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Grocery and convenience stores in Box Elder County, UT
How Box Elder County, UT 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 78 out of 100: High
Ranked #231 of 2,402 scored counties
#7 of 21 scored counties in Utah
- Listings
- 38
- 17 chain locations (45%)
- Official establishments
- 8
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $119.2M
- On groceries · $6,094 a household
- Spending per listing
- $3.1M
- 7% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 19.4
- 4% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 65,320
- +12.7% since 2020
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What this means
For grocery and convenience stores, Box Elder County has a Groundwork market score of 78 (high): #231 of 2,402 scored counties and #7 of 21 scored counties in Utah. That puts it in the top 10% of counties for grocery and convenience stores.
As of September 2026, map listings count 38 grocery and convenience stores in Box Elder County. Of those, 17 are chain locations, or 45%, against 42% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 19.4, 4% above the U.S. rate of 18.7.
Households in Box Elder County spend about $119.2M a year on groceries, or $6,094 per household, 4% 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.
In 2023, official counts showed 8 businesses with payroll in Box Elder County classed as grocery and convenience stores. That is one for every 2,445 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S. Population estimates put the population change in Box Elder County from 2020 to 2025 at +12.7%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How Box Elder County compares
The same measures for Utah 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 | Box Elder County | Utah | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 19.4 | 16.4 | 18.7 |
| Spending per listing | $3.1M | $3.9M | $3.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 2,445 | 1,900 | 1,293 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +24.6% | +7.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +12.7% | +7.8% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $6,094 | $6,417 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $84,550 | $95,166 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 78 | 79 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 6 → 8
- Employees, 2023
- 501
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $12.5M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 6Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 3817 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 35The 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 Box Elder 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 Box Elder County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 65,320+12.7% since 2020
- Households
- 19,557
- Median age
- 33.4
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 76%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.5
- Land area
- 5,781 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 11
- Median household income
- $84,550+35.9% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $99,908
- Median home value
- $403,600
- Jobs located here
- 21,980
- Daytime population
- 51,189Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Utah
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Davis County, UT | 93 | 138 | 11.9 | $5.6M | +4.8% | #24 of 2,402 |
| 2Utah County, UT | 93 | 293 | 14.4 | $4.5M | +14.5% | #27 of 2,402 |
| 3Tooele County, UT | 91 | 37 | 15.5 | $4.3M | +19.2% | #44 of 2,402 |
| 4Washington County, UT | 84 | 110 | 15.8 | $3.9M | +17.4% | #116 of 2,402 |
| 5Cache County, UT | 83 | 65 | 14.6 | $4.2M | +8.5% | #131 of 2,402 |
| 6Wasatch County, UT | 81 | 20 | 15.5 | $4.5M | +9.9% | #162 of 2,402 |
| 7Box Elder County, UT | 78 | 38 | 19.4 | $3.1M | +12.7% | #231 of 2,402 |
| 8Morgan County, UT | 78 | 9 | 23.8 | $3M | +8.1% | #233 of 2,402 |
| 9Weber County, UT | 77 | 152 | 16.1 | $3.9M | +5.8% | #246 of 2,402 |
| 10Salt Lake County, UT | 76 | 633 | 14.9 | $4.4M | +2.9% | #264 of 2,402 |
Other business types in Box Elder County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
- Grocery and convenience stores78
- Grocery stores89
- Convenience stores74
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 Box Elder County, UT?
Box Elder County has 38 grocery and convenience stores on map listings as of September 2026. 17 of them (45%) are chain locations. The listings count grocery, convenience and specialty food stores. Official counts show 8 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in 2023. Official counts also show 6 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Box Elder County, UT spend on groceries?
About $119.2M a year, or $6,094 per household. That is 4% below the U.S. average (an index of 96, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 38 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $3.1M per store. It is estimated from the incomes of the 19,557 households in Box Elder County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Box Elder County, UT compare with the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores?
Box Elder County has 19.4 grocery and convenience stores per 10,000 households, 4% above 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, Box Elder County would have about 35, against 38 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 2,445 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S.
How fast is Box Elder County, UT growing?
Population estimates put Box Elder County at 65,320 people in 2025, up 12.7% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 19,557 households. Median household income in Box Elder County is $84,550, 5% above the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 35.9%, 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. Box Elder County scores 78 for grocery and convenience stores (high), #231 of 2,402 scored counties.
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