Groceries and convenience · Small-town market · Tennessee
Grocery stores in the Cookeville, TN area
How the Cookeville, TN area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for grocery stores: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 46 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #307 of 506 scored small-town markets
#12 of 17 scored small-town markets based in Tennessee
- Listings
- 45
- 13 chain locations (29%)
- Official establishments
- 30
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $323.1M
- On groceries · $5,505 a household
- Spending per listing
- $7.2M
- 23% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 7.7
- 13% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 152,477
- +7.6% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 45 grocery stores in the Cookeville area. Chain locations make up 29% of them, against 37% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 7.7, 13% above the U.S. rate of 6.8.
Households in the Cookeville area spend about $323.1M a year on groceries, or $5,505 per household, 13% below the U.S. average. That is about $7.2M of household spending for each store on map listings, 23% below the U.S. figure of $9.3M. That spending covers all groceries, which grocery stores share with other businesses in the trade.
Official counts show 30 businesses with payroll classed as supermarkets and grocery stores in the Cookeville area in 2023. That is one for every 1,956 households, against one for every 2,053 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $210K has gone to businesses classed as supermarkets and grocery stores in the Cookeville area.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Cookeville area grew 7.6%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). For grocery stores, the Cookeville area has a Groundwork market score of 46 (lower middle): #307 of 506 scored small-town markets and #12 of 17 scored small-town markets based in Tennessee.
How the Cookeville area compares
The same measures for Tennessee 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 | Cookeville area | Tennessee | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 7.7 | 7.1 | 6.8 |
| Spending per listing | $7.2M | $8.4M | $9.3M |
| Households per official establishment | 1,956 | 2,622 | 2,053 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +11.3% | 0.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +7.6% | +5.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $5,505 | $5,923 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $55,380 | $69,595 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 46 | 50 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 30
- Employees, 2023
- 896
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $22.6M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 4513 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 35The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $210K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as supermarkets and grocery stores in the Cookeville 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 Cookeville area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 152,477+7.6% since 2020
- Households
- 58,693
- Median age
- 40.6
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 68%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 1,520 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 96
- Median household income
- $55,380
- Average household income
- $75,930
- Median home value
- $237,000
- Jobs located here
- 55,382
- Daytime population
- 142,620Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Tennessee market ranked →The highest-scoring small-town markets in Tennessee for grocery stores, numbered among those based in Tennessee, with the Cookeville area marked.
Top small-town markets in Tennessee
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Crossville, TN | 78 | 13 | 4.6 | $12M | +8.0% | #33 of 506 |
| 2Lewisburg, TN | 77 | 9 | 6.6 | $9M | +10.5% | #38 of 506 |
| 3Fayetteville, TN | 62 | 10 | 6.7 | $8.5M | +4.3% | #133 of 506 |
| 4Shelbyville, TN | 58 | 20 | 10.3 | $5.7M | +9.7% | #179 of 506 |
| 5Athens, TN | 53 | 22 | 8.3 | $6.8M | +8.2% | #246 of 506 |
| 6Paris, TN | 52 | 10 | 7.4 | $7.2M | +2.3% | #252 of 506 |
| 7Winchester, TN | 52 | 16 | 9.2 | $6.2M | +6.4% | #254 of 506 |
| 8McMinnville, TN | 51 | 15 | 9.3 | $5.9M | +6.5% | #266 of 506 |
| 9Greeneville, TN | 48 | 19 | 6.7 | $8.2M | +5.0% | #285 of 506 |
| 10Lawrenceburg, TN | 47 | 14 | 8.2 | $6.6M | +6.2% | #299 of 506 |
| 12Cookeville, TN | 46 | 45 | 7.7 | $7.2M | +7.6% | #307 of 506 |
Other business types in the Cookeville area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
- Grocery and convenience stores49
- Grocery stores46
- Convenience stores58
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Questions
How many grocery stores are in the Cookeville, TN area?
There are 45 grocery stores on map listings in the Cookeville area as of September 2026. 13 of them (29%) are chain locations. The listings count grocery stores and supermarkets. Official counts show 30 businesses with payroll classed as supermarkets and grocery stores in 2023.
How much do households in the Cookeville, TN area spend on groceries?
About $323.1M a year, or $5,505 per household. That is 13% below the U.S. average (an index of 87, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 45 grocery stores on map listings, it comes to $7.2M per store. The spending figure covers all groceries, not only grocery stores. It is estimated from the incomes of the 58,693 households in the Cookeville area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Cookeville, TN area compare with the U.S. for grocery stores?
The Cookeville area has 7.7 grocery stores per 10,000 households, 13% above the U.S. rate of 6.8. Spending per store is $7.2M, 23% below the U.S. figure of $9.3M. At the national ratio of grocery stores to household spending, the Cookeville area would have about 35, against 45 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,956 households, against one for every 2,053 across the U.S.
How fast is the Cookeville, TN area growing?
Population estimates put the Cookeville area at 152,477 people in 2025, up 7.6% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 58,693 households. Median household income in the Cookeville area is $55,380, 31% 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. A small-town market is a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people and the county or counties tied to it by commuting. 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 Cookeville area scores 46 for grocery stores (lower middle), #307 of 506 scored small-town markets.
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