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Pizza places in Santa Cruz County, AZ
How Santa Cruz County, AZ 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 54 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #864 of 2,090 scored counties
#9 of 14 scored counties in Arizona
- Listings
- 12
- 5 chain locations (42%)
- Official establishments
- 28
- All limited-service restaurants
- Household spending a year
- $54M
- On food away from home · $3,182 a household
- Spending per listing
- $4.5M
- 11% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 7.1
- 11% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 50,020
- +4.8% since 2020
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 12 pizza places in Santa Cruz County. 5 of them (42%) are chain locations, against 58% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 7.1, 11% below the U.S. rate of 8.0.
Household spending on food away from home in Santa Cruz County comes to about $54M a year: $3,182 per household, 22% below the U.S. average. That works out to $4.5M per pizza place, 11% below the U.S. figure of $5.1M. That spending covers all food away from home, which pizza places share with other businesses in the trade.
Official counts show 28 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in Santa Cruz County in 2023. That is one for every 606 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. Another 16 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Santa Cruz County grew 4.8%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). The Groundwork market score for pizza places in Santa Cruz County is 54 (upper middle), #864 of 2,090 scored counties and #9 of 14 scored counties in Arizona.
How Santa Cruz County compares
The same measures for Arizona 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 | Santa Cruz County | Arizona | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 7.1 | 6.3 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $4.5M | $6.3M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 606 | 500 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +13.8% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +4.8% | +6.1% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,182 | $3,982 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $55,217 | $79,964 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 54 | 70 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 18 → 28All limited-service restaurants
- Employees, 2023
- 471
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $9.1M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 16All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 125 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 11The 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 Santa Cruz 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 Santa Cruz County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 50,020+4.8% since 2020
- Households
- 16,966
- Median age
- 38.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 69%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 1,236 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 40
- Median household income
- $55,217+33.8% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $71,913
- Median home value
- $233,000
- Jobs located here
- 12,313
- Daytime population
- 42,829Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Arizona market ranked →The highest-scoring counties in Arizona for pizza places, numbered among those based in Arizona, with Santa Cruz County marked.
Top counties in Arizona
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Pinal County, AZ | 91 | 66 | 4.1 | $9.5M | +25.4% | #6 of 2,090 |
| 2Yavapai County, AZ | 77 | 64 | 5.8 | $6.3M | +6.5% | #139 of 2,090 |
| 3Yuma County, AZ | 72 | 32 | 4.0 | $8.3M | +9.2% | #238 of 2,090 |
| 4Mohave County, AZ | 71 | 52 | 5.1 | $6.5M | +6.5% | #269 of 2,090 |
| 5Pima County, AZ | 68 | 232 | 5.3 | $7M | +2.8% | #362 of 2,090 |
| 6Maricopa County, AZ | 67 | 1,193 | 6.9 | $6.1M | +5.5% | #396 of 2,090 |
| 7Graham County, AZ | 63 | 7 | 5.5 | $6.3M | +4.0% | #537 of 2,090 |
| 8Cochise County, AZ | 57 | 33 | 6.5 | $5.2M | +0.6% | #747 of 2,090 |
| 9Santa Cruz County, AZ | 54 | 12 | 7.1 | $4.5M | +4.8% | #864 of 2,090 |
| 10Gila County, AZ | 53 | 16 | 6.8 | $4.9M | +0.9% | #899 of 2,090 |
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Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Questions
How many pizza places are in Santa Cruz County, AZ?
Santa Cruz County has 12 pizza places on map listings as of September 2026. 5 of them (42%) are chain locations. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 28 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. Official counts list 16 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Santa Cruz County, AZ spend on food away from home?
About $54M a year, or $3,182 per household. That is 22% below the U.S. average (an index of 78, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 12 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $4.5M per pizza place. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places. It is estimated from the incomes of the 16,966 households in Santa Cruz County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Santa Cruz County, AZ compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
Santa Cruz County has 7.1 pizza places per 10,000 households, 11% below the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $4.5M, 11% below the U.S. figure of $5.1M. At the national ratio of pizza places to household spending, Santa Cruz County would have about 11, against 12 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 606 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S.
How fast is Santa Cruz County, AZ growing?
Population estimates put Santa Cruz County at 50,020 people in 2025, up 4.8% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 16,966 households. The median household income in Santa Cruz County is $55,217 a year, 32% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 33.8% 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. Santa Cruz County scores 54 for pizza places (upper middle), #864 of 2,090 scored counties.
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