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Pizza places in Crittenden County, AR
The pizza places in Crittenden County, AR, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other counties.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 23 out of 100: Low
Ranked #1,944 of 2,090 scored counties
#41 of 46 scored counties in Arkansas
- Listings
- 17
- 12 chain locations (71%)
- Official establishments
- 36
- All limited-service restaurants · −10.0% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $56.5M
- On food away from home · $3,103 a household
- Spending per listing
- $3.3M
- 35% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 9.3
- 16% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 46,210
- −3.9% since 2020
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What this means
For pizza places, Crittenden County has a Groundwork market score of 23 (low): #1,944 of 2,090 scored counties and #41 of 46 scored counties in Arkansas. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Map listings as of September 2026 show 17 pizza places in Crittenden County. Chain locations make up 71% of them, against 58% across the U.S. That is 9.3 per 10,000 households, 16% above the U.S. rate of 8.0.
Households in Crittenden County spend about $56.5M a year on food away from home, or $3,103 per household, 24% below the U.S. average. That works out to $3.3M per pizza place, 35% 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 36 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in Crittenden County in 2023, down 10.0% from 2019. That is one for every 506 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. Since fiscal 2022, 2 SBA-backed loans worth $1.1M have gone to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in Crittenden County. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Crittenden County declined 3.9%, against +3.1% for the U.S.
How Crittenden County compares
The same measures for Arkansas 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 | Crittenden County | Arkansas | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 9.3 | 8.1 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $3.3M | $4.2M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 506 | 506 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | −10.0% | +11.1% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −3.9% | +3.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,103 | $3,400 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $55,358 | $60,773 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 23 | 35 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 40 → 36All limited-service restaurants · −10.0% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 705
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $13.2M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 10All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 1712 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
- 2
- Amount
- $1.1M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in Crittenden 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 Crittenden County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 46,210−3.9% since 2020
- Households
- 18,203
- Median age
- 36.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 57%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.6
- Land area
- 612 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 77
- Median household income
- $55,358+37.8% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $70,945
- Median home value
- $160,200
- Jobs located here
- 15,960
- Daytime population
- 41,943Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Arkansas market ranked →The highest-scoring counties in Arkansas for pizza places, numbered among those based in Arkansas, with Crittenden County marked.
Top counties in Arkansas
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Benton County, AR | 71 | 93 | 8.3 | $5.2M | +16.0% | #285 of 2,090 |
| 2Saline County, AR | 68 | 36 | 7.2 | $5.3M | +7.6% | #373 of 2,090 |
| 3Hot Spring County, AR | 62 | 6 | 4.9 | $6.4M | +1.1% | #575 of 2,090 |
| 4Marion County, AR | 60 | 5 | 6.5 | $4.5M | +4.3% | #653 of 2,090 |
| 5Greene County, AR | 58 | 10 | 5.6 | $5.8M | +3.4% | #711 of 2,090 |
| 6Lonoke County, AR | 57 | 25 | 8.8 | $4.2M | +3.5% | #759 of 2,090 |
| 7Miller County, AR | 54 | 8 | 4.9 | $6.2M | −0.5% | #852 of 2,090 |
| 8Polk County, AR | 54 | 5 | 6.3 | $4.8M | +1.6% | #860 of 2,090 |
| 9Johnson County, AR | 53 | 5 | 4.8 | $5.9M | +2.0% | #886 of 2,090 |
| 10Logan County, AR | 53 | 7 | 8.2 | $4M | +2.5% | #913 of 2,090 |
| 41Crittenden County, AR | 23 | 17 | 9.3 | $3.3M | −3.9% | #1,944 of 2,090 |
Other business types in Crittenden County
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Questions
How many pizza places are in Crittenden County, AR?
There are 17 pizza places on map listings in Crittenden County as of September 2026. 12 of them (71%) are chain locations. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 36 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in 2023, down 10.0% from 2019. That count covers all limited-service restaurants (fast food and sandwich shops included), not only pizza places. Official counts list 10 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Crittenden County, AR spend on food away from home?
About $56.5M a year, or $3,103 per household. That is 24% below the U.S. average (an index of 76, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 17 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $3.3M per pizza place. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places. It is estimated from the incomes of the 18,203 households in Crittenden County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Crittenden County, AR compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
Crittenden County has 9.3 pizza places per 10,000 households, 16% above the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $3.3M, 35% below the U.S. figure of $5.1M. At the national ratio of pizza places to household spending, Crittenden County would have about 11, against 17 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 506 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S. The official count fell 10.0% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.1% for the U.S.
How fast is Crittenden County, AR growing?
Population estimates put Crittenden County at 46,210 people in 2025, down 3.9% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 18,203 households. The median household income in Crittenden County is $55,358 a year, 31% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 37.8% 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. Crittenden County scores 23 for pizza places (low), #1,944 of 2,090 scored counties.
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