Groceries and convenience · County · Maryland
Grocery and convenience stores in Queen Anne’s County, MD
The grocery and convenience stores in Queen Anne’s County, MD, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other counties.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 83 out of 100: High
Ranked #141 of 2,402 scored counties
#2 of 24 scored counties in Maryland
- Listings
- 42
- 21 chain locations (50%)
- Official establishments
- 8
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $137.7M
- On groceries · $6,915 a household
- Spending per listing
- $3.3M
- 3% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 21.1
- 13% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 54,448
- +8.8% since 2020
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What this means
The Groundwork market score for grocery and convenience stores in Queen Anne’s County is 83 (high), #141 of 2,402 scored counties and #2 of 24 scored counties in Maryland. That puts it in the top 10% of counties for grocery and convenience stores.
Map listings as of September 2026 show 42 grocery and convenience stores in Queen Anne’s County. Chain locations make up 50% of them, against 42% across the U.S. That is 21.1 per 10,000 households, 13% above the U.S. rate of 18.7.
Household spending on groceries in Queen Anne’s County comes to about $137.7M a year: $6,915 per household, 9% above the U.S. average. Spread across 42 grocery and convenience stores, that is $3.3M per store, 3% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M.
In 2023, official counts showed 8 businesses with payroll in Queen Anne’s County classed as grocery and convenience stores. That is one for every 2,488 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S. Population estimates put the population change in Queen Anne’s County from 2020 to 2025 at +8.8%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How Queen Anne’s County compares
The same measures for Maryland 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 | Queen Anne’s County | Maryland | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 21.1 | 16.2 | 18.7 |
| Spending per listing | $3.3M | $4.2M | $3.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 2,488 | 1,129 | 1,293 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +6.6% | +7.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +8.8% | +1.4% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $6,915 | $6,737 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $112,826 | $103,678 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 83 | 61 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 7 → 8
- Employees, 2023
- 416
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $12.1M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 11Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 4221 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 41The 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 Queen Anne’s 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 Queen Anne’s County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 54,448+8.8% since 2020
- Households
- 19,907
- Median age
- 44.5
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 83%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 372 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 139
- Median household income
- $112,826+16.3% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $141,291
- Median home value
- $462,700
- Jobs located here
- 15,070
- Daytime population
- 42,764Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Maryland
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Frederick County, MD | 86 | 168 | 16.1 | $4.4M | +11.0% | #92 of 2,402 |
| 2Queen Anne’s County, MD | 83 | 42 | 21.1 | $3.3M | +8.8% | #141 of 2,402 |
| 3Howard County, MD | 77 | 159 | 13.1 | $5.8M | +1.9% | #235 of 2,402 |
| 4St. Mary’s County, MD | 77 | 78 | 18.4 | $3.8M | +2.4% | #249 of 2,402 |
| 5Carroll County, MD | 74 | 96 | 14.9 | $4.7M | +2.2% | #313 of 2,402 |
| 6Charles County, MD | 74 | 111 | 18.2 | $3.9M | +5.9% | #321 of 2,402 |
| 7Harford County, MD | 73 | 166 | 16.3 | $4.2M | +2.0% | #350 of 2,402 |
| 8Montgomery County, MD | 72 | 449 | 11.5 | $6.3M | +1.3% | #375 of 2,402 |
| 9Calvert County, MD | 72 | 56 | 16.7 | $4.4M | +1.7% | #382 of 2,402 |
| 10Anne Arundel County, MD | 71 | 313 | 13.9 | $5.1M | +1.7% | #403 of 2,402 |
Other business types in Queen Anne’s County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
- Grocery and convenience stores83
- Grocery stores92
- Convenience stores79
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Questions
How many grocery and convenience stores are in Queen Anne’s County, MD?
There are 42 grocery and convenience stores on map listings in Queen Anne’s County as of September 2026. 21 of them (50%) are chain locations. The listings count grocery, convenience and specialty food stores. Official counts show 8 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in 2023. Another 11 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.
How much do households in Queen Anne’s County, MD spend on groceries?
About $137.7M a year, or $6,915 per household. That is 9% above the U.S. average (an index of 109, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 42 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $3.3M per store. It is estimated from the incomes of the 19,907 households in Queen Anne’s County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Queen Anne’s County, MD compare with the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores?
Queen Anne’s County has 21.1 grocery and convenience stores per 10,000 households, 13% above the U.S. rate of 18.7. Spending per store is $3.3M, 3% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M. At the national ratio of grocery and convenience stores to household spending, Queen Anne’s County would have about 41, against 42 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 2,488 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S.
How fast is Queen Anne’s County, MD growing?
Population estimates put Queen Anne’s County at 54,448 people in 2025, up 8.8% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 19,907 households. Median household income in Queen Anne’s County is $112,826, 40% above the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 16.3%, 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. Queen Anne’s County scores 83 for grocery and convenience stores (high), #141 of 2,402 scored counties.
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