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Pizza places in Leake County, MS
How Leake County, MS compares with other counties and the U.S. for pizza places: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 4.
- Listings
- 4
- 2 chain locations (50%)
- Official establishments
- 16
- All limited-service restaurants
- Household spending a year
- $22M
- On food away from home · $2,966 a household
- Spending per listing
- $5.5M
- 8% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 5.4
- 32% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 21,662
- +1.9% since 2020
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What this means
At $2,966 per household (27% below the U.S. average), households in Leake County spend about $22M a year on food away from home. Spread across 4 pizza places, that is $5.5M per pizza place, 8% above the U.S. figure of $5.1M. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places.
Leake County has 4 pizza places on map listings as of September 2026. Per 10,000 households, that is 5.4, 32% below the U.S. rate of 8.0.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in Leake County was 16 in 2023. That is one for every 463 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. Official counts also show 3 one-person businesses without payroll. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $500K has gone to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in Leake County.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Leake County grew 1.9%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). With 4 pizza places on map listings, Leake County isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How Leake County compares
The same measures for Mississippi 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 | Leake County | Mississippi | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 5.4 | 5.6 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $5.5M | $5.9M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 463 | 459 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +7.1% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +1.9% | −0.1% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $2,966 | $3,288 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $50,728 | $56,447 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 34 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 16 → 16All limited-service restaurants
- Employees, 2023
- 369
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $4.1M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 3All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 42 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 4The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $500K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in Leake 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 Leake County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 21,662+1.9% since 2020
- Households
- 7,414
- Median age
- 39.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 77%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 583 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 37
- Median household income
- $50,728+36.8% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $66,129
- Median home value
- $116,800
- Jobs located here
- 5,452
- Daytime population
- 17,874Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Mississippi
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Pearl River County, MS | 69 | 9 | 4.1 | $8M | +5.6% | #328 of 2,090 |
| 2Marshall County, MS | 66 | 7 | 5.3 | $6M | +2.6% | #440 of 2,090 |
| 3Madison County, MS | 65 | 27 | 6.1 | $6.7M | +6.5% | #470 of 2,090 |
| 4Hancock County, MS | 64 | 9 | 4.4 | $8.1M | +1.6% | #497 of 2,090 |
| 5Jackson County, MS | 63 | 36 | 6.2 | $5.7M | +3.0% | #542 of 2,090 |
| 6George County, MS | 61 | 5 | 5.4 | $6.3M | +8.1% | #606 of 2,090 |
| 7DeSoto County, MS | 59 | 54 | 7.6 | $5.2M | +6.3% | #684 of 2,090 |
| 8Panola County, MS | 53 | 5 | 4.1 | $7.5M | −1.4% | #883 of 2,090 |
| 9Tishomingo County, MS | 52 | 5 | 5.7 | $5.6M | −1.1% | #929 of 2,090 |
| 10Lamar County, MS | 52 | 18 | 7.1 | $5.2M | +4.7% | #936 of 2,090 |
| Leake County, MS | Not scored | 4 | 5.4 | $5.5M | +1.9% |
Other business types in Leake 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 Leake County, MS?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 4 pizza places in Leake County. 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. Another 3 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.
How much do households in Leake County, MS spend on food away from home?
About $22M a year, or $2,966 per household. That is 27% below the U.S. average (an index of 73, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 4 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $5.5M 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 7,414 households in Leake County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Leake County, MS compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
Leake County has 5.4 pizza places per 10,000 households, 32% below the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $5.5M, 8% 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 463 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S.
How fast is Leake County, MS growing?
Population estimates put Leake County at 21,662 people in 2025, up 1.9% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 7,414 households. Median household income in Leake County is $50,728, 37% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 36.8%, 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. Leake County has no market score for pizza places: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 4.
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