Groceries and convenience · Small-town market · Oregon
Grocery and convenience stores in the Baker City, OR area
How the Baker City, OR 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 15 out of 100: Low
Ranked #516 of 538 scored small-town markets
#12 of 12 scored small-town markets based in Oregon
- Listings
- 28
- 10 chain locations (36%)
- Official establishments
- 9
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $40.3M
- On groceries · $5,479 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.4M
- 58% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 38.1
- Twice the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 16,658
- −0.4% since 2020
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What this means
The Groundwork market score for grocery and convenience stores in the Baker City area is 15 (low), #516 of 538 scored small-town markets and #12 of 12 scored small-town markets based in Oregon. That puts it in the bottom quarter of small-town markets.
At $5,479 per household (13% below the U.S. average), households in the Baker City area spend about $40.3M a year on groceries. Spread across 28 grocery and convenience stores, that is $1.4M per store, 58% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M.
The Baker City area has 28 grocery and convenience stores on map listings as of September 2026. Of those, 10 are chain locations, or 36%, against 42% across the U.S. That is 38.1 per 10,000 households, twice the U.S. rate of 18.7.
Official counts show 9 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in the Baker City area in 2023. That is one for every 817 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S. Population estimates show the Baker City area declined 0.4% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S.
How the Baker City area compares
The same measures for Oregon 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 | Baker City area | Oregon | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 38.1 | 19.6 | 18.7 |
| Spending per listing | $1.4M | $3.1M | $3.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 817 | 994 | 1,293 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +6.4% | +7.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −0.4% | +0.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $5,479 | $6,152 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $60,936 | $83,011 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 15 | 34 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 9
- Employees, 2023
- 285
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $8.1M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 2810 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 12The 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 Baker City 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 Baker City area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 16,658−0.4% since 2020
- Households
- 7,355
- Median age
- 46.4
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 71%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 3,068 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 5
- Median household income
- $60,936
- Average household income
- $76,443
- Median home value
- $285,600
- Jobs located here
- 5,330
- Daytime population
- 16,084Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top small-town markets in Oregon
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1The Dalles, OR | 42 | 21 | 19.9 | $2.8M | −1.1% | #363 of 538 |
| 2Hermiston-Pendleton, OR | 37 | 92 | 27.9 | $2.1M | +1.8% | #406 of 538 |
| 3Roseburg, OR | 34 | 109 | 22.9 | $2.4M | +0.6% | #421 of 538 |
| 4Astoria, OR | 33 | 48 | 26.7 | $2.2M | −0.6% | #430 of 538 |
| 5Newport, OR | 32 | 59 | 25.5 | $2.2M | +0.3% | #440 of 538 |
| 6Hood River, OR | 30 | 33 | 36.9 | $1.7M | −0.7% | #455 of 538 |
| 7Ontario, OR-ID | 30 | 72 | 36.0 | $1.5M | +5.0% | #457 of 538 |
| 8La Grande, OR | 27 | 29 | 26.6 | $2.1M | −1.0% | #467 of 538 |
| 9Klamath Falls, OR | 27 | 76 | 26.2 | $2.1M | +0.9% | #468 of 538 |
| 10Brookings, OR | 26 | 27 | 24.2 | $2.3M | −3.8% | #469 of 538 |
| 12Baker City, OR | 15 | 28 | 38.1 | $1.4M | −0.4% | #516 of 538 |
Other business types in the Baker City area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
- Grocery and convenience stores15
- Grocery stores17
- Convenience stores21
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 the Baker City, OR area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 28 grocery and convenience stores in the Baker City area. 10 of them (36%) are chain locations. The listings count grocery, convenience and specialty food stores. Official counts show 9 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in 2023.
How much do households in the Baker City, OR area spend on groceries?
About $40.3M a year, or $5,479 per household. That is 13% below the U.S. average (an index of 87, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 28 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $1.4M per store. It is estimated from the incomes of the 7,355 households in the Baker City area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Baker City, OR area compare with the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores?
The Baker City area has 38.1 grocery and convenience stores per 10,000 households, twice the U.S. rate of 18.7. Spending per store is $1.4M, 58% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M. At the U.S. ratio of grocery and convenience stores to household spending, the Baker City area would have about 12, against 28 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 817 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S.
How fast is the Baker City, OR area growing?
Population estimates put the Baker City area at 16,658 people in 2025, down 0.4% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 7,355 households. The median household income in the Baker City area is $60,936 a year, 25% 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. 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 Baker City area scores 15 for grocery and convenience stores (low), #516 of 538 scored small-town markets.
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