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Pizza places in New Castle County, DE
How New Castle County, DE 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 #719 of 2,090 scored counties
#2 of 3 scored counties in Delaware
- Listings
- 185
- 85 chain locations (46%)
- Official establishments
- 513
- All limited-service restaurants · +7.6% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $956.5M
- On food away from home · $4,267 a household
- Spending per listing
- $5.2M
- 2% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 8.3
- 4% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 588,026
- +3.0% since 2020
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What this means
Household spending on food away from home in New Castle County comes to about $956.5M a year: $4,267 per household, 5% above the U.S. average. That works out to $5.2M per pizza place, 2% above the U.S. figure of $5.1M. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places.
New Castle County has 185 pizza places on map listings as of September 2026. Of those, 85 are chain locations, or 46%, against 58% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 8.3, 4% above the U.S. rate of 8.0.
Official counts show 513 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in New Castle County in 2023, up 7.6% from 2019. That is one for every 437 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 list 116 one-person businesses without payroll. Since fiscal 2022, 22 SBA-backed loans worth $10.2M have gone to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in New Castle County.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of New Castle County grew 3.0%, in step with the U.S. (+3.1%). For pizza places, New Castle County has a Groundwork market score of 58 (upper middle): #719 of 2,090 scored counties and #2 of 3 scored counties in Delaware.
How New Castle County compares
The same measures for Delaware 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 | New Castle County | Delaware | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 8.3 | 8.6 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $5.2M | $4.8M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 437 | 475 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +7.6% | +10.0% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +3.0% | +6.9% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $4,267 | $4,092 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $91,166 | $84,954 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 58 | 53 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 477 → 513All limited-service restaurants · +7.6% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 8,278
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $161.9M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 116All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 18585 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 188The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 22
- Amount
- $10.2M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in New Castle 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 New Castle County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 588,026+3.0% since 2020
- Households
- 224,173
- Median age
- 40.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 69%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.7
- Land area
- 426 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 1,356
- Median household income
- $91,166+23.4% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $120,517
- Median home value
- $352,200
- Jobs located here
- 298,174
- Daytime population
- 607,117Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Delaware
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Sussex County, DE | 67 | 93 | 8.7 | $4.5M | +16.1% | #422 of 2,090 |
| 2New Castle County, DE | 58 | 185 | 8.3 | $5.2M | +3.0% | #719 of 2,090 |
| 3Kent County, DE | 54 | 68 | 9.5 | $3.9M | +6.8% | #873 of 2,090 |
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Questions
How many pizza places are in New Castle County, DE?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 185 pizza places in New Castle County. 85 of them (46%) are chain locations. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 513 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in 2023, up 7.6% from 2019. 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 116 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in New Castle County, DE spend on food away from home?
About $956.5M a year, or $4,267 per household. That is 5% above the U.S. average (an index of 105, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 185 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $5.2M 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 224,173 households in New Castle County and national spending patterns by income.
How does New Castle County, DE compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
New Castle County has 8.3 pizza places per 10,000 households, 4% above the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $5.2M, 2% above the U.S. figure of $5.1M. At the U.S. ratio of pizza places to household spending, New Castle County would have about 188, against 185 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 437 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S. The official count rose 7.6% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.1% for the U.S.
How fast is New Castle County, DE growing?
Population estimates put New Castle County at 588,026 people in 2025, up 3.0% since 2020, in step with the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 224,173 households. Median household income in New Castle County is $91,166, 13% above the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 23.4%, 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. New Castle County scores 58 for pizza places (upper middle), #719 of 2,090 scored counties.
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