Groceries and convenience · Small-town market · North Dakota
Grocery and convenience stores in the Wahpeton, ND-MN area
How the Wahpeton, ND-MN area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 43 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #359 of 538 scored small-town markets
#4 of 4 scored small-town markets based in North Dakota
- Listings
- 28
- 10 chain locations (36%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $56.9M
- On groceries · $5,991 a household
- Spending per listing
- $2M
- 40% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 29.5
- 58% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 23,019
- 0.0% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 28 grocery and convenience stores in the Wahpeton area. Of those, 10 are chain locations, or 36%, against 42% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 29.5, 58% above the U.S. rate of 18.7.
Households in the Wahpeton area spend about $56.9M a year on groceries, or $5,991 per household, 5% below the U.S. average. That is about $2M of household spending for each store on map listings, 40% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M.
There is no official count of businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in the Wahpeton area: counts under 3 aren’t published.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Wahpeton area held about level, against +3.1% for the U.S. The Wahpeton area scores 43 (lower middle) on the Groundwork market score for grocery and convenience stores, ranking #359 of 538 scored small-town markets and #4 of 4 scored small-town markets based in North Dakota.
How the Wahpeton area compares
The same measures for North Dakota 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 | Wahpeton area | North Dakota | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 29.5 | 22.7 | 18.7 |
| Spending per listing | $2M | $2.7M | $3.4M |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 1,809 | 1,293 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | −2.1% | +7.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | 0.0% | +2.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $5,991 | $6,077 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $73,734 | $76,657 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 43 | 41 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- n/a
- Employees, 2023
- n/a
- Annual payroll, 2023
- n/a
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 2810 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 17The 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 Wahpeton 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 Wahpeton area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 23,0190.0% since 2020
- Households
- 9,504
- Median age
- 39.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 71%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 2,187 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 10
- Median household income
- $73,734+20.6% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $95,848
- Median home value
- $183,300
- Jobs located here
- 9,601
- Daytime population
- 21,383Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top small-town markets in North Dakota
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Williston, ND | 75 | 36 | 23.8 | $2.7M | +1.4% | #42 of 538 |
| 2Dickinson, ND | 65 | 42 | 27.1 | $2.3M | +0.7% | #126 of 538 |
| 3Jamestown, ND | 44 | 23 | 24.4 | $2.3M | −0.6% | #338 of 538 |
| 4Wahpeton, ND-MN | 43 | 28 | 29.5 | $2M | 0.0% | #359 of 538 |
Other business types in the Wahpeton 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 stores43
- Grocery stores40
- Convenience stores57
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Questions
How many grocery and convenience stores are in the Wahpeton, ND-MN area?
There are 28 grocery and convenience stores on map listings in the Wahpeton area as of September 2026. 10 of them (36%) are chain locations. The listings count grocery, convenience and specialty food stores. No official count is published for grocery and convenience stores in the Wahpeton area: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in the Wahpeton, ND-MN area spend on groceries?
About $56.9M a year, or $5,991 per household. That is 5% below the U.S. average (an index of 95, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 28 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $2M per store. It is estimated from the incomes of the 9,504 households in the Wahpeton area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Wahpeton, ND-MN area compare with the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores?
The Wahpeton area has 29.5 grocery and convenience stores per 10,000 households, 58% above the U.S. rate of 18.7. Spending per store is $2M, 40% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M. At the national ratio of grocery and convenience stores to household spending, the Wahpeton area would have about 17, against 28 on map listings.
How fast is the Wahpeton, ND-MN area growing?
Population estimates put the Wahpeton area at 23,019 people in 2025, unchanged since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 9,504 households. Median household income in the Wahpeton area is $73,734, 9% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 20.6%, 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. 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 Wahpeton area scores 43 for grocery and convenience stores (lower middle), #359 of 538 scored small-town markets.
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