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Pizza places in St. Clair County, MI
How St. Clair County, MI compares with other counties and the U.S. for pizza places: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 64 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #505 of 2,090 scored counties
#16 of 68 scored counties in Michigan
- Listings
- 44
- 32 chain locations (73%)
- Official establishments
- 105
- All limited-service restaurants · +18.0% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $253.9M
- On food away from home · $3,744 a household
- Spending per listing
- $5.8M
- 14% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 6.5
- 19% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 160,486
- +0.1% since 2020
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What this means
At $3,744 per household (8% below the U.S. average), households in St. Clair County spend about $253.9M a year on food away from home. That is about $5.8M of household spending for each pizza place on map listings, 14% above the U.S. figure of $5.1M. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places.
St. Clair County has 44 pizza places on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 73% of them, against 58% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 6.5, 19% below the U.S. rate of 8.0.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in St. Clair County was 105 in 2023, up 18.0% from 2019. That is one for every 646 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 23 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $280K has gone to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in St. Clair County.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of St. Clair County grew 0.1%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). For pizza places, St. Clair County has a Groundwork market score of 64 (upper middle): #505 of 2,090 scored counties and #16 of 68 scored counties in Michigan. That puts it in the top quarter of counties.
How St. Clair County compares
The same measures for Michigan 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. Clair County | Michigan | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 6.5 | 8.3 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $5.8M | $4.7M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 646 | 514 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +18.0% | +7.8% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +0.1% | +0.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,744 | $3,875 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $71,270 | $72,875 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 64 | 39 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 89 → 105All limited-service restaurants · +18.0% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 2,125
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $34.4M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 23All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 4432 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 50The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $280K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in St. Clair 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 St. Clair County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 160,486+0.1% since 2020
- Households
- 67,816
- Median age
- 44.6
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 81%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.8
- Land area
- 722 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 222
- Median household income
- $71,270+25.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $90,621
- Median home value
- $224,600
- Jobs located here
- 41,623
- Daytime population
- 129,372Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Michigan
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Leelanau County, MI | 80 | 7 | 7.3 | $6.3M | +3.0% | #87 of 2,090 |
| 2Cass County, MI | 78 | 10 | 4.7 | $8.1M | +0.2% | #115 of 2,090 |
| 3Clinton County, MI | 78 | 20 | 6.3 | $6.7M | +1.6% | #119 of 2,090 |
| 4Ottawa County, MI | 73 | 87 | 7.8 | $5.5M | +3.9% | #227 of 2,090 |
| 5Barry County, MI | 73 | 19 | 7.8 | $5M | +2.2% | #229 of 2,090 |
| 6Livingston County, MI | 72 | 62 | 8.1 | $5.8M | +1.7% | #254 of 2,090 |
| 7Allegan County, MI | 71 | 34 | 7.5 | $5.4M | +2.1% | #280 of 2,090 |
| 8Cheboygan County, MI | 70 | 5 | 4.5 | $7.8M | +0.9% | #297 of 2,090 |
| 9Newaygo County, MI | 70 | 12 | 6.1 | $5.7M | +3.1% | #312 of 2,090 |
| 10Osceola County, MI | 68 | 5 | 5.3 | $6.2M | +2.7% | #366 of 2,090 |
| 16St. Clair County, MI | 64 | 44 | 6.5 | $5.8M | +0.1% | #505 of 2,090 |
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Questions
How many pizza places are in St. Clair County, MI?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 44 pizza places in St. Clair County. 32 of them (73%) are chain locations. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 105 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in 2023, up 18.0% from 2019. The official count takes in all limited-service restaurants, not only pizza places: fast food and sandwich shops are counted too. Official counts list 23 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in St. Clair County, MI spend on food away from home?
About $253.9M a year, or $3,744 per household. That is 8% below the U.S. average (an index of 92, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 44 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $5.8M 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 67,816 households in St. Clair County and national spending patterns by income.
How does St. Clair County, MI compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
St. Clair County has 6.5 pizza places per 10,000 households, 19% below the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $5.8M, 14% above the U.S. figure of $5.1M. At the U.S. ratio of pizza places to household spending, St. Clair County would have about 50, against 44 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 646 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S. The official count rose 18.0% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.1% for the U.S.
How fast is St. Clair County, MI growing?
Population estimates put St. Clair County at 160,486 people in 2025, up 0.1% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 67,816 households. Median household income in St. Clair County is $71,270, 12% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 25.1%, 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. Clair County scores 64 for pizza places (upper middle), #505 of 2,090 scored counties.
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