Groceries and convenience · Metro area · Oklahoma
Grocery and convenience stores in the Tulsa, OK metro area
How the Tulsa, OK metro area compares with other metro areas and the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 69 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #67 of 387 scored metro areas
#1 of 4 scored metro areas based in Oklahoma
- Listings
- 650
- 286 chain locations (44%)
- Official establishments
- 161
- +17.8% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $2.4B
- On groceries · $5,928 a household
- Spending per listing
- $3.7M
- 9% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 16.0
- 14% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 1,069,273
- +5.1% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 650 grocery and convenience stores in the Tulsa metro area. Chain locations make up 44% of them, against 42% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 16.0, 14% below the U.S. rate of 18.7.
At $5,928 per household (6% below the U.S. average), households in the Tulsa metro area spend about $2.4B a year on groceries. That works out to $3.7M per store, 9% above the U.S. figure of $3.4M.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in the Tulsa metro area was 161 in 2023, up 17.8% from 2019. That is one for every 2,525 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S. Another 192 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts. Since fiscal 2022, 10 SBA-backed loans worth $5.3M have gone to businesses classed as grocery and convenience stores in the Tulsa metro area.
Population estimates put the population change in the Tulsa metro area from 2020 to 2025 at +5.1%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). For grocery and convenience stores, the Tulsa metro area has a Groundwork market score of 69 (upper middle): #67 of 387 scored metro areas and #1 of 4 scored metro areas based in Oklahoma. That puts it in the top quarter of metro areas.
How the Tulsa metro area compares
The same measures for Oklahoma 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 | Tulsa metro area | Oklahoma | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 16.0 | 20.6 | 18.7 |
| Spending per listing | $3.7M | $2.8M | $3.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 2,525 | 2,288 | 1,293 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +17.8% | +4.4% | +7.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +5.1% | +4.0% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $5,928 | $5,787 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $69,359 | $65,039 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 69 | 49 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 161+17.8% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 6,040
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $162.9M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 192Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 650286 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 711The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 10
- Amount
- $5.3M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as grocery and convenience stores in the Tulsa metro 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 Tulsa metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 1,069,273+5.1% since 2020
- Households
- 406,447
- Median age
- 38.1
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 65%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 6,270 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 165
- Median household income
- $69,359+24.4% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $95,898
- Median home value
- $221,700
- Jobs located here
- 463,622
- Daytime population
- 1,045,426Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Oklahoma market ranked →The highest-scoring metro areas in Oklahoma for grocery and convenience stores, numbered among those based in Oklahoma (a market based in another state is listed without a number), with the Tulsa metro area marked.
Top metro areas in Oklahoma
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Tulsa, OK | 69 | 650 | 16.0 | $3.7M | +5.1% | #67 of 387 |
| 2Oklahoma City, OK | 67 | 1,006 | 17.6 | $3.4M | +5.8% | #79 of 387 |
| Fort Smith, AR-OK | 36 | 192 | 21.1 | $2.6M | +3.1% | #294 of 387 |
| 3Lawton, OK | 28 | 117 | 24.9 | $2.2M | +0.7% | #335 of 387 |
| 4Enid, OK | 19 | 61 | 25.5 | $2.3M | −1.5% | #366 of 387 |
Other business types in the Tulsa metro area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
- Grocery and convenience stores69
- Grocery stores69
- Convenience stores65
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Fitness and classes
Health care
Child care
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Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many grocery and convenience stores are in the Tulsa, OK metro area?
There are 650 grocery and convenience stores on map listings in the Tulsa metro area as of September 2026. 286 of them (44%) are chain locations. The listings count grocery, convenience and specialty food stores. Official counts show 161 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in 2023, up 17.8% from 2019. Official counts list 192 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in the Tulsa, OK metro area spend on groceries?
About $2.4B a year, or $5,928 per household. That is 6% below the U.S. average (an index of 94, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 650 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $3.7M per store. It is estimated from the incomes of the 406,447 households in the Tulsa metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Tulsa, OK metro area compare with the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores?
The Tulsa metro area has 16.0 grocery and convenience stores per 10,000 households, 14% below the U.S. rate of 18.7. Spending per store is $3.7M, 9% above the U.S. figure of $3.4M. At the national ratio of grocery and convenience stores to household spending, the Tulsa metro area would have about 711, against 650 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 2,525 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S. The official count rose 17.8% from 2019 to 2023, against +7.2% for the U.S.
How fast is the Tulsa, OK metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Tulsa metro area at 1,069,273 people in 2025, up 5.1% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 406,447 households. Median household income in the Tulsa metro area is $69,359, 14% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 24.4%, 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. The Tulsa metro area scores 69 for grocery and convenience stores (upper middle), #67 of 387 scored metro areas.
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