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Pizza places in Gem County, ID
How Gem County, ID 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 71 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #279 of 2,090 scored counties
#5 of 23 scored counties in Idaho
- Listings
- 5
- 5 chain locations (100%)
- Official establishments
- 12
- All limited-service restaurants
- Household spending a year
- $27.3M
- On food away from home · $3,568 a household
- Spending per listing
- $5.5M
- 7% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 6.5
- 19% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 21,773
- +13.0% since 2020
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What this means
At $3,568 per household (12% below the U.S. average), households in Gem County spend about $27.3M a year on food away from home. That is about $5.5M of household spending for each pizza place on map listings, 7% above the U.S. figure of $5.1M. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places.
Gem County has 5 pizza places on map listings as of September 2026. All of them are chain locations, against 58% across the U.S. That comes to 6.5 for every 10,000 households, 19% below the U.S. rate of 8.0.
Official counts show 12 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in Gem County in 2023. That is one for every 637 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. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $575K has gone to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in Gem County.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Gem County grew 13.0%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). For pizza places, Gem County has a Groundwork market score of 71 (upper middle): #279 of 2,090 scored counties and #5 of 23 scored counties in Idaho. That puts it in the top quarter of counties.
How Gem County compares
The same measures for Idaho 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 | Gem County | Idaho | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 6.5 | 7.5 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $5.5M | $5.1M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 637 | 510 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +19.5% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +13.0% | +9.8% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,568 | $3,857 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $64,605 | $77,800 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 71 | 61 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 11 → 12All limited-service restaurants
- Employees, 2023
- 227
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $4M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 55 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 5The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $575K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in Gem 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 Gem County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 21,773+13.0% since 2020
- Households
- 7,643
- Median age
- 44.3
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 76%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.4
- Land area
- 560 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 37
- Median household income
- $64,605+42.0% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $86,642
- Median home value
- $428,700
- Jobs located here
- 4,657
- Daytime population
- 16,682Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Idaho
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Canyon County, ID | 81 | 42 | 4.9 | $7.7M | +18.1% | #64 of 2,090 |
| 2Payette County, ID | 75 | 6 | 6.2 | $5.7M | +8.8% | #175 of 2,090 |
| 3Bingham County, ID | 74 | 11 | 6.8 | $5.5M | +6.4% | #196 of 2,090 |
| 4Jefferson County, ID | 73 | 9 | 8.8 | $4.5M | +13.6% | #232 of 2,090 |
| 5Gem County, ID | 71 | 5 | 6.5 | $5.5M | +13.0% | #279 of 2,090 |
| 6Kootenai County, ID | 67 | 55 | 7.7 | $5.1M | +11.0% | #415 of 2,090 |
| 7Jerome County, ID | 67 | 7 | 8.5 | $4.3M | +8.6% | #426 of 2,090 |
| 8Bonneville County, ID | 66 | 29 | 6.6 | $5.9M | +8.9% | #442 of 2,090 |
| 9Ada County, ID | 66 | 168 | 8.3 | $5.2M | +9.6% | #453 of 2,090 |
| 10Bonner County, ID | 65 | 18 | 8.9 | $4.1M | +14.8% | #491 of 2,090 |
Other business types in Gem County
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Questions
How many pizza places are in Gem County, ID?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 5 pizza places in Gem County. 5 of them (100%) are chain locations. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 12 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 Gem County, ID spend on food away from home?
About $27.3M a year, or $3,568 per household. That is 12% below the U.S. average (an index of 88, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 5 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $5.5M 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 7,643 households in Gem County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Gem County, ID compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
Gem County has 6.5 pizza places per 10,000 households, 19% below the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $5.5M, 7% above the U.S. figure of $5.1M. The count on map listings matches the U.S. ratio of pizza places to household spending. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 637 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S.
How fast is Gem County, ID growing?
Population estimates put Gem County at 21,773 people in 2025, up 13.0% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 7,643 households. Median household income in Gem County is $64,605, 20% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 42.0%, 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. Gem County scores 71 for pizza places (upper middle), #279 of 2,090 scored counties.
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