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Pizza places in Carter County, KY
How Carter County, KY 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 24 out of 100: Low
Ranked #1,936 of 2,090 scored counties
#71 of 92 scored counties in Kentucky
- Listings
- 16
- 15 chain locations (94%)
- Official establishments
- 17
- All limited-service restaurants · −15.0% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $33.6M
- On food away from home · $3,110 a household
- Spending per listing
- $2.1M
- 59% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 14.8
- 85% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 26,149
- −1.7% since 2020
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What this means
For pizza places, Carter County has a Groundwork market score of 24 (low): #1,936 of 2,090 scored counties and #71 of 92 scored counties in Kentucky. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Household spending on food away from home in Carter County comes to about $33.6M a year: $3,110 per household, 24% below the U.S. average. That works out to $2.1M per pizza place, 59% below the U.S. figure of $5.1M. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places.
Carter County has 16 pizza places on map listings as of September 2026. 15 of them (94%) are chain locations, against 58% across the U.S. That comes to 14.8 for every 10,000 households, 85% above the U.S. rate of 8.0.
Official counts show 17 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in Carter County in 2023, down 15.0% from 2019. That is one for every 635 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 Carter County declined 1.7% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S.
How Carter County compares
The same measures for Kentucky 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 | Carter County | Kentucky | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 14.8 | 10.5 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $2.1M | $3.3M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 635 | 519 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | −15.0% | +5.7% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −1.7% | +2.2% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,110 | $3,489 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $51,235 | $63,726 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 24 | 28 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 20 → 17All limited-service restaurants · −15.0% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 443
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $7.3M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 3All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 1615 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 7The 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 Carter 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 Carter County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 26,149−1.7% since 2020
- Households
- 10,794
- Median age
- 41.9
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 80%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.2
- Land area
- 410 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 64
- Median household income
- $51,235+47.5% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $69,045
- Median home value
- $132,800
- Jobs located here
- 6,014
- Daytime population
- 23,638Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Kentucky
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Oldham County, KY | 86 | 14 | 6.1 | $8.2M | +4.9% | #27 of 2,090 |
| 2Spencer County, KY | 85 | 6 | 8.2 | $5.3M | +7.7% | #44 of 2,090 |
| 3Shelby County, KY | 78 | 10 | 5.4 | $7.3M | +6.2% | #117 of 2,090 |
| 4Kenton County, KY | 73 | 48 | 7.1 | $5.6M | +3.9% | #224 of 2,090 |
| 5Woodford County, KY | 65 | 10 | 9.2 | $4.3M | +3.7% | #488 of 2,090 |
| 6Scott County, KY | 64 | 24 | 10.6 | $3.8M | +8.2% | #523 of 2,090 |
| 7Nelson County, KY | 63 | 14 | 7.3 | $4.8M | +4.8% | #555 of 2,090 |
| 8Anderson County, KY | 61 | 7 | 7.3 | $5M | +5.5% | #618 of 2,090 |
| 9Allen County, KY | 61 | 6 | 7.5 | $4.3M | +9.5% | #626 of 2,090 |
| 10Bullitt County, KY | 61 | 32 | 10.1 | $3.9M | +5.0% | #628 of 2,090 |
| 71Carter County, KY | 24 | 16 | 14.8 | $2.1M | −1.7% | #1,936 of 2,090 |
Other business types in Carter County
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Questions
How many pizza places are in Carter County, KY?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 16 pizza places in Carter County. 15 of them (94%) are chain locations. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 17 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in 2023, down 15.0% 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 also show 3 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Carter County, KY spend on food away from home?
About $33.6M a year, or $3,110 per household. That is 24% below the U.S. average (an index of 76, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 16 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $2.1M 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 10,794 households in Carter County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Carter County, KY compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
Carter County has 14.8 pizza places per 10,000 households, 85% above the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $2.1M, 59% below the U.S. figure of $5.1M. At the U.S. ratio of pizza places to household spending, Carter County would have about 7, against 16 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 635 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S. The official count fell 15.0% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.1% for the U.S.
How fast is Carter County, KY growing?
Population estimates put Carter County at 26,149 people in 2025, down 1.7% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 10,794 households. Median household income in Carter County is $51,235, 37% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 47.5%, 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. 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. Carter County scores 24 for pizza places (low), #1,936 of 2,090 scored counties.
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