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Pizza places in Garrard County, KY
How Garrard County, KY compares with other counties and the U.S. for pizza places: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 3.
- Listings
- 3
- 2 chain locations (67%)
- Official establishments
- 5
- All limited-service restaurants
- Household spending a year
- $21.8M
- On food away from home · $3,249 a household
- Spending per listing
- $7.3M
- 43% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 4.5
- 44% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 18,207
- +7.3% since 2020
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 3 pizza places in Garrard County. Per 10,000 households, that is 4.5, 44% below the U.S. rate of 8.0.
At $3,249 per household (20% below the U.S. average), households in Garrard County spend about $21.8M a year on food away from home. That works out to $7.3M per pizza place, 43% above the U.S. figure of $5.1M. That spending covers all food away from home, which pizza places share with other businesses in the trade.
Official counts show 5 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in Garrard County in 2023. That is one for every 1,339 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S. The official count takes in all limited-service restaurants, not only pizza places: fast food and sandwich shops are counted too.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Garrard County grew 7.3%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). With 3 pizza places on map listings, Garrard County isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How Garrard 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 | Garrard County | Kentucky | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 4.5 | 10.5 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $7.3M | $3.3M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 1,339 | 519 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +5.7% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +7.3% | +2.2% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,249 | $3,489 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $63,087 | $63,726 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 28 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 5 → 5All limited-service restaurants
- Employees, 2023
- 64
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $700K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 32 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 4The 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 Garrard 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 Garrard County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 18,207+7.3% since 2020
- Households
- 6,695
- Median age
- 41.8
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 80%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 230 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 76
- Median household income
- $63,087+19.9% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $78,527
- Median home value
- $204,900
- Jobs located here
- 2,429
- Daytime population
- 12,659Residents 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 |
| Garrard County, KY | Not scored | 3 | 4.5 | $7.3M | +7.3% |
Other business types in Garrard County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Questions
How many pizza places are in Garrard County, KY?
Garrard County has 3 pizza places on map listings as of September 2026. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 5 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in 2023. That count covers all limited-service restaurants (fast food and sandwich shops included), not only pizza places.
How much do households in Garrard County, KY spend on food away from home?
About $21.8M a year, or $3,249 per household. That is 20% below the U.S. average (an index of 80, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 3 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $7.3M per pizza place. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places. It is estimated from the incomes of the 6,695 households in Garrard County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Garrard County, KY compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
Garrard County has 4.5 pizza places per 10,000 households, 44% below the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $7.3M, 43% above the U.S. figure of $5.1M. At the national ratio of pizza places to household spending, Garrard County would have about 4, against 3 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,339 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S.
How fast is Garrard County, KY growing?
Population estimates put Garrard County at 18,207 people in 2025, up 7.3% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 6,695 households. The median household income in Garrard County is $63,087 a year, 22% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 19.9% from the 2015–2019 survey, 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. Garrard County has no market score for pizza places: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 3.
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