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Pizza places in the Thomasville, GA area

How the Thomasville, GA area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for pizza places: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.

Groundwork market score · out of 100

Score 27 out of 100: Lower middle

Ranked #476 of 520 scored small-town markets
#16 of 23 scored small-town markets based in Georgia

Listings
37
32 chain locations (86%)
Official establishments
66
All limited-service restaurants · +24.5% since 2019
Household spending a year
$96M
On food away from home · $3,335 a household
Spending per listing
$2.6M
49% below the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
12.9
61% above the U.S.
Population, 2025
72,958
+1.3% since 2020

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Survey estimates 2020–2024 · population estimates 2025 · official business counts 2023 · map listings September 2026 · Data credits · How we measure

What this means

For pizza places, the Thomasville area has a Groundwork market score of 27 (lower middle): #476 of 520 scored small-town markets and #16 of 23 scored small-town markets based in Georgia. That puts it in the bottom quarter of small-town markets.

Household spending on food away from home in the Thomasville area comes to about $96M a year: $3,335 per household, 18% below the U.S. average. Spread across 37 pizza places, that is $2.6M per pizza place, 49% below the U.S. figure of $5.1M. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places.

The Thomasville area has 37 pizza places on map listings as of September 2026. 32 of them (86%) are chain locations, against 58% across the U.S. That is 12.9 per 10,000 households, 61% above the U.S. rate of 8.0.

The official count of businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in the Thomasville area was 66 in 2023, up 24.5% from 2019. That is one for every 436 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. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Thomasville area grew 1.3%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%).

How the Thomasville area 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.

Pizza in Thomasville, GA area compared with Georgia and the U.S.
MeasureThomasville areaGeorgiaU.S.
Listings per 10k households12.98.78.0
Spending per listing$2.6M$4.5M$5.1M
Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants)436419478
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023+24.5%+9.0%+6.1%
Population growth, 2020–2025+1.3%+5.3%+3.1%
Spending per household on food away from home$3,335$3,917$4,070
Median household income$60,262$77,353$80,734
Groundwork market score2739

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
66All limited-service restaurants · +24.5% over the period
Employees, 2023
1,137
Annual payroll, 2023
$19.9M
One-person businesses, 2023
0All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
Map listings, September 2026
3732 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
19The 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 Thomasville 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 Thomasville area

Population, 2025 estimate
72,958+1.3% since 2020
Households
28,792
Median age
40.6
Homes lived in by their owners
65%
Vehicles per household
1.8
Land area
999 sq. mi.
People per square mile
72
Median household income
$60,262
Average household income
$80,075
Median home value
$180,600
Jobs located here
27,454
Daytime population
70,004Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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The highest-scoring small-town markets in Georgia for pizza places, numbered among those based in Georgia (a market based in another state is listed without a number), with the Thomasville area marked.

Top small-town markets in Georgia

Small-town markets in Georgia ranked for pizza places by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1Jefferson, GA693211.3$3.7M+29.3%#87 of 520
2Kingsland, GA67156.9$5.3M+9.5%#101 of 520
3Calhoun, GA57198.9$4M+6.9%#180 of 520
4Toccoa, GA5665.7$5.4M+3.8%#186 of 520
5Cornelia, GA541710.1$3.5M+9.3%#221 of 520
6Douglas, GA372211.8$2.6M+2.9%#393 of 520
Eufaula, AL-GA3665.9$5M−1.2%#395 of 520
7Thomaston, GA351211.3$2.9M+2.7%#412 of 520
8Summerville, GA351516.4$1.8M+1.5%#414 of 520
9Statesboro, GA344312.3$2.7M+8.0%#420 of 520
16Thomasville, GA273712.9$2.6M+1.3%#476 of 520

Other business types in the Thomasville area

Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.

Questions

How many pizza places are in the Thomasville, GA area?

Map listings as of September 2026 show 37 pizza places in the Thomasville area. 32 of them (86%) are chain locations. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 66 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in 2023, up 24.5% 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 the Thomasville, GA area spend on food away from home?

About $96M a year, or $3,335 per household. That is 18% below the U.S. average (an index of 82, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 37 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $2.6M 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 28,792 households in the Thomasville area and national spending patterns by income.

How does the Thomasville, GA area compare with the U.S. for pizza places?

The Thomasville area has 12.9 pizza places per 10,000 households, 61% above the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $2.6M, 49% below the U.S. figure of $5.1M. At the U.S. ratio of pizza places to household spending, the Thomasville area would have about 19, against 37 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 436 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S. The official count rose 24.5% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.1% for the U.S.

How fast is the Thomasville, GA area growing?

Population estimates put the Thomasville area at 72,958 people in 2025, up 1.3% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 28,792 households. Median household income in the Thomasville area is $60,262, 25% below the U.S. median of $80,734.

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 Thomasville area scores 27 for pizza places (lower middle), #476 of 520 scored small-town markets.

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