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Grocery stores in Bracken County, KY
How Bracken County, KY compares with other counties and the U.S. for grocery stores: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
- Listings
- 7
- 1 chain location (14%)
- Official establishments
- 3
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $19.6M
- On groceries · $5,841 a household
- Spending per listing
- $2.8M
- 70% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 20.8
- 3.1 times the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 8,511
- +1.3% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 7 grocery stores in Bracken County. One of them (14%) is a chain location, against 37% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 20.8, 3.1 times the U.S. rate of 6.8.
At $5,841 per household (8% below the U.S. average), households in Bracken County spend about $19.6M a year on groceries. That works out to $2.8M per store, 70% below the U.S. figure of $9.3M. That spending covers all groceries, which grocery stores share with other businesses in the trade.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as supermarkets and grocery stores in Bracken County was 3 in 2023. That is one for every 1,121 households, against one for every 2,053 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 2 SBA-backed loans worth $669K have gone to businesses classed as supermarkets and grocery stores in Bracken County.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Bracken County grew 1.3%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). Counties under 10,000 people aren’t given a market score, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
How Bracken County compares
The same measures for Kentucky and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all groceries by the grocery 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 | Bracken County | Kentucky | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 20.8 | 7.6 | 6.8 |
| Spending per listing | $2.8M | $7.5M | $9.3M |
| Households per official establishment | 1,121 | 2,517 | 2,053 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +0.7% | 0.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +1.3% | +2.2% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $5,841 | $5,746 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $66,319 | $63,726 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 31 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 3
- Employees, 2023
- 54
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $775K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 71 chain location
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 2The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 2
- Amount
- $669K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as supermarkets and grocery stores in Bracken 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 Bracken County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 8,511+1.3% since 2020
- Households
- 3,364
- Median age
- 41.5
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 79%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.3
- Land area
- 203 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 42
- Median household income
- $66,319
- Average household income
- $85,986
- Median home value
- $125,000
- Jobs located here
- 1,381
- Daytime population
- 7,258Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Kentucky
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Oldham County, KY | 94 | 7 | 3.0 | $23.3M | +4.9% | #20 of 2,070 |
| 2Scott County, KY | 92 | 6 | 2.6 | $23.8M | +8.2% | #32 of 2,070 |
| 3Madison County, KY | 86 | 5 | 1.3 | $42.6M | +9.4% | #89 of 2,070 |
| 4Jessamine County, KY | 80 | 11 | 5.5 | $10.9M | +7.8% | #202 of 2,070 |
| 5Campbell County, KY | 79 | 11 | 2.8 | $22M | +2.5% | #206 of 2,070 |
| 6Shelby County, KY | 78 | 10 | 5.4 | $11.4M | +6.2% | #235 of 2,070 |
| 7Bullitt County, KY | 77 | 20 | 6.3 | $9.8M | +5.0% | #260 of 2,070 |
| 8Woodford County, KY | 76 | 5 | 4.6 | $13.5M | +3.7% | #266 of 2,070 |
| 9Kenton County, KY | 74 | 41 | 6.1 | $10.2M | +3.9% | #330 of 2,070 |
| 10Nelson County, KY | 71 | 12 | 6.3 | $9.3M | +4.8% | #394 of 2,070 |
| Bracken County, KY | Not scored | 7 | 20.8 | $2.8M | +1.3% |
Other business types in Bracken County
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
Groceries and convenience
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Questions
How many grocery stores are in Bracken County, KY?
There are 7 grocery stores on map listings in Bracken County as of September 2026. One of them (14%) is a chain location. The listings count grocery stores and supermarkets. Official counts show 3 businesses with payroll classed as supermarkets and grocery stores in 2023.
How much do households in Bracken County, KY spend on groceries?
About $19.6M a year, or $5,841 per household. That is 8% below the U.S. average (an index of 92, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 7 grocery stores on map listings, it comes to $2.8M per store. The spending figure covers all groceries, not only grocery stores. It is estimated from the incomes of the 3,364 households in Bracken County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Bracken County, KY compare with the U.S. for grocery stores?
Bracken County has 20.8 grocery stores per 10,000 households, 3.1 times the U.S. rate of 6.8. Spending per store is $2.8M, 70% below the U.S. figure of $9.3M. At the national ratio of grocery stores to household spending, Bracken County would have about 2, against 7 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,121 households, against one for every 2,053 across the U.S.
How fast is Bracken County, KY growing?
Population estimates put Bracken County at 8,511 people in 2025, up 1.3% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 3,364 households. Median household income in Bracken County is $66,319, 18% 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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