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Pizza places in Thomas County, GA
How Thomas County, GA 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 22 out of 100: Low
Ranked #1,973 of 2,090 scored counties
#94 of 116 scored counties in Georgia
- Listings
- 23
- 19 chain locations (83%)
- Official establishments
- 47
- All limited-service restaurants · +23.7% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $62.2M
- On food away from home · $3,327 a household
- Spending per listing
- $2.7M
- 47% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 12.3
- 54% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 46,368
- +1.3% since 2020
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What this means
For pizza places, Thomas County has a Groundwork market score of 22 (low): #1,973 of 2,090 scored counties and #94 of 116 scored counties in Georgia. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Household spending on food away from home in Thomas County comes to about $62.2M a year: $3,327 per household, 18% below the U.S. average. That is about $2.7M of household spending for each pizza place on map listings, 47% below the U.S. figure of $5.1M. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places.
Thomas County has 23 pizza places on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 83% of them, against 58% across the U.S. That comes to 12.3 for every 10,000 households, 54% above the U.S. rate of 8.0.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in Thomas County was 47 in 2023, up 23.7% from 2019. That is one for every 398 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 Thomas County grew 1.3% from 2020 to 2025, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How Thomas County compares
The same measures for Georgia 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 | Thomas County | Georgia | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 12.3 | 8.7 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $2.7M | $4.5M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 398 | 419 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +23.7% | +9.0% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +1.3% | +5.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,327 | $3,917 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $60,736 | $77,353 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 22 | 39 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 38 → 47All limited-service restaurants · +23.7% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 795
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $14.7M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 2319 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 12The 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 Thomas 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 Thomas County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 46,368+1.3% since 2020
- Households
- 18,684
- Median age
- 40.6
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 64%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.8
- Land area
- 545 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 84
- Median household income
- $60,736+38.9% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $81,177
- Median home value
- $196,700
- Jobs located here
- 21,334
- Daytime population
- 48,014Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Georgia
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Paulding County, GA | 88 | 37 | 6.2 | $7M | +12.7% | #19 of 2,090 |
| 2Lee County, GA | 82 | 7 | 5.7 | $7M | +2.9% | #57 of 2,090 |
| 3Forsyth County, GA | 80 | 61 | 6.9 | $8M | +11.8% | #80 of 2,090 |
| 4Cherokee County, GA | 80 | 76 | 7.5 | $6.2M | +11.6% | #88 of 2,090 |
| 5Coweta County, GA | 75 | 46 | 8.2 | $5.3M | +9.2% | #178 of 2,090 |
| 6Pike County, GA | 74 | 6 | 8.9 | $4.5M | +10.5% | #206 of 2,090 |
| 7Harris County, GA | 74 | 15 | 11.5 | $3.8M | +6.8% | #207 of 2,090 |
| 8Columbia County, GA | 71 | 35 | 6.3 | $6.9M | +7.9% | #263 of 2,090 |
| 9Jones County, GA | 71 | 8 | 7.4 | $5M | +2.8% | #288 of 2,090 |
| 10Newton County, GA | 70 | 25 | 6.1 | $6.1M | +11.2% | #304 of 2,090 |
| 94Thomas County, GA | 22 | 23 | 12.3 | $2.7M | +1.3% | #1,973 of 2,090 |
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Questions
How many pizza places are in Thomas County, GA?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 23 pizza places in Thomas County. 19 of them (83%) are chain locations. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 47 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in 2023, up 23.7% from 2019. 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 Thomas County, GA spend on food away from home?
About $62.2M a year, or $3,327 per household. That is 18% below the U.S. average (an index of 82, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 23 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $2.7M 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 18,684 households in Thomas County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Thomas County, GA compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
Thomas County has 12.3 pizza places per 10,000 households, 54% above the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $2.7M, 47% below the U.S. figure of $5.1M. At the U.S. ratio of pizza places to household spending, Thomas County would have about 12, against 23 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 398 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S. The official count rose 23.7% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.1% for the U.S.
How fast is Thomas County, GA growing?
Population estimates put Thomas County at 46,368 people in 2025, up 1.3% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 18,684 households. Median household income in Thomas County is $60,736, 25% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 38.9%, 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. Thomas County scores 22 for pizza places (low), #1,973 of 2,090 scored counties.
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