Groceries and convenience · Small-town market · Pennsylvania
Grocery and convenience stores in the Meadville, PA area
How the Meadville, PA 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 53 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #255 of 538 scored small-town markets
#16 of 20 scored small-town markets based in Pennsylvania
- Listings
- 73
- 28 chain locations (38%)
- Official establishments
- 24
- +4.4% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $206.1M
- On groceries · $6,092 a household
- Spending per listing
- $2.8M
- 17% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 21.6
- 16% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 81,792
- −2.4% since 2020
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What this means
Household spending on groceries in the Meadville area comes to about $206.1M a year: $6,092 per household, 4% below the U.S. average. That works out to $2.8M per store, 17% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M.
There are 73 grocery and convenience stores on map listings in the Meadville area as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 38% of them, against 42% across the U.S. That is 21.6 per 10,000 households, 16% above the U.S. rate of 18.7.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in the Meadville area was 24 in 2023, up 4.4% from 2019. That is one for every 1,410 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S. Another 20 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $350K has gone to businesses classed as grocery and convenience stores in the Meadville area.
Population estimates put the population change in the Meadville area from 2020 to 2025 at −2.4%, against +3.1% for the U.S. The Groundwork market score for grocery and convenience stores in the Meadville area is 53 (upper middle), #255 of 538 scored small-town markets and #16 of 20 scored small-town markets based in Pennsylvania.
How the Meadville area compares
The same measures for Pennsylvania 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 | Meadville area | Pennsylvania | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 21.6 | 19.0 | 18.7 |
| Spending per listing | $2.8M | $3.6M | $3.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 1,410 | 1,300 | 1,293 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +4.4% | +7.0% | +7.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −2.4% | +0.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $6,092 | $6,738 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $60,476 | $77,971 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 53 | 52 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 24+4.4% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 502
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $11.1M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 20Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 7328 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 61The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $350K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as grocery and convenience stores in the Meadville 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 Meadville area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 81,792−2.4% since 2020
- Households
- 33,838
- Median age
- 44.4
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 75%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.7
- Land area
- 1,012 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 82
- Median household income
- $60,476+20.2% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $78,870
- Median home value
- $153,200
- Jobs located here
- 28,045
- Daytime population
- 77,378Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top small-town markets in Pennsylvania
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Hemlock Farms, PA | 85 | 48 | 19.8 | $3.4M | +7.2% | #7 of 538 |
| 2East Stroudsburg, PA | 72 | 113 | 18.5 | $3.7M | −0.7% | #54 of 538 |
| 3Lock Haven, PA | 71 | 25 | 16.2 | $3.8M | +1.3% | #64 of 538 |
| 4Hermitage, PA | 68 | 89 | 19.1 | $3.2M | −2.4% | #100 of 538 |
| 5Bloomsburg-Berwick, PA | 67 | 61 | 23.1 | $2.7M | +2.3% | #112 of 538 |
| 6Huntingdon, PA | 66 | 34 | 20.8 | $3M | −2.4% | #117 of 538 |
| 7Indiana, PA | 66 | 66 | 20.3 | $3M | −0.3% | #118 of 538 |
| 8Warren, PA | 65 | 34 | 21.1 | $2.9M | −3.8% | #125 of 538 |
| 9DuBois, PA | 64 | 55 | 16.9 | $3.6M | −2.9% | #127 of 538 |
| 10Somerset, PA | 61 | 59 | 20.1 | $3.1M | −2.7% | #166 of 538 |
| 16Meadville, PA | 53 | 73 | 21.6 | $2.8M | −2.4% | #255 of 538 |
Other business types in the Meadville area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
- Grocery and convenience stores53
- Grocery stores47
- Convenience stores65
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 Meadville, PA area?
As of September 2026, map listings count 73 grocery and convenience stores in the Meadville area. 28 of them (38%) are chain locations. The listings count grocery, convenience and specialty food stores. Official counts show 24 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in 2023, up 4.4% from 2019. Official counts list 20 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in the Meadville, PA area spend on groceries?
About $206.1M a year, or $6,092 per household. That is 4% below the U.S. average (an index of 96, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 73 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $2.8M per store. It is estimated from the incomes of the 33,838 households in the Meadville area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Meadville, PA area compare with the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores?
The Meadville area has 21.6 grocery and convenience stores per 10,000 households, 16% above the U.S. rate of 18.7. Spending per store is $2.8M, 17% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M. At the U.S. ratio of grocery and convenience stores to household spending, the Meadville area would have about 61, against 73 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,410 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S. The official count rose 4.4% from 2019 to 2023, against +7.2% for the U.S.
How fast is the Meadville, PA area growing?
Population estimates put the Meadville area at 81,792 people in 2025, down 2.4% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 33,838 households. The median household income in the Meadville area is $60,476 a year, 25% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 20.2% 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. 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 Meadville area scores 53 for grocery and convenience stores (upper middle), #255 of 538 scored small-town markets.
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