Food and drink · Small-town market · Maine
Pizza places in the Augusta-Waterville, ME area
How the Augusta-Waterville, ME 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 65 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #116 of 520 scored small-town markets
The only scored small-town market based in Maine
- Listings
- 47
- 12 chain locations (26%)
- Official establishments
- 90
- All limited-service restaurants · −2.2% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $196M
- On food away from home · $3,609 a household
- Spending per listing
- $4.2M
- 18% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 8.7
- 9% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 129,067
- +3.5% since 2020
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 47 pizza places in the Augusta-Waterville area. Chain locations make up 26% of them, against 58% across the U.S. That comes to 8.7 for every 10,000 households, 9% above the U.S. rate of 8.0.
At $3,609 per household (11% below the U.S. average), households in the Augusta-Waterville area spend about $196M a year on food away from home. That is about $4.2M of household spending for each pizza place on map listings, 18% below 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.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in the Augusta-Waterville area was 90 in 2023, down 2.2% from 2019. That is one for every 603 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. Official counts list 17 one-person businesses without payroll. Since fiscal 2022, 4 SBA-backed loans worth $3.6M have gone to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in the Augusta-Waterville area.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Augusta-Waterville area grew 3.5%, in step with the U.S. (+3.1%). For pizza places, the Augusta-Waterville area has a Groundwork market score of 65 (upper middle): #116 of 520 scored small-town markets and the only scored small-town market based in Maine. That puts it in the top quarter of small-town markets.
How the Augusta-Waterville area compares
The same measures for Maine 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 | Augusta-Waterville area | Maine | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 8.7 | 7.4 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $4.2M | $5.2M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 603 | 588 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | −2.2% | +1.8% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +3.5% | +3.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,609 | $3,835 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $69,077 | $74,733 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 65 | 62 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 90All limited-service restaurants · −2.2% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 1,419
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $34.3M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 17All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 4712 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 39The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 4
- Amount
- $3.6M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in the Augusta-Waterville 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 Augusta-Waterville area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 129,067+3.5% since 2020
- Households
- 54,312
- Median age
- 43.8
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 74%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.7
- Land area
- 868 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 146
- Median household income
- $69,077+24.8% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $88,742
- Median home value
- $238,200
- Jobs located here
- 65,677
- Daytime population
- 134,017Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Questions
How many pizza places are in the Augusta-Waterville, ME area?
The Augusta-Waterville area has 47 pizza places on map listings as of September 2026. 12 of them (26%) are chain locations. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 90 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in 2023, down 2.2% from 2019. That count covers all limited-service restaurants (fast food and sandwich shops included), not only pizza places. Official counts also show 17 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in the Augusta-Waterville, ME area spend on food away from home?
About $196M a year, or $3,609 per household. That is 11% below the U.S. average (an index of 89, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 47 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $4.2M per pizza place. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places. It is estimated from the incomes of the 54,312 households in the Augusta-Waterville area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Augusta-Waterville, ME area compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
The Augusta-Waterville area has 8.7 pizza places per 10,000 households, 9% above the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $4.2M, 18% below the U.S. figure of $5.1M. At the national ratio of pizza places to household spending, the Augusta-Waterville area would have about 39, against 47 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 603 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S. The official count fell 2.2% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.1% for the U.S.
How fast is the Augusta-Waterville, ME area growing?
Population estimates put the Augusta-Waterville area at 129,067 people in 2025, up 3.5% since 2020, in step with the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 54,312 households. The median household income in the Augusta-Waterville area is $69,077 a year, 14% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 24.8% 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. 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 Augusta-Waterville area scores 65 for pizza places (upper middle), #116 of 520 scored small-town markets.
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