Groceries and convenience · Metro area · Utah
Grocery and convenience stores in the St. George, UT metro area
How the St. George, UT 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 80 out of 100: High
Ranked #21 of 387 scored metro areas
#3 of 5 scored metro areas based in Utah
- Listings
- 110
- 45 chain locations (41%)
- Official establishments
- 29
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $425.5M
- On groceries · $6,097 a household
- Spending per listing
- $3.9M
- 14% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 15.8
- 16% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 213,670
- +17.4% since 2020
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What this means
For grocery and convenience stores, the St. George metro area has a Groundwork market score of 80 (high): #21 of 387 scored metro areas and #3 of 5 scored metro areas based in Utah. That puts it in the top 10% of metro areas for grocery and convenience stores.
Household spending on groceries in the St. George metro area comes to about $425.5M a year: $6,097 per household, 4% below the U.S. average. That is about $3.9M of household spending for each store on map listings, 14% above the U.S. figure of $3.4M.
There are 110 grocery and convenience stores on map listings in the St. George metro area as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 41% of them, against 42% across the U.S. That comes to 15.8 for every 10,000 households, 16% below the U.S. rate of 18.7.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in the St. George metro area was 29 in 2023. That is one for every 2,406 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 2 SBA-backed loans worth $63K have gone to businesses classed as grocery and convenience stores in the St. George metro area. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the St. George metro area grew 17.4%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How the St. George metro area 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 | St. George metro area | Utah | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 15.8 | 16.4 | 18.7 |
| Spending per listing | $3.9M | $3.9M | $3.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 2,406 | 1,900 | 1,293 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +24.6% | +7.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +17.4% | +7.8% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $6,097 | $6,417 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $80,632 | $95,166 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 80 | 79 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 29
- Employees, 2023
- 1,324
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $42M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 49Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 11045 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 126The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 2
- Amount
- $63K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as grocery and convenience stores in the St. George 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 St. George metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 213,670+17.4% since 2020
- Households
- 69,786
- Median age
- 40.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 72%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 2,428 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 81
- Median household income
- $80,632+34.8% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $107,780
- Median home value
- $510,700
- Jobs located here
- 87,513
- Daytime population
- 200,923Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Utah market ranked →The highest-scoring metro areas in Utah for grocery and convenience stores, numbered among those based in Utah, with the St. George metro area marked.
Top metro areas in Utah
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT | 92 | 311 | 15.0 | $4.4M | +14.5% | #1 of 387 |
| 2Ogden, UT | 88 | 299 | 14.0 | $4.7M | +5.3% | #3 of 387 |
| 3St. George, UT | 80 | 110 | 15.8 | $3.9M | +17.4% | #21 of 387 |
| 4Salt Lake City-Murray, UT | 75 | 670 | 14.9 | $4.4M | +3.8% | #31 of 387 |
| 5Logan, UT-ID | 75 | 79 | 16.0 | $3.8M | +8.8% | #33 of 387 |
Other business types in the St. George metro area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
- Grocery and convenience stores80
- Grocery stores77
- Convenience stores82
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 St. George, UT metro area?
As of September 2026, map listings count 110 grocery and convenience stores in the St. George metro area. 45 of them (41%) are chain locations. The listings count grocery, convenience and specialty food stores. Official counts show 29 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in 2023. Official counts list 49 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in the St. George, UT metro area spend on groceries?
About $425.5M a year, or $6,097 per household. That is 4% below the U.S. average (an index of 96, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 110 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $3.9M per store. It is estimated from the incomes of the 69,786 households in the St. George metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the St. George, UT metro area compare with the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores?
The St. George metro area has 15.8 grocery and convenience stores per 10,000 households, 16% below the U.S. rate of 18.7. Spending per store is $3.9M, 14% above the U.S. figure of $3.4M. At the U.S. ratio of grocery and convenience stores to household spending, the St. George metro area would have about 126, against 110 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 2,406 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S.
How fast is the St. George, UT metro area growing?
Population estimates put the St. George metro area at 213,670 people in 2025, up 17.4% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 69,786 households. The median household income in the St. George metro area is $80,632 a year, in line with the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 34.8% 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. 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 St. George metro area scores 80 for grocery and convenience stores (high), #21 of 387 scored metro areas.
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