Groceries and convenience · County · New Hampshire
Grocery and convenience stores in Coos County, NH
How Coos County, NH 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 30 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #1,970 of 2,402 scored counties
#10 of 10 scored counties in New Hampshire
- Listings
- 55
- 17 chain locations (31%)
- Official establishments
- 13
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $85.5M
- On groceries · $6,104 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.6M
- 54% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 39.3
- 2.1 times the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 31,343
- +0.4% since 2020
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What this means
For grocery and convenience stores, Coos County has a Groundwork market score of 30 (lower middle): #1,970 of 2,402 scored counties and #10 of 10 scored counties in New Hampshire. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Household spending on groceries in Coos County comes to about $85.5M a year: $6,104 per household, 3% below the U.S. average. Spread across 55 grocery and convenience stores, that is $1.6M per store, 54% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M.
Coos County has 55 grocery and convenience stores on map listings as of September 2026. Of those, 17 are chain locations, or 31%, against 42% across the U.S. That comes to 39.3 for every 10,000 households, 2.1 times the U.S. rate of 18.7.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in Coos County was 13 in 2023. That is one for every 1,077 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S. Population estimates put the population change in Coos County from 2020 to 2025 at +0.4%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How Coos County compares
The same measures for New Hampshire 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 | Coos County | New Hampshire | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 39.3 | 23.1 | 18.7 |
| Spending per listing | $1.6M | $3.1M | $3.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 1,077 | 1,160 | 1,293 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +9.1% | +7.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +0.4% | +2.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $6,104 | $7,252 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $57,677 | $99,031 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 30 | 52 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 17 → 13
- Employees, 2023
- 272
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $7.1M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 4Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 5517 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 25The 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 Coos 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 Coos County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 31,343+0.4% since 2020
- Households
- 14,002
- Median age
- 48.8
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 74%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.7
- Land area
- 1,795 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 17
- Median household income
- $57,677+22.4% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $83,445
- Median home value
- $188,900
- Jobs located here
- 11,577
- Daytime population
- 27,944Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in New Hampshire
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Merrimack County, NH | 69 | 128 | 21.0 | $3.4M | +2.6% | #470 of 2,402 |
| 2Hillsborough County, NH | 68 | 315 | 18.7 | $4M | +2.5% | #495 of 2,402 |
| 3Rockingham County, NH | 68 | 279 | 21.9 | $3.5M | +3.0% | #501 of 2,402 |
| 4Strafford County, NH | 62 | 116 | 22.3 | $3.2M | +3.0% | #715 of 2,402 |
| 5Belknap County, NH | 60 | 65 | 24.7 | $2.8M | +2.1% | #808 of 2,402 |
| 6Sullivan County, NH | 50 | 44 | 26.5 | $2.5M | +2.1% | #1,211 of 2,402 |
| 7Grafton County, NH | 46 | 110 | 29.6 | $2.4M | +2.2% | #1,366 of 2,402 |
| 8Carroll County, NH | 45 | 73 | 33.4 | $2.1M | +5.0% | #1,409 of 2,402 |
| 9Cheshire County, NH | 44 | 97 | 31.7 | $2.2M | +2.3% | #1,449 of 2,402 |
| 10Coos County, NH | 30 | 55 | 39.3 | $1.6M | +0.4% | #1,970 of 2,402 |
Other business types in Coos County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
- Grocery and convenience stores30
- Grocery stores30
- Convenience stores34
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 Coos County, NH?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 55 grocery and convenience stores in Coos County. 17 of them (31%) are chain locations. The listings count grocery, convenience and specialty food stores. Official counts show 13 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in 2023. Official counts list 4 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Coos County, NH spend on groceries?
About $85.5M a year, or $6,104 per household. That is 3% below the U.S. average (an index of 97, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 55 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $1.6M per store. It is estimated from the incomes of the 14,002 households in Coos County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Coos County, NH compare with the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores?
Coos County has 39.3 grocery and convenience stores per 10,000 households, 2.1 times the U.S. rate of 18.7. Spending per store is $1.6M, 54% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M. At the U.S. ratio of grocery and convenience stores to household spending, Coos County would have about 25, against 55 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,077 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S.
How fast is Coos County, NH growing?
Population estimates put Coos County at 31,343 people in 2025, up 0.4% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 14,002 households. The median household income in Coos County is $57,677 a year, 29% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 22.4% 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. Coos County scores 30 for grocery and convenience stores (lower middle), #1,970 of 2,402 scored counties.
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