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Pizza places in Pickens County, AL
How Pickens County, AL compares with other counties and the U.S. for pizza places: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 2.
- Listings
- 2
- 1 chain location (50%)
- Official establishments
- 6
- All limited-service restaurants
- Household spending a year
- $20.8M
- On food away from home · $3,070 a household
- Spending per listing
- $10.4M
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 3.0
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 18,221
- −3.9% since 2020
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 2 pizza places in Pickens County. That is 3.0 per 10,000 households.
Household spending on food away from home in Pickens County comes to about $20.8M a year: $3,070 per household, 25% below the U.S. average. Spread across 2 pizza places, that is $10.4M per pizza place. That spending covers all food away from home, which pizza places share with other businesses in the trade.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in Pickens County was 6 in 2023. That is one for every 1,127 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S. The official count takes in all limited-service restaurants, not only pizza places: fast food and sandwich shops are counted too. Official counts also show 6 one-person businesses without payroll.
Population estimates show Pickens County declined 3.9% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S. With 2 pizza places on map listings, Pickens County isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How Pickens County compares
The same measures for Alabama and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all food away from home by the pizza places 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 | Pickens County | Alabama | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 3.0 | 5.7 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $10.4M | $6.1M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 1,127 | 450 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +8.8% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −3.9% | +3.2% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,070 | $3,519 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $46,274 | $63,999 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 48 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 6 → 6All limited-service restaurants
- Employees, 2023
- 128
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $1.9M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 6All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 21 chain location
- 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 limited-service restaurants in Pickens 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. These official figures cover all limited-service restaurants, not only pizza places.
Population and households in Pickens County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 18,221−3.9% since 2020
- Households
- 6,764
- Median age
- 42.3
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 76%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 881 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 21
- Median household income
- $46,274+16.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $68,757
- Median home value
- $123,900
- Jobs located here
- 3,396
- Daytime population
- 14,114Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Alabama
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Limestone County, AL | 89 | 19 | 4.6 | $8.7M | +18.0% | #15 of 2,090 |
| 2Blount County, AL | 73 | 7 | 3.2 | $10.8M | +1.8% | #208 of 2,090 |
| 3Autauga County, AL | 73 | 9 | 3.9 | $9.6M | +5.1% | #209 of 2,090 |
| 4Chilton County, AL | 72 | 7 | 3.9 | $8.6M | +5.9% | #236 of 2,090 |
| 5Shelby County, AL | 68 | 62 | 7.1 | $6.2M | +6.5% | #367 of 2,090 |
| 6Madison County, AL | 68 | 111 | 6.7 | $6.2M | +11.0% | #369 of 2,090 |
| 7Elmore County, AL | 67 | 18 | 5.5 | $6.8M | +4.2% | #390 of 2,090 |
| 8St. Clair County, AL | 67 | 23 | 6.6 | $5.6M | +7.1% | #406 of 2,090 |
| 9Dale County, AL | 66 | 6 | 3.0 | $10.4M | +1.3% | #430 of 2,090 |
| 10Coffee County, AL | 63 | 10 | 4.8 | $7.5M | +6.3% | #530 of 2,090 |
| Pickens County, AL | Not scored | 2 | 3.0 | $10.4M | −3.9% |
Other business types in Pickens County
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Questions
How many pizza places are in Pickens County, AL?
Pickens County has 2 pizza places on map listings as of September 2026. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 6 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in 2023. That count covers all limited-service restaurants (fast food and sandwich shops included), not only pizza places. Another 6 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.
How much do households in Pickens County, AL spend on food away from home?
About $20.8M a year, or $3,070 per household. That is 25% below the U.S. average (an index of 75, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 2 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $10.4M per pizza place. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places. It is estimated from the incomes of the 6,764 households in Pickens County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Pickens County, AL compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
Pickens County has 2 pizza places on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the national ratio of pizza places to household spending, Pickens County would have about 4, against 2 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,127 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S.
How fast is Pickens County, AL growing?
Population estimates put Pickens County at 18,221 people in 2025, down 3.9% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 6,764 households. The median household income in Pickens County is $46,274 a year, 43% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 16.1% 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. Pickens County has no market score for pizza places: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 2.
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