auburn metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Lewiston-Auburn, ME metro area compare with the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores?
The Lewiston-Auburn metro area has 25.1 grocery and convenience stores per 10,000 households, 34% above the U.S. rate of 18.7. Spending per store is $2.5M, 25% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M. At the U.S. ratio of grocery and convenience stores to household spending, the Lewiston-Auburn metro area would have about 88, against 118 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,118 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S. The official count rose 23.5% from 2019 to 2023, against +7.2% for the U.S.
How fast is the Lewiston-Auburn, ME metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Lewiston-Auburn metro area at 116,487 people in 2025, up 4.8% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 46,953 households. The median household income in the Lewiston-Auburn metro area is $67,873 a year, 16% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 26.8% 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. The Lewiston-Auburn metro area scores 39 for grocery and convenience stores (lower middle), #274 of 387 scored metro areas.
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