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Pizza places in Anchorage Municipality, AK
How Anchorage Municipality, AK compares with other counties and the U.S. for pizza places: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 58 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #709 of 2,090 scored counties
#5 of 6 scored counties in Alaska
- Listings
- 85
- 55 chain locations (65%)
- Official establishments
- 223
- All limited-service restaurants · +0.5% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $498.7M
- On food away from home · $4,592 a household
- Spending per listing
- $5.9M
- 15% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 7.8
- 2% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 287,155
- −1.3% since 2020
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What this means
Households in Anchorage Municipality spend about $498.7M a year on food away from home, or $4,592 per household, 13% above the U.S. average. That is about $5.9M of household spending for each pizza place on map listings, 15% above the U.S. figure of $5.1M. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places.
There are 85 pizza places on map listings in Anchorage Municipality as of September 2026. 55 of them (65%) are chain locations, against 58% across the U.S. That comes to 7.8 for every 10,000 households, 2% below the U.S. rate of 8.0.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in Anchorage Municipality was 223 in 2023, up 0.5% from 2019. That is one for every 487 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S. That count covers all limited-service restaurants (fast food and sandwich shops included), not only pizza places. Official counts also show 41 one-person businesses without payroll. Since fiscal 2022, 7 SBA-backed loans worth $3.2M have gone to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in Anchorage Municipality.
Population estimates put the population change in Anchorage Municipality from 2020 to 2025 at −1.3%, against +3.1% for the U.S. For pizza places, Anchorage Municipality has a Groundwork market score of 58 (upper middle): #709 of 2,090 scored counties and #5 of 6 scored counties in Alaska.
How Anchorage Municipality compares
The same measures for Alaska 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 | Anchorage Municipality | Alaska | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 7.8 | 7.5 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $5.9M | $5.8M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 487 | 552 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +0.5% | +8.4% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −1.3% | +0.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $4,592 | $4,320 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $103,284 | $92,788 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 58 | 64 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 222 → 223All limited-service restaurants · +0.5% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 3,668
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $99.6M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 41All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 8555 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 98The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 7
- Amount
- $3.2M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in Anchorage Municipality, 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 Anchorage Municipality
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 287,155−1.3% since 2020
- Households
- 108,597
- Median age
- 36.3
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 64%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.8
- Land area
- 1,707 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 169
- Median household income
- $103,284+21.6% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $132,200
- Median home value
- $395,900
- Jobs located here
- n/a
- Daytime population
- n/aResidents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Alaska
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK | 88 | 25 | 6.3 | $6.8M | +10.4% | #20 of 2,090 |
| 2Juneau City and Borough, AK | 62 | 9 | 6.8 | $6.6M | −1.8% | #573 of 2,090 |
| 3Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK | 62 | 17 | 7.0 | $5.7M | +5.1% | #579 of 2,090 |
| 4Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK | 59 | 32 | 8.8 | $4.8M | −1.4% | #686 of 2,090 |
| 5Anchorage Municipality, AK | 58 | 85 | 7.8 | $5.9M | −1.3% | #709 of 2,090 |
| 6Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK | 37 | 6 | 10.5 | $4M | −2.6% | #1,552 of 2,090 |
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Questions
How many pizza places are in Anchorage Municipality, AK?
As of September 2026, map listings count 85 pizza places in Anchorage Municipality. 55 of them (65%) are chain locations. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 223 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in 2023, up 0.5% from 2019. The official count takes in all limited-service restaurants, not only pizza places: fast food and sandwich shops are counted too. Another 41 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.
How much do households in Anchorage Municipality, AK spend on food away from home?
About $498.7M a year, or $4,592 per household. That is 13% above the U.S. average (an index of 113, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 85 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $5.9M per pizza place. That spending covers all food away from home, which pizza places share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 108,597 households in Anchorage Municipality and national spending patterns by income.
How does Anchorage Municipality, AK compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
Anchorage Municipality has 7.8 pizza places per 10,000 households, 2% below the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $5.9M, 15% above the U.S. figure of $5.1M. At the U.S. ratio of pizza places to household spending, Anchorage Municipality would have about 98, against 85 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 487 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S. The official count rose 0.5% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.1% for the U.S.
How fast is Anchorage Municipality, AK growing?
Population estimates put Anchorage Municipality at 287,155 people in 2025, down 1.3% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 108,597 households. Median household income in Anchorage Municipality is $103,284, 28% above the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 21.6%, 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. Anchorage Municipality scores 58 for pizza places (upper middle), #709 of 2,090 scored counties.
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