Groceries and convenience · Small-town market · Massachusetts
Grocery and convenience stores in the Nantucket, MA area
The grocery and convenience stores in the Nantucket, MA area, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other small-town markets.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 44 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #348 of 538 scored small-town markets
#3 of 3 scored small-town markets based in Massachusetts
- Listings
- 22
- 5 chain locations (23%)
- Official establishments
- 9
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $43.4M
- On groceries · $8,254 a household
- Spending per listing
- $2M
- 42% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 41.9
- 2.2 times the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 14,758
- +3.6% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 22 grocery and convenience stores in the Nantucket area. Chain locations make up 23% of them, against 42% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 41.9, 2.2 times the U.S. rate of 18.7.
Household spending on groceries in the Nantucket area comes to about $43.4M a year: $8,254 per household, 31% above the U.S. average. That is about $2M of household spending for each store on map listings, 42% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M.
In 2023, official counts showed 9 businesses with payroll in the Nantucket area classed as grocery and convenience stores. That is one for every 584 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S.
Population estimates put the population change in the Nantucket area from 2020 to 2025 at +3.6%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). For grocery and convenience stores, the Nantucket area has a Groundwork market score of 44 (lower middle): #348 of 538 scored small-town markets and #3 of 3 scored small-town markets based in Massachusetts.
How the Nantucket area compares
The same measures for Massachusetts 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 | Nantucket area | Massachusetts | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 41.9 | 18.6 | 18.7 |
| Spending per listing | $2M | $4M | $3.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 584 | 899 | 1,293 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +2.5% | +7.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +3.6% | +2.4% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $8,254 | $7,382 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $139,688 | $103,960 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 44 | 60 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 9
- Employees, 2023
- 196
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $11.2M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 225 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 13The 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 the Nantucket 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 Nantucket area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 14,758+3.6% since 2020
- Households
- 5,252
- Median age
- 42.4
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 72%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 46 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 314
- Median household income
- $139,688
- Average household income
- $205,560
- Median home value
- $1,593,800
- Jobs located here
- 6,570
- Daytime population
- 13,667Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top small-town markets in Massachusetts
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Greenfield, MA | 51 | 77 | 24.4 | $2.7M | −0.3% | #275 of 538 |
| 2Vineyard Haven, MA | 44 | 29 | 38.2 | $2M | +3.1% | #345 of 538 |
| 3Nantucket, MA | 44 | 22 | 41.9 | $2M | +3.6% | #348 of 538 |
Other business types in the Nantucket area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Groceries and convenience
- Grocery and convenience stores44
- Grocery stores42
- Convenience stores71
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Questions
How many grocery and convenience stores are in the Nantucket, MA area?
There are 22 grocery and convenience stores on map listings in the Nantucket area as of September 2026. 5 of them (23%) are chain locations. The listings count grocery, convenience and specialty food stores. Official counts show 9 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in 2023.
How much do households in the Nantucket, MA area spend on groceries?
About $43.4M a year, or $8,254 per household. That is 31% above the U.S. average (an index of 131, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 22 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $2M per store. It is estimated from the incomes of the 5,252 households in the Nantucket area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Nantucket, MA area compare with the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores?
The Nantucket area has 41.9 grocery and convenience stores per 10,000 households, 2.2 times the U.S. rate of 18.7. Spending per store is $2M, 42% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M. At the national ratio of grocery and convenience stores to household spending, the Nantucket area would have about 13, against 22 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 584 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S.
How fast is the Nantucket, MA area growing?
Population estimates put the Nantucket area at 14,758 people in 2025, up 3.6% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 5,252 households. Median household income in the Nantucket area is $139,688, 73% above 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. A small-town market is a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people and the county or counties tied to it by commuting. 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 Nantucket area scores 44 for grocery and convenience stores (lower middle), #348 of 538 scored small-town markets.
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