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Pizza places in St. James Parish, LA
How St. James Parish, LA 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 1.
- Listings
- 1
- 1 chain location (100%)
- Official establishments
- 11
- All limited-service restaurants
- Household spending a year
- $28M
- On food away from home · $3,715 a household
- Spending per listing
- $28M
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 1.3
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 18,938
- −5.9% since 2020
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What this means
Households in St. James Parish spend about $28M a year on food away from home, or $3,715 per household, 9% below the U.S. average. That works out to $28M per pizza place. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places.
There is 1 pizza place on map listings in St. James Parish as of September 2026. That is 1.3 per 10,000 households.
Official counts show 11 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in St. James Parish in 2023. That is one for every 686 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. Another 3 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.
Population estimates show St. James Parish declined 5.9% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S. With 1 pizza place on map listings, St. James Parish isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How St. James Parish compares
The same measures for Louisiana 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 | St. James Parish | Louisiana | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 1.3 | 5.4 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $28M | $6.4M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 686 | 480 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +5.1% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −5.9% | −0.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,715 | $3,469 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $65,531 | $60,756 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 42 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 12 → 11All limited-service restaurants
- Employees, 2023
- 132
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $2.3M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 3All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 11 chain location
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 6The 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 St. James Parish, 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 St. James Parish
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 18,938−5.9% since 2020
- Households
- 7,543
- Median age
- 42.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 84%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 238 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 82
- Median household income
- $65,531+27.0% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $95,062
- Median home value
- $211,800
- Jobs located here
- 7,713
- Daytime population
- 18,422Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Louisiana
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Livingston Parish, LA | 76 | 26 | 4.9 | $7.8M | +8.5% | #149 of 2,090 |
| 2Vermilion Parish, LA | 70 | 7 | 3.2 | $10.2M | +1.3% | #295 of 2,090 |
| 3St. Charles Parish, LA | 69 | 7 | 3.8 | $10.6M | −3.7% | #324 of 2,090 |
| 4St. Tammany Parish, LA | 69 | 68 | 6.5 | $6.2M | +5.3% | #338 of 2,090 |
| 5Ascension Parish, LA | 67 | 31 | 6.5 | $6.6M | +6.4% | #392 of 2,090 |
| 6West Baton Rouge Parish, LA | 66 | 5 | 4.6 | $8.5M | +5.5% | #431 of 2,090 |
| 7St. Martin Parish, LA | 64 | 6 | 3.1 | $10.7M | −1.0% | #496 of 2,090 |
| 8Lafourche Parish, LA | 63 | 16 | 4.2 | $8.3M | −2.0% | #528 of 2,090 |
| 9Iberville Parish, LA | 61 | 5 | 4.4 | $7.6M | −1.6% | #601 of 2,090 |
| 10Lafayette Parish, LA | 61 | 55 | 5.5 | $6.7M | +6.5% | #604 of 2,090 |
| St. James Parish, LA | Not scored | 1 | 1.3 | $28M | −5.9% |
Other business types in St. James Parish
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 St. James Parish, LA?
As of September 2026, map listings count 1 pizza place in St. James Parish. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 11 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. Official counts list 3 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in St. James Parish, LA spend on food away from home?
About $28M a year, or $3,715 per household. That is 9% below the U.S. average (an index of 91, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1 pizza place on map listings, it comes to $28M 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 7,543 households in St. James Parish and national spending patterns by income.
How does St. James Parish, LA compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
St. James Parish has 1 pizza place on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the U.S. ratio of pizza places to household spending, St. James Parish would have about 6, against 1 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 686 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S.
How fast is St. James Parish, LA growing?
Population estimates put St. James Parish at 18,938 people in 2025, down 5.9% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 7,543 households. Median household income in St. James Parish is $65,531, 19% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 27.0%, 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. St. James Parish has no market score for pizza places: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 1.
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