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Pizza places in Waldo County, ME
The pizza places in Waldo County, ME, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other counties.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 69 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #351 of 2,090 scored counties
#5 of 16 scored counties in Maine
- Listings
- 12
- 1 chain location (8%)
- Official establishments
- 20
- All limited-service restaurants
- Household spending a year
- $63.2M
- On food away from home · $3,620 a household
- Spending per listing
- $5.3M
- 4% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 6.9
- 14% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 40,693
- +2.6% since 2020
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What this means
At $3,620 per household (11% below the U.S. average), households in Waldo County spend about $63.2M a year on food away from home. That is about $5.3M of household spending for each pizza place on map listings, 4% above the U.S. figure of $5.1M. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places.
Waldo County has 12 pizza places on map listings as of September 2026. One of them (8%) is a chain location, against 58% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 6.9, 14% below the U.S. rate of 8.0.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in Waldo County was 20 in 2023. That is one for every 874 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 Waldo County grew 2.6% from 2020 to 2025, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). The Groundwork market score for pizza places in Waldo County is 69 (upper middle), #351 of 2,090 scored counties and #5 of 16 scored counties in Maine. That puts it in the top quarter of counties.
How Waldo County 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 | Waldo County | Maine | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 6.9 | 7.4 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $5.3M | $5.2M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 874 | 588 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +1.8% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +2.6% | +3.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,620 | $3,835 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $72,782 | $74,733 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 69 | 62 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 19 → 20All limited-service restaurants
- Employees, 2023
- 153
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $4.5M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 121 chain location
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 12The 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 Waldo 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 Waldo County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 40,693+2.6% since 2020
- Households
- 17,470
- Median age
- 46.6
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 82%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 730 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 55
- Median household income
- $72,782+40.2% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $91,541
- Median home value
- $257,700
- Jobs located here
- 11,338
- Daytime population
- 35,620Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Maine
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Sagadahoc County, ME | 77 | 11 | 6.7 | $6M | +3.4% | #142 of 2,090 |
| 2Lincoln County, ME | 69 | 10 | 6.0 | $6.4M | +3.8% | #335 of 2,090 |
| 3Cumberland County, ME | 69 | 104 | 7.9 | $5.6M | +4.5% | #345 of 2,090 |
| 4Penobscot County, ME | 69 | 44 | 6.7 | $5.3M | +3.8% | #349 of 2,090 |
| 5Waldo County, ME | 69 | 12 | 6.9 | $5.3M | +2.6% | #351 of 2,090 |
| 6Oxford County, ME | 68 | 15 | 6.2 | $5.5M | +4.2% | #372 of 2,090 |
| 7York County, ME | 66 | 76 | 8.3 | $5M | +4.8% | #456 of 2,090 |
| 8Piscataquis County, ME | 63 | 6 | 7.2 | $4.6M | +3.5% | #559 of 2,090 |
| 9Washington County, ME | 62 | 7 | 4.9 | $6.6M | +0.8% | #574 of 2,090 |
| 10Somerset County, ME | 62 | 14 | 6.0 | $5.4M | +2.3% | #583 of 2,090 |
Other business types in Waldo 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 Waldo County, ME?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 12 pizza places in Waldo County. One of them (8%) is a chain location. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 20 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 Waldo County, ME spend on food away from home?
About $63.2M a year, or $3,620 per household. That is 11% below the U.S. average (an index of 89, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 12 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $5.3M 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 17,470 households in Waldo County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Waldo County, ME compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
Waldo County has 6.9 pizza places per 10,000 households, 14% below the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $5.3M, 4% above the U.S. figure of $5.1M. The count on map listings matches the U.S. ratio of pizza places to household spending. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 874 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S.
How fast is Waldo County, ME growing?
Population estimates put Waldo County at 40,693 people in 2025, up 2.6% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 17,470 households. Median household income in Waldo County is $72,782, 10% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 40.2%, 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. Waldo County scores 69 for pizza places (upper middle), #351 of 2,090 scored counties.
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