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Grocery and convenience stores in Carbon County, UT
How Carbon 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 51 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #1,148 of 2,402 scored counties
#14 of 21 scored counties in Utah
- Listings
- 11
- 2 chain locations (18%)
- Official establishments
- 6
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $44M
- On groceries · $5,422 a household
- Spending per listing
- $4M
- 18% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 13.5
- 28% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 20,680
- +1.0% since 2020
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 11 grocery and convenience stores in Carbon County. 2 of them (18%) are chain locations, against 42% across the U.S. That is 13.5 per 10,000 households, 28% below the U.S. rate of 18.7.
Households in Carbon County spend about $44M a year on groceries, or $5,422 per household, 14% below the U.S. average. That is about $4M of household spending for each store on map listings, 18% above the U.S. figure of $3.4M.
In 2023, official counts showed 6 businesses with payroll in Carbon County classed as grocery and convenience stores. That is one for every 1,354 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S.
Population estimates show Carbon County grew 1.0% from 2020 to 2025, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). For grocery and convenience stores, Carbon County has a Groundwork market score of 51 (upper middle): #1,148 of 2,402 scored counties and #14 of 21 scored counties in Utah.
How Carbon 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 | Carbon County | Utah | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 13.5 | 16.4 | 18.7 |
| Spending per listing | $4M | $3.9M | $3.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 1,354 | 1,900 | 1,293 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +24.6% | +7.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +1.0% | +7.8% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $5,422 | $6,417 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $58,377 | $95,166 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 51 | 79 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 4 → 6
- Employees, 2023
- 192
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $5.5M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 112 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 13The 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 Carbon 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 Carbon County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 20,680+1.0% since 2020
- Households
- 8,123
- Median age
- 39.2
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 68%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 1,479 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 14
- Median household income
- $58,377+14.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $75,548
- Median home value
- $228,500
- Jobs located here
- 7,904
- Daytime population
- 17,852Residents 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 |
| 14Carbon County, UT | 51 | 11 | 13.5 | $4M | +1.0% | #1,148 of 2,402 |
Other business types in Carbon County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
- Grocery and convenience stores51
- Grocery stores34
- Convenience stores54
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 Carbon County, UT?
Carbon County has 11 grocery and convenience stores on map listings as of September 2026. 2 of them (18%) are chain locations. The listings count grocery, convenience and specialty food stores. Official counts show 6 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in 2023.
How much do households in Carbon County, UT spend on groceries?
About $44M a year, or $5,422 per household. That is 14% below the U.S. average (an index of 86, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 11 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $4M per store. It is estimated from the incomes of the 8,123 households in Carbon County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Carbon County, UT compare with the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores?
Carbon County has 13.5 grocery and convenience stores per 10,000 households, 28% below the U.S. rate of 18.7. Spending per store is $4M, 18% above the U.S. figure of $3.4M. At the national ratio of grocery and convenience stores to household spending, Carbon County would have about 13, against 11 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,354 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S.
How fast is Carbon County, UT growing?
Population estimates put Carbon County at 20,680 people in 2025, up 1.0% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 8,123 households. Median household income in Carbon County is $58,377, 28% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 14.1%, 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. Carbon County scores 51 for grocery and convenience stores (upper middle), #1,148 of 2,402 scored counties.
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