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Grocery and convenience stores in the Clarksville, TN-KY metro area

How the Clarksville, TN-KY 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 55 out of 100: Upper middle

Ranked #171 of 387 scored metro areas
#3 of 10 scored metro areas based in Tennessee

Listings
231
112 chain locations (48%)
Official establishments
69
+64.3% since 2019
Household spending a year
$727M
On groceries · $5,822 a household
Spending per listing
$3.1M
7% below the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
18.5
In line with the U.S.
Population, 2025
349,001
+8.5% since 2020

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Survey estimates 2020–2024 · population estimates 2025 · official business counts 2023 · map listings September 2026 · Data credits · How we measure

What this means

Map listings as of September 2026 show 231 grocery and convenience stores in the Clarksville metro area. Chain locations make up 48% of them, against 42% across the U.S. That comes to 18.5 for every 10,000 households, in line with the U.S. rate of 18.7.

Household spending on groceries in the Clarksville metro area comes to about $727M a year: $5,822 per household, 8% below the U.S. average. That is about $3.1M of household spending for each store on map listings, 7% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M.

The official count of businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in the Clarksville metro area was 69 in 2023, up 64.3% from 2019. That is one for every 1,810 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S. Another 63 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $614K has gone to businesses classed as grocery and convenience stores in the Clarksville metro area.

Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Clarksville metro area grew 8.5%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). The Groundwork market score for grocery and convenience stores in the Clarksville metro area is 55 (upper middle), #171 of 387 scored metro areas and #3 of 10 scored metro areas based in Tennessee.

How the Clarksville metro area compares

The same measures for Tennessee 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.

Grocery and convenience stores in Clarksville, TN-KY metro area compared with Tennessee and the U.S.
MeasureClarksville metro areaTennesseeU.S.
Listings per 10k households18.519.618.7
Spending per listing$3.1M$3M$3.4M
Households per official establishment1,8101,6121,293
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023+64.3%+23.6%+7.2%
Population growth, 2020–2025+8.5%+5.6%+3.1%
Spending per household on groceries$5,822$5,923$6,319
Median household income$68,967$69,595$80,734
Groundwork market score5547

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
69+64.3% over the period
Employees, 2023
2,264
Annual payroll, 2023
$64.1M
One-person businesses, 2023
63Businesses with no payroll
Map listings, September 2026
231112 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
215The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here

SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022

Loans
1
Amount
$614K

SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as grocery and convenience stores in the Clarksville 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 Clarksville metro area

Population, 2025 estimate
349,001+8.5% since 2020
Households
124,867
Median age
34.2
Homes lived in by their owners
61%
Vehicles per household
1.9
Land area
2,158 sq. mi.
People per square mile
155
Median household income
$68,967+30.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$85,173
Median home value
$253,300
Jobs located here
93,447
Daytime population
310,494Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Grocery and convenience stores across Tennessee

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The highest-scoring metro areas in Tennessee for grocery and convenience stores, numbered among those based in Tennessee, with the Clarksville metro area marked.

Top metro areas in Tennessee

Metro areas in Tennessee ranked for grocery and convenience stores by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin, TN661,51518.3$3.5M+8.7%#89 of 387
2Knoxville, TN6560416.0$3.7M+6.9%#94 of 387
3Clarksville, TN-KY5523118.5$3.1M+8.5%#171 of 387
4Morristown, TN528617.9$3.1M+7.9%#188 of 387
5Johnson City, TN5115917.9$3.1M+4.3%#195 of 387
6Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA4821216.2$3.4M+2.3%#210 of 387
7Cleveland, TN4312124.2$2.4M+6.1%#247 of 387
8Chattanooga, TN-GA3759025.5$2.3M+5.3%#291 of 387
9Memphis, TN-MS-AR3697518.6$3.1M−0.3%#292 of 387
10Jackson, TN2914419.9$2.8M+2.2%#326 of 387

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Questions

How many grocery and convenience stores are in the Clarksville, TN-KY metro area?

There are 231 grocery and convenience stores on map listings in the Clarksville metro area as of September 2026. 112 of them (48%) are chain locations. The listings count grocery, convenience and specialty food stores. Official counts show 69 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in 2023, up 64.3% from 2019. Official counts list 63 one-person businesses without payroll.

How much do households in the Clarksville, TN-KY metro area spend on groceries?

About $727M a year, or $5,822 per household. That is 8% below the U.S. average (an index of 92, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 231 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $3.1M per store. It is estimated from the incomes of the 124,867 households in the Clarksville metro area and national spending patterns by income.

How does the Clarksville, TN-KY metro area compare with the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores?

The Clarksville metro area has 18.5 grocery and convenience stores per 10,000 households, in line with the U.S. rate of 18.7. Spending per store is $3.1M, 7% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M. At the national ratio of grocery and convenience stores to household spending, the Clarksville metro area would have about 215, against 231 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,810 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S. The official count rose 64.3% from 2019 to 2023, against +7.2% for the U.S.

How fast is the Clarksville, TN-KY metro area growing?

Population estimates put the Clarksville metro area at 349,001 people in 2025, up 8.5% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 124,867 households. Median household income in the Clarksville metro area is $68,967, 15% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 30.1%, 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 Clarksville metro area scores 55 for grocery and convenience stores (upper middle), #171 of 387 scored metro areas.

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