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Grocery and convenience stores in Ontonagon County, MI
How Ontonagon County, MI 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
- 13
- 6 chain locations (46%)
- Official establishments
- 3
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $16.8M
- On groceries · $5,329 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.3M
- 62% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 41.3
- 2.2 times the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 5,823
- +0.4% since 2020
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What this means
Households in Ontonagon County spend about $16.8M a year on groceries, or $5,329 per household, 16% below the U.S. average. That works out to $1.3M per store, 62% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M.
Ontonagon County has 13 grocery and convenience stores on map listings as of September 2026. 6 of them (46%) are chain locations, against 42% across the U.S. That comes to 41.3 for every 10,000 households, 2.2 times the U.S. rate of 18.7.
In 2023, official counts showed 3 businesses with payroll in Ontonagon County classed as grocery and convenience stores. That is one for every 1,050 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Ontonagon County grew 0.4%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). Counties under 10,000 people aren’t given a market score, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
How Ontonagon County compares
The same measures for Michigan 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 | Ontonagon County | Michigan | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 41.3 | 17.3 | 18.7 |
| Spending per listing | $1.3M | $3.5M | $3.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 1,050 | 1,613 | 1,293 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +0.2% | +7.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +0.4% | +0.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $5,329 | $6,009 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $54,398 | $72,875 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 47 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 3 → 3
- Employees, 2023
- 103
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $2.4M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 136 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 5The 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 Ontonagon 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 Ontonagon County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 5,823+0.4% since 2020
- Households
- 3,149
- Median age
- 58.5
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 87%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 1,311 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 4
- Median household income
- $54,398
- Average household income
- $67,617
- Median home value
- $111,700
- Jobs located here
- 1,117
- Daytime population
- 5,087Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Michigan
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Livingston County, MI | 87 | 75 | 9.8 | $6.9M | +1.7% | #72 of 2,402 |
| 2Ottawa County, MI | 83 | 168 | 15.1 | $4.3M | +3.9% | #130 of 2,402 |
| 3Clinton County, MI | 78 | 48 | 15.2 | $4.2M | +1.6% | #220 of 2,402 |
| 4Oakland County, MI | 77 | 663 | 12.5 | $5.3M | +1.2% | #236 of 2,402 |
| 5Monroe County, MI | 77 | 79 | 12.5 | $4.9M | +0.7% | #238 of 2,402 |
| 6Macomb County, MI | 74 | 431 | 12.0 | $5.1M | +0.7% | #310 of 2,402 |
| 7Washtenaw County, MI | 73 | 180 | 12.0 | $5.4M | −0.4% | #341 of 2,402 |
| 8Kent County, MI | 73 | 420 | 16.4 | $3.8M | +2.5% | #357 of 2,402 |
| 9Eaton County, MI | 72 | 67 | 14.7 | $4.1M | +0.4% | #386 of 2,402 |
| 10Barry County, MI | 70 | 43 | 17.6 | $3.5M | +2.2% | #444 of 2,402 |
| Ontonagon County, MI | Not scored | 13 | 41.3 | $1.3M | +0.4% |
Other business types in Ontonagon 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
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Home services
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Funeral services
Questions
How many grocery and convenience stores are in Ontonagon County, MI?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 13 grocery and convenience stores in Ontonagon County. 6 of them (46%) are chain locations. The listings count grocery, convenience and specialty food stores. Official counts show 3 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in 2023.
How much do households in Ontonagon County, MI spend on groceries?
About $16.8M a year, or $5,329 per household. That is 16% below the U.S. average (an index of 84, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 13 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $1.3M per store. It is estimated from the incomes of the 3,149 households in Ontonagon County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Ontonagon County, MI compare with the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores?
Ontonagon County has 41.3 grocery and convenience stores per 10,000 households, 2.2 times the U.S. rate of 18.7. Spending per store is $1.3M, 62% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M. At the U.S. ratio of grocery and convenience stores to household spending, Ontonagon County would have about 5, against 13 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,050 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S.
How fast is Ontonagon County, MI growing?
Population estimates put Ontonagon County at 5,823 people in 2025, up 0.4% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 3,149 households. The median household income in Ontonagon County is $54,398 a year, 33% 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.
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