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Pizza places in Letcher County, KY
The pizza places in Letcher County, KY, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other counties.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 17 out of 100: Low
Ranked #2,044 of 2,090 scored counties
#80 of 92 scored counties in Kentucky
- Listings
- 12
- 8 chain locations (67%)
- Official establishments
- 14
- All limited-service restaurants
- Household spending a year
- $22.7M
- On food away from home · $2,687 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.9M
- 63% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 14.2
- 78% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 19,952
- −7.0% since 2020
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What this means
The Groundwork market score for pizza places in Letcher County is 17 (low), #2,044 of 2,090 scored counties and #80 of 92 scored counties in Kentucky. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Households in Letcher County spend about $22.7M a year on food away from home, or $2,687 per household, 34% below the U.S. average. That works out to $1.9M per pizza place, 63% below the U.S. figure of $5.1M. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places.
Letcher County has 12 pizza places on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 67% of them, against 58% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 14.2, 78% above the U.S. rate of 8.0.
In 2023, official counts showed 14 businesses with payroll in Letcher County classed as limited-service restaurants. That is one for every 605 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 Letcher County declined 7.0%, against +3.1% for the U.S.
How Letcher 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 | Letcher County | Kentucky | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 14.2 | 10.5 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $1.9M | $3.3M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 605 | 519 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +5.7% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −7.0% | +2.2% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $2,687 | $3,489 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $41,793 | $63,726 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 17 | 28 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 14 → 14All limited-service restaurants
- Employees, 2023
- 307
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $5.6M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 128 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
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in Letcher 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 Letcher County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 19,952−7.0% since 2020
- Households
- 8,463
- Median age
- 43.8
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 74%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 338 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 62
- Median household income
- $41,793+39.8% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $53,066
- Median home value
- $67,400
- Jobs located here
- 4,399
- Daytime population
- 18,096Residents 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 |
| 80Letcher County, KY | 17 | 12 | 14.2 | $1.9M | −7.0% | #2,044 of 2,090 |
Other business types in Letcher County
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Questions
How many pizza places are in Letcher County, KY?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 12 pizza places in Letcher County. 8 of them (67%) are chain locations. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 14 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 Letcher County, KY spend on food away from home?
About $22.7M a year, or $2,687 per household. That is 34% below the U.S. average (an index of 66, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 12 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $1.9M 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 8,463 households in Letcher County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Letcher County, KY compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
Letcher County has 14.2 pizza places per 10,000 households, 78% above the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $1.9M, 63% below the U.S. figure of $5.1M. At the U.S. ratio of pizza places to household spending, Letcher County would have about 5, against 12 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 605 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S.
How fast is Letcher County, KY growing?
Population estimates put Letcher County at 19,952 people in 2025, down 7.0% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 8,463 households. Median household income in Letcher County is $41,793, 48% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 39.8%, 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. Letcher County scores 17 for pizza places (low), #2,044 of 2,090 scored counties.
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