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Pizza places in Pine County, MN
How Pine County, MN 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 61 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #629 of 2,090 scored counties
#34 of 59 scored counties in Minnesota
- Listings
- 12
- 7 chain locations (58%)
- Official establishments
- 16
- All limited-service restaurants
- Household spending a year
- $44.9M
- On food away from home · $3,647 a household
- Spending per listing
- $3.7M
- 26% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 9.7
- 21% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 30,472
- +5.5% since 2020
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What this means
At $3,647 per household (10% below the U.S. average), households in Pine County spend about $44.9M a year on food away from home. That works out to $3.7M per pizza place, 26% below the U.S. figure of $5.1M. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places.
There are 12 pizza places on map listings in Pine County as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 58% of them, against 58% across the U.S. That comes to 9.7 for every 10,000 households, 21% above the U.S. rate of 8.0.
In 2023, official counts showed 16 businesses with payroll in Pine County classed as limited-service restaurants. That is one for every 770 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.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Pine County grew 5.5%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). The Groundwork market score for pizza places in Pine County is 61 (upper middle), #629 of 2,090 scored counties and #34 of 59 scored counties in Minnesota.
How Pine County 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 | Pine County | Minnesota | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 9.7 | 7.5 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $3.7M | $5.7M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 770 | 600 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +1.9% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +5.5% | +2.1% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,647 | $4,330 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $71,146 | $89,062 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 61 | 70 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 15 → 16All limited-service restaurants
- Employees, 2023
- 251
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $4.7M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 127 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 9The 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 Pine 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 Pine County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 30,472+5.5% since 2020
- Households
- 12,323
- Median age
- 46.6
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 82%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.2
- Land area
- 1,411 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 21
- Median household income
- $71,146+33.2% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $85,014
- Median home value
- $239,300
- Jobs located here
- 7,837
- Daytime population
- 25,047Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Minnesota
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Sherburne County, MN | 92 | 20 | 5.6 | $8.3M | +6.8% | #5 of 2,090 |
| 2Carver County, MN | 86 | 27 | 6.6 | $8M | +6.6% | #28 of 2,090 |
| 3Washington County, MN | 86 | 75 | 7.1 | $7.1M | +6.9% | #32 of 2,090 |
| 4Scott County, MN | 85 | 33 | 6.0 | $8.6M | +5.1% | #35 of 2,090 |
| 5Wright County, MN | 82 | 47 | 8.7 | $5.4M | +11.1% | #62 of 2,090 |
| 6Isanti County, MN | 81 | 12 | 7.4 | $5.5M | +7.3% | #73 of 2,090 |
| 7Dakota County, MN | 79 | 123 | 7.1 | $6.7M | +3.9% | #102 of 2,090 |
| 8Dodge County, MN | 76 | 7 | 8.7 | $5M | +2.3% | #162 of 2,090 |
| 9Goodhue County, MN | 75 | 10 | 5.1 | $7.9M | +1.3% | #164 of 2,090 |
| 10Anoka County, MN | 75 | 108 | 7.9 | $5.8M | +4.7% | #173 of 2,090 |
| 34Pine County, MN | 61 | 12 | 9.7 | $3.7M | +5.5% | #629 of 2,090 |
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Questions
How many pizza places are in Pine County, MN?
As of September 2026, map listings count 12 pizza places in Pine County. 7 of them (58%) are chain locations. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 16 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 Pine County, MN spend on food away from home?
About $44.9M a year, or $3,647 per household. That is 10% below the U.S. average (an index of 90, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 12 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $3.7M 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 12,323 households in Pine County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Pine County, MN compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
Pine County has 9.7 pizza places per 10,000 households, 21% above the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $3.7M, 26% below the U.S. figure of $5.1M. At the U.S. ratio of pizza places to household spending, Pine County would have about 9, against 12 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 770 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S.
How fast is Pine County, MN growing?
Population estimates put Pine County at 30,472 people in 2025, up 5.5% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 12,323 households. Median household income in Pine County is $71,146, 12% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 33.2%, 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. Pine County scores 61 for pizza places (upper middle), #629 of 2,090 scored counties.
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