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Pizza places in the Crescent City, CA area
How the Crescent City, CA area compares with other small-town markets 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 4.
- Listings
- 4
- 3 chain locations (75%)
- Official establishments
- 10
- All limited-service restaurants
- Household spending a year
- $34.1M
- On food away from home · $3,584 a household
- Spending per listing
- $8.5M
- 68% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 4.2
- 47% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 26,410
- −4.4% since 2020
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What this means
Household spending on food away from home in the Crescent City area comes to about $34.1M a year: $3,584 per household, 12% below the U.S. average. Spread across 4 pizza places, that is $8.5M per pizza place, 68% above the U.S. figure of $5.1M. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places.
The Crescent City area has 4 pizza places on map listings as of September 2026. That is 4.2 per 10,000 households, 47% below the U.S. rate of 8.0.
Official counts show 10 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in the Crescent City area in 2023. That is one for every 952 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.
Population estimates show the Crescent City area declined 4.4% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S. With 4 pizza places on map listings, the Crescent City area isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How the Crescent City area compares
The same measures for California 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 | Crescent City area | California | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 4.2 | 6.9 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $8.5M | $6.6M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 952 | 392 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +6.5% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −4.4% | −0.4% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,584 | $4,559 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $67,058 | $99,122 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 55 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 10All limited-service restaurants
- Employees, 2023
- 176
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $3.3M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 43 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 7The 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 the Crescent City 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. These official figures cover all limited-service restaurants, not only pizza places.
Population and households in the Crescent City area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 26,410−4.4% since 2020
- Households
- 9,522
- Median age
- 41.0
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 70%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 1,006 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 27
- Median household income
- $67,058+48.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $85,665
- Median home value
- $342,000
- Jobs located here
- 7,729
- Daytime population
- 25,295Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every California market ranked →The highest-scoring small-town markets in California for pizza places, numbered among those based in California (a market based in another state is listed without a number), with the Crescent City area marked.
Top small-town markets in California
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Truckee-Grass Valley, CA | 80 | 26 | 6.1 | $7.1M | −0.4% | #19 of 520 |
| Gardnerville Ranchos, NV-CA | 74 | 13 | 6.0 | $7.2M | +0.9% | #46 of 520 |
| 2Red Bluff, CA | 67 | 16 | 6.5 | $5.4M | −1.7% | #100 of 520 |
| 3Sonora, CA | 63 | 20 | 8.8 | $4.4M | −4.0% | #130 of 520 |
| 4Clearlake, CA | 60 | 22 | 8.2 | $4.3M | −0.6% | #156 of 520 |
| 5Ukiah, CA | 50 | 26 | 7.5 | $4.9M | −3.5% | #252 of 520 |
| 6Susanville, CA | 47 | 8 | 8.7 | $4M | −13.1% | #289 of 520 |
| 7Eureka-Arcata, CA | 46 | 49 | 8.9 | $3.9M | −3.4% | #298 of 520 |
| 8Bishop, CA | 37 | 8 | 10.0 | $3.8M | −4.4% | #389 of 520 |
| Crescent City, CA | Not scored | 4 | 4.2 | $8.5M | −4.4% |
Other business types in the Crescent City area
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Questions
How many pizza places are in the Crescent City, CA area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 4 pizza places in the Crescent City area. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 10 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in 2023. The official count takes in all limited-service restaurants, not only pizza places: fast food and sandwich shops are counted too.
How much do households in the Crescent City, CA area spend on food away from home?
About $34.1M a year, or $3,584 per household. That is 12% below the U.S. average (an index of 88, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 4 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $8.5M 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 9,522 households in the Crescent City area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Crescent City, CA area compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
The Crescent City area has 4.2 pizza places per 10,000 households, 47% below the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $8.5M, 68% above the U.S. figure of $5.1M. At the U.S. ratio of pizza places to household spending, the Crescent City area would have about 7, against 4 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 952 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S.
How fast is the Crescent City, CA area growing?
Population estimates put the Crescent City area at 26,410 people in 2025, down 4.4% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 9,522 households. Median household income in the Crescent City area is $67,058, 17% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 48.1%, 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. 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 Crescent City area has no market score for pizza places: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 4.
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