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Grocery and convenience stores in Cache County, UT
How Cache 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 83 out of 100: High
Ranked #131 of 2,402 scored counties
#5 of 21 scored counties in Utah
- Listings
- 65
- 36 chain locations (55%)
- Official establishments
- 20
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $270.5M
- On groceries · $6,088 a household
- Spending per listing
- $4.2M
- 23% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 14.6
- 22% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 145,000
- +8.5% since 2020
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What this means
Cache County scores 83 (high) on the Groundwork market score for grocery and convenience stores, ranking #131 of 2,402 scored counties and #5 of 21 scored counties in Utah. That puts it in the top 10% of counties for grocery and convenience stores.
Map listings as of September 2026 show 65 grocery and convenience stores in Cache County. Chain locations make up 55% of them, against 42% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 14.6, 22% below the U.S. rate of 18.7.
At $6,088 per household (4% below the U.S. average), households in Cache County spend about $270.5M a year on groceries. Spread across 65 grocery and convenience stores, that is $4.2M per store, 23% above the U.S. figure of $3.4M.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in Cache County was 20 in 2023. That is one for every 2,222 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 5 SBA-backed loans worth $10M have gone to businesses classed as grocery and convenience stores in Cache County. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Cache County grew 8.5%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How Cache 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 | Cache County | Utah | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 14.6 | 16.4 | 18.7 |
| Spending per listing | $4.2M | $3.9M | $3.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 2,222 | 1,900 | 1,293 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +24.6% | +7.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +8.5% | +7.8% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $6,088 | $6,417 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $81,665 | $95,166 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 83 | 79 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 18 → 20
- Employees, 2023
- 1,154
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $25.3M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 25Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 6536 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 80The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 5
- Amount
- $10M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as grocery and convenience stores in Cache 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 Cache County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 145,000+8.5% since 2020
- Households
- 44,439
- Median age
- 29.6
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 64%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.3
- Land area
- 1,165 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 120
- Median household income
- $81,665+38.3% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $105,827
- Median home value
- $444,400
- Jobs located here
- 60,576
- Daytime population
- 130,767Residents 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 Cache County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
- Grocery and convenience stores83
- Grocery stores80
- Convenience stores86
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 Cache County, UT?
There are 65 grocery and convenience stores on map listings in Cache County as of September 2026. 36 of them (55%) are chain locations. The listings count grocery, convenience and specialty food stores. Official counts show 20 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in 2023. Another 25 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.
How much do households in Cache County, UT spend on groceries?
About $270.5M a year, or $6,088 per household. That is 4% below the U.S. average (an index of 96, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 65 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $4.2M per store. It is estimated from the incomes of the 44,439 households in Cache County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Cache County, UT compare with the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores?
Cache County has 14.6 grocery and convenience stores per 10,000 households, 22% below the U.S. rate of 18.7. Spending per store is $4.2M, 23% above the U.S. figure of $3.4M. At the national ratio of grocery and convenience stores to household spending, Cache County would have about 80, against 65 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 2,222 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S.
How fast is Cache County, UT growing?
Population estimates put Cache County at 145,000 people in 2025, up 8.5% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 44,439 households. Median household income in Cache County is $81,665, in line with the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 38.3%, 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. Cache County scores 83 for grocery and convenience stores (high), #131 of 2,402 scored counties.
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