Food and drink · Small-town market · Kansas
Pizza places in the Salina, KS area
How the Salina, KS 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 31 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #451 of 520 scored small-town markets
#10 of 13 scored small-town markets based in Kansas
- Listings
- 28
- 23 chain locations (82%)
- Official establishments
- 55
- All limited-service restaurants · −3.5% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $88.6M
- On food away from home · $3,554 a household
- Spending per listing
- $3.2M
- 38% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 11.2
- 40% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 59,121
- −1.4% since 2020
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What this means
The Groundwork market score for pizza places in the Salina area is 31 (lower middle), #451 of 520 scored small-town markets and #10 of 13 scored small-town markets based in Kansas. That puts it in the bottom quarter of small-town markets.
Household spending on food away from home in the Salina area comes to about $88.6M a year: $3,554 per household, 13% below the U.S. average. Spread across 28 pizza places, that is $3.2M per pizza place, 38% below the U.S. figure of $5.1M. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places.
There are 28 pizza places on map listings in the Salina area as of September 2026. 23 of them (82%) are chain locations, against 58% across the U.S. That comes to 11.2 for every 10,000 households, 40% above the U.S. rate of 8.0.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in the Salina area was 55 in 2023, down 3.5% from 2019. That is one for every 453 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 Salina area declined 1.4%, against +3.1% for the U.S.
How the Salina area compares
The same measures for Kansas 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 | Salina area | Kansas | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 11.2 | 10.1 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $3.2M | $3.9M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 453 | 526 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | −3.5% | +4.7% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −1.4% | +1.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,554 | $3,910 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $65,745 | $74,275 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 31 | 38 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 55All limited-service restaurants · −3.5% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 1,148
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $23.1M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 9All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 2823 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 17The 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 Salina 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 Salina area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 59,121−1.4% since 2020
- Households
- 24,931
- Median age
- 42.1
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 68%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 1,441 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 41
- Median household income
- $65,745+25.5% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $87,150
- Median home value
- $178,200
- Jobs located here
- 30,161
- Daytime population
- 61,857Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Kansas market ranked →The highest-scoring small-town markets in Kansas for pizza places, numbered among those based in Kansas, with the Salina area marked.
Top small-town markets in Kansas
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Hutchinson, KS | 55 | 16 | 6.3 | $5.4M | −0.6% | #204 of 520 |
| 2Garden City, KS | 48 | 12 | 9.1 | $4.2M | −2.1% | #274 of 520 |
| 3Ottawa, KS | 46 | 16 | 15.4 | $2.4M | +1.1% | #303 of 520 |
| 4Atchison, KS | 42 | 8 | 13.9 | $2.4M | −0.9% | #335 of 520 |
| 5McPherson, KS | 41 | 18 | 14.8 | $2.6M | −0.4% | #350 of 520 |
| 6Dodge City, KS | 39 | 17 | 14.4 | $2.6M | −0.6% | #373 of 520 |
| 7Arkansas City-Winfield, KS | 37 | 14 | 10.5 | $3.2M | −0.4% | #392 of 520 |
| 8Pittsburg, KS | 37 | 20 | 12.6 | $2.5M | +0.1% | #394 of 520 |
| 9Great Bend, KS | 34 | 13 | 12.5 | $2.7M | −2.5% | #419 of 520 |
| 10Salina, KS | 31 | 28 | 11.2 | $3.2M | −1.4% | #451 of 520 |
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Questions
How many pizza places are in the Salina, KS area?
As of September 2026, map listings count 28 pizza places in the Salina area. 23 of them (82%) are chain locations. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 55 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in 2023, down 3.5% 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 list 9 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in the Salina, KS area spend on food away from home?
About $88.6M a year, or $3,554 per household. That is 13% below the U.S. average (an index of 87, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 28 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $3.2M 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 24,931 households in the Salina area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Salina, KS area compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
The Salina area has 11.2 pizza places per 10,000 households, 40% above the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $3.2M, 38% below the U.S. figure of $5.1M. At the U.S. ratio of pizza places to household spending, the Salina area would have about 17, against 28 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 453 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S. The official count fell 3.5% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.1% for the U.S.
How fast is the Salina, KS area growing?
Population estimates put the Salina area at 59,121 people in 2025, down 1.4% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 24,931 households. Median household income in the Salina area is $65,745, 19% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 25.5%, 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. 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 Salina area scores 31 for pizza places (lower middle), #451 of 520 scored small-town markets.
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