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Pizza places in Polk County, FL
Competitor counts, household spending and official business counts for pizza places in Polk County, FL, set against other counties and the U.S.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 74 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #192 of 2,090 scored counties
#18 of 56 scored counties in Florida
- Listings
- 156
- 99 chain locations (63%)
- Official establishments
- 482
- All limited-service restaurants · +27.5% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $1B
- On food away from home · $3,500 a household
- Spending per listing
- $6.5M
- 28% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 5.4
- 32% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 874,790
- +19.8% since 2020
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What this means
For pizza places, Polk County has a Groundwork market score of 74 (upper middle): #192 of 2,090 scored counties and #18 of 56 scored counties in Florida. That puts it in the top 10% of counties for pizza places.
Map listings as of September 2026 show 156 pizza places in Polk County. Chain locations make up 63% of them, against 58% across the U.S. That comes to 5.4 for every 10,000 households, 32% below the U.S. rate of 8.0.
Household spending on food away from home in Polk County comes to about $1B a year: $3,500 per household, 14% below the U.S. average. That is about $6.5M of household spending for each pizza place on map listings, 28% above 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.
In 2023, official counts showed 482 businesses with payroll in Polk County classed as limited-service restaurants, up 27.5% from 2019. That is one for every 600 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, 18 SBA-backed loans worth $11.4M have gone to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in Polk County. Population estimates put the population change in Polk County from 2020 to 2025 at +19.8%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How Polk County compares
The same measures for Florida 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 | Polk County | Florida | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 5.4 | 7.1 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $6.5M | $5.4M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 600 | 548 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +27.5% | +12.5% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +19.8% | +8.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,500 | $3,841 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $65,978 | $74,568 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 74 | 67 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 378 → 482All limited-service restaurants · +27.5% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 10,584
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $191.3M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 131All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 15699 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 199The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 18
- Amount
- $11.4M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in Polk 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 Polk County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 874,790+19.8% since 2020
- Households
- 289,425
- Median age
- 40.5
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 70%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.8
- Land area
- 1,799 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 440
- Median household income
- $65,978+30.4% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $87,487
- Median home value
- $266,500
- Jobs located here
- 284,856
- Daytime population
- 728,367Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Florida
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Sumter County, FL | 92 | 19 | 2.7 | $13.9M | +21.1% | #3 of 2,090 |
| 2Wakulla County, FL | 91 | 6 | 4.7 | $8.1M | +12.3% | #9 of 2,090 |
| 3Santa Rosa County, FL | 89 | 39 | 5.4 | $7.8M | +11.7% | #16 of 2,090 |
| 4Flagler County, FL | 85 | 30 | 5.7 | $6.8M | +21.0% | #42 of 2,090 |
| 5Sarasota County, FL | 84 | 147 | 6.9 | $5.9M | +10.0% | #48 of 2,090 |
| 6Manatee County, FL | 82 | 114 | 6.4 | $6.1M | +16.6% | #60 of 2,090 |
| 7Charlotte County, FL | 80 | 57 | 6.3 | $5.7M | +15.5% | #89 of 2,090 |
| 8Collier County, FL | 80 | 129 | 7.8 | $5.6M | +10.6% | #90 of 2,090 |
| 9Lee County, FL | 78 | 227 | 6.9 | $5.6M | +14.4% | #124 of 2,090 |
| 10Citrus County, FL | 77 | 36 | 5.0 | $6.5M | +11.1% | #134 of 2,090 |
| 18Polk County, FL | 74 | 156 | 5.4 | $6.5M | +19.8% | #192 of 2,090 |
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Questions
How many pizza places are in Polk County, FL?
There are 156 pizza places on map listings in Polk County as of September 2026. 99 of them (63%) are chain locations. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 482 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in 2023, up 27.5% from 2019. That count covers all limited-service restaurants (fast food and sandwich shops included), not only pizza places. Official counts list 131 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Polk County, FL spend on food away from home?
About $1B a year, or $3,500 per household. That is 14% below the U.S. average (an index of 86, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 156 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $6.5M per pizza place. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places. It is estimated from the incomes of the 289,425 households in Polk County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Polk County, FL compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
Polk County has 5.4 pizza places per 10,000 households, 32% below the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $6.5M, 28% above the U.S. figure of $5.1M. At the national ratio of pizza places to household spending, Polk County would have about 199, against 156 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 600 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S. The official count rose 27.5% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.1% for the U.S.
How fast is Polk County, FL growing?
Population estimates put Polk County at 874,790 people in 2025, up 19.8% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 289,425 households. The median household income in Polk County is $65,978 a year, 18% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 30.4% 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. Polk County scores 74 for pizza places (upper middle), #192 of 2,090 scored counties.
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