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Grocery and convenience stores in Harrison County, OH
How Harrison County, OH 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 22 out of 100: Low
Ranked #2,162 of 2,402 scored counties
#88 of 88 scored counties in Ohio
- Listings
- 13
- 4 chain locations (31%)
- Official establishments
- 7
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $32.3M
- On groceries · $5,427 a household
- Spending per listing
- $2.5M
- 27% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 21.9
- 17% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 14,070
- −2.9% since 2020
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What this means
For grocery and convenience stores, Harrison County has a Groundwork market score of 22 (low): #2,162 of 2,402 scored counties and #88 of 88 scored counties in Ohio. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Households in Harrison County spend about $32.3M a year on groceries, or $5,427 per household, 14% below the U.S. average. That works out to $2.5M per store, 27% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M.
Harrison County has 13 grocery and convenience stores on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 31% of them, against 42% across the U.S. That comes to 21.9 for every 10,000 households, 17% above the U.S. rate of 18.7.
In 2023, official counts showed 7 businesses with payroll in Harrison County classed as grocery and convenience stores. That is one for every 850 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S. Population estimates put the population change in Harrison County from 2020 to 2025 at −2.9%, against +3.1% for the U.S.
How Harrison County compares
The same measures for Ohio 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 | Harrison County | Ohio | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 21.9 | 17.1 | 18.7 |
| Spending per listing | $2.5M | $3.5M | $3.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 850 | 1,422 | 1,293 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +4.2% | +7.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −2.9% | +0.9% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $5,427 | $5,967 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $54,414 | $71,389 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 22 | 43 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 4 → 7
- Employees, 2023
- 108
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $2M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 134 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 10The 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 Harrison 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 Harrison County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 14,070−2.9% since 2020
- Households
- 5,948
- Median age
- 44.8
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 76%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 402 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 36
- Median household income
- $54,414+9.5% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $73,322
- Median home value
- $121,500
- Jobs located here
- 3,551
- Daytime population
- 12,141Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Ohio
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Delaware County, OH | 95 | 96 | 11.7 | $6.3M | +12.5% | #10 of 2,402 |
| 2Union County, OH | 93 | 35 | 14.4 | $4.7M | +16.5% | #25 of 2,402 |
| 3Fairfield County, OH | 91 | 80 | 13.3 | $4.8M | +6.5% | #39 of 2,402 |
| 4Warren County, OH | 86 | 110 | 11.9 | $5.8M | +5.7% | #86 of 2,402 |
| 5Clermont County, OH | 84 | 88 | 10.4 | $6.1M | +3.9% | #107 of 2,402 |
| 6Madison County, OH | 84 | 26 | 16.6 | $3.8M | +7.1% | #118 of 2,402 |
| 7Miami County, OH | 83 | 60 | 13.4 | $4.5M | +3.4% | #127 of 2,402 |
| 8Medina County, OH | 81 | 106 | 14.5 | $4.5M | +1.3% | #161 of 2,402 |
| 9Greene County, OH | 80 | 79 | 11.6 | $5.5M | +3.7% | #177 of 2,402 |
| 10Pickaway County, OH | 80 | 32 | 14.6 | $4.1M | +7.4% | #182 of 2,402 |
| 88Harrison County, OH | 22 | 13 | 21.9 | $2.5M | −2.9% | #2,162 of 2,402 |
Other business types in Harrison County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
- Grocery and convenience stores22
- Grocery stores
- Convenience stores16
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 Harrison County, OH?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 13 grocery and convenience stores in Harrison County. 4 of them (31%) are chain locations. The listings count grocery, convenience and specialty food stores. Official counts show 7 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in 2023.
How much do households in Harrison County, OH spend on groceries?
About $32.3M a year, or $5,427 per household. That is 14% below the U.S. average (an index of 86, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 13 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $2.5M per store. It is estimated from the incomes of the 5,948 households in Harrison County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Harrison County, OH compare with the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores?
Harrison County has 21.9 grocery and convenience stores per 10,000 households, 17% above the U.S. rate of 18.7. Spending per store is $2.5M, 27% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M. At the U.S. ratio of grocery and convenience stores to household spending, Harrison County would have about 10, against 13 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 850 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S.
How fast is Harrison County, OH growing?
Population estimates put Harrison County at 14,070 people in 2025, down 2.9% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 5,948 households. The median household income in Harrison County is $54,414 a year, 33% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 9.5% 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. Harrison County scores 22 for grocery and convenience stores (low), #2,162 of 2,402 scored counties.
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