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Grocery and convenience stores in Emporia city, VA
The grocery and convenience stores in Emporia city, VA, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other counties.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
- Listings
- 20
- 6 chain locations (30%)
- Official establishments
- 7
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $11.7M
- On groceries · $5,436 a household
- Spending per listing
- $586K
- 83% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 92.7
- 5 times the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 5,447
- −4.4% since 2020
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What this means
Households in Emporia city spend about $11.7M a year on groceries, or $5,436 per household, 14% below the U.S. average. That is about $586K of household spending for each store on map listings, 83% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M.
Emporia city has 20 grocery and convenience stores on map listings as of September 2026. Of those, 6 are chain locations, or 30%, against 42% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 92.7, 5 times the U.S. rate of 18.7.
Official counts show 7 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in Emporia city in 2023. That is one for every 308 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Emporia city declined 4.4%, against +3.1% for the U.S. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t given a market score, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
How Emporia city compares
The same measures for Virginia 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 | Emporia city | Virginia | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 92.7 | 19.1 | 18.7 |
| Spending per listing | $586K | $3.4M | $3.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 308 | 1,152 | 1,293 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +7.3% | +7.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −4.4% | +2.8% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $5,436 | $6,537 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $51,899 | $93,170 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 51 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 4 → 7
- Employees, 2023
- 109
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $2.5M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 206 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 4The 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 Emporia city, 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 Emporia city
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 5,447−4.4% since 2020
- Households
- 2,157
- Median age
- 37.9
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 38%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 7 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 837
- Median household income
- $51,899
- Average household income
- $71,067
- Median home value
- $148,500
- Jobs located here
- 4,395
- Daytime population
- 7,108Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Virginia
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Powhatan County, VA | 95 | 13 | 11.5 | $6M | +7.0% | #11 of 2,402 |
| 2King George County, VA | 94 | 15 | 14.8 | $4.7M | +10.5% | #20 of 2,402 |
| 3Fluvanna County, VA | 93 | 10 | 9.7 | $6.7M | +6.2% | #21 of 2,402 |
| 4Orange County, VA | 87 | 20 | 13.5 | $4.8M | +10.1% | #76 of 2,402 |
| 5Stafford County, VA | 87 | 89 | 17.0 | $4.4M | +8.3% | #80 of 2,402 |
| 6Loudoun County, VA | 85 | 217 | 15.2 | $5.3M | +6.4% | #98 of 2,402 |
| 7Goochland County, VA | 84 | 15 | 14.5 | $4.9M | +17.4% | #112 of 2,402 |
| 8James City County, VA | 83 | 51 | 15.9 | $4.3M | +6.2% | #129 of 2,402 |
| 9York County, VA | 82 | 35 | 13.0 | $5.3M | +1.6% | #143 of 2,402 |
| 10Louisa County, VA | 81 | 27 | 17.4 | $3.6M | +13.6% | #171 of 2,402 |
| Emporia city, VA | Not scored | 20 | 92.7 | $586K | −4.4% |
Other business types in Emporia city
None has a Groundwork market score here. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
Food and drink
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Questions
How many grocery and convenience stores are in Emporia city, VA?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 20 grocery and convenience stores in Emporia city. 6 of them (30%) are chain locations. The listings count grocery, convenience and specialty food stores. Official counts show 7 businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in 2023.
How much do households in Emporia city, VA spend on groceries?
About $11.7M a year, or $5,436 per household. That is 14% below the U.S. average (an index of 86, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 20 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $586K per store. It is estimated from the incomes of the 2,157 households in Emporia city and national spending patterns by income.
How does Emporia city, VA compare with the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores?
Emporia city has 92.7 grocery and convenience stores per 10,000 households, 5 times the U.S. rate of 18.7. Spending per store is $586K, 83% below the U.S. figure of $3.4M. At the U.S. ratio of grocery and convenience stores to household spending, Emporia city would have about 4, against 20 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 308 households, against one for every 1,293 across the U.S.
How fast is Emporia city, VA growing?
Population estimates put Emporia city at 5,447 people in 2025, down 4.4% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 2,157 households. The median household income in Emporia city is $51,899 a year, 36% below the U.S. median of $80,734.
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 score leaves out counties under 10,000 people, where a handful of businesses would swing it.
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