Food and drink · Small-town market · Minnesota
Pizza places in the Detroit Lakes, MN area
Competitor counts, household spending and official business counts for pizza places in the Detroit Lakes, MN area, set against other small-town markets and the U.S.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 71 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #71 of 520 scored small-town markets
#7 of 18 scored small-town markets based in Minnesota
- Listings
- 13
- 10 chain locations (77%)
- Official establishments
- 18
- All limited-service restaurants
- Household spending a year
- $54.6M
- On food away from home · $3,789 a household
- Spending per listing
- $4.2M
- 17% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 9.0
- 13% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 35,497
- +0.9% since 2020
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What this means
Households in the Detroit Lakes area spend about $54.6M a year on food away from home, or $3,789 per household, 7% below the U.S. average. Spread across 13 pizza places, that is $4.2M per pizza place, 17% below the U.S. figure of $5.1M. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places.
There are 13 pizza places on map listings in the Detroit Lakes area as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 77% of them, against 58% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 9.0, 13% above the U.S. rate of 8.0.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in the Detroit Lakes area was 18 in 2023. That is one for every 801 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. Since fiscal 2022, 4 SBA-backed loans worth $807K have gone to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in the Detroit Lakes area.
Population estimates put the population change in the Detroit Lakes area from 2020 to 2025 at +0.9%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). The Groundwork market score for pizza places in the Detroit Lakes area is 71 (upper middle), #71 of 520 scored small-town markets and #7 of 18 scored small-town markets based in Minnesota. That puts it in the top quarter of small-town markets.
How the Detroit Lakes area compares
The same measures for Minnesota 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 | Detroit Lakes area | Minnesota | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 9.0 | 7.5 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $4.2M | $5.7M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 801 | 600 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +1.9% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +0.9% | +2.1% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,789 | $4,330 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $71,388 | $89,062 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 71 | 70 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 18All limited-service restaurants
- Employees, 2023
- 390
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $8.4M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 1310 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 11The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 4
- Amount
- $807K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in the Detroit Lakes 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 Detroit Lakes area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 35,497+0.9% since 2020
- Households
- 14,410
- Median age
- 43.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 77%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.2
- Land area
- 1,315 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 27
- Median household income
- $71,388
- Average household income
- $100,022
- Median home value
- $291,000
- Jobs located here
- 13,787
- Daytime population
- 33,123Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Minnesota market ranked →The highest-scoring small-town markets in Minnesota for pizza places, numbered among those based in Minnesota (a market based in another state is listed without a number), with the Detroit Lakes area marked.
Top small-town markets in Minnesota
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Austin, MN | 83 | 9 | 5.7 | $6.6M | +2.3% | #10 of 520 |
| 2Red Wing, MN | 81 | 10 | 5.1 | $7.9M | +1.3% | #18 of 520 |
| 3Faribault-Northfield, MN | 77 | 18 | 7.7 | $5.3M | +4.2% | #32 of 520 |
| 4Bemidji, MN | 76 | 12 | 6.6 | $5.6M | +1.8% | #37 of 520 |
| 5Grand Rapids, MN | 74 | 14 | 7.6 | $4.8M | +0.9% | #50 of 520 |
| 6Fergus Falls, MN | 71 | 21 | 8.3 | $4.5M | +1.6% | #70 of 520 |
| 7Detroit Lakes, MN | 71 | 13 | 9.0 | $4.2M | +0.9% | #71 of 520 |
| 8Worthington, MN | 69 | 5 | 6.5 | $5.7M | +0.6% | #82 of 520 |
| Wahpeton, ND-MN | 69 | 9 | 9.5 | $4M | 0.0% | #86 of 520 |
| 9Alexandria, MN | 68 | 18 | 10.3 | $3.8M | +2.6% | #96 of 520 |
Other business types in the Detroit Lakes area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Funeral services
Questions
How many pizza places are in the Detroit Lakes, MN area?
As of September 2026, map listings count 13 pizza places in the Detroit Lakes area. 10 of them (77%) are chain locations. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 18 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 the Detroit Lakes, MN area spend on food away from home?
About $54.6M a year, or $3,789 per household. That is 7% below the U.S. average (an index of 93, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 13 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $4.2M 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 14,410 households in the Detroit Lakes area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Detroit Lakes, MN area compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
The Detroit Lakes area has 9.0 pizza places per 10,000 households, 13% above the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $4.2M, 17% below the U.S. figure of $5.1M. At the U.S. ratio of pizza places to household spending, the Detroit Lakes area would have about 11, against 13 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 801 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S.
How fast is the Detroit Lakes, MN area growing?
Population estimates put the Detroit Lakes area at 35,497 people in 2025, up 0.9% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 14,410 households. Median household income in the Detroit Lakes area is $71,388, 12% below the U.S. median of $80,734.
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 Detroit Lakes area scores 71 for pizza places (upper middle), #71 of 520 scored small-town markets.
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