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Pizza places in Carter County, MO
How Carter County, MO compares with other counties and the U.S. for pizza places: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
- Listings
- 6
- 6 chain locations (100%)
- Official establishments
- 3
- All limited-service restaurants
- Household spending a year
- $6.2M
- On food away from home · $3,026 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1M
- 80% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 29.4
- 3.7 times the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 5,418
- +4.2% since 2020
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 6 pizza places in Carter County. All of them are chain locations, against 58% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 29.4, 3.7 times the U.S. rate of 8.0.
Household spending on food away from home in Carter County comes to about $6.2M a year: $3,026 per household, 26% below the U.S. average. Spread across 6 pizza places, that is $1M per pizza place, 80% below the U.S. figure of $5.1M. That spending covers all food away from home, which pizza places share with other businesses in the trade.
In 2023, official counts showed 3 businesses with payroll in Carter County classed as limited-service restaurants. That is one for every 679 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S. The official count takes in all limited-service restaurants, not only pizza places: fast food and sandwich shops are counted too.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Carter County grew 4.2%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). Counties under 10,000 people aren’t given a market score, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
How Carter County compares
The same measures for Missouri 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 | Carter County | Missouri | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 29.4 | 9.9 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $1M | $3.8M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 679 | 521 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +8.4% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +4.2% | +1.9% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,026 | $3,799 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $50,000 | $70,702 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 32 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 4 → 3All limited-service restaurants
- Employees, 2023
- 33
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $757K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 66 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 1The 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 Carter 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 Carter County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 5,418+4.2% since 2020
- Households
- 2,038
- Median age
- 40.9
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 61%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 507 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 10
- Median household income
- $50,000
- Average household income
- $63,722
- Median home value
- $159,400
- Jobs located here
- 1,403
- Daytime population
- 4,806Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Missouri
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Platte County, MO | 77 | 33 | 7.5 | $6M | +6.7% | #143 of 2,090 |
| 2Warren County, MO | 73 | 13 | 9.4 | $4.3M | +9.2% | #234 of 2,090 |
| 3St. Charles County, MO | 71 | 123 | 7.6 | $6.1M | +4.9% | #273 of 2,090 |
| 4Cass County, MO | 71 | 37 | 8.6 | $4.9M | +7.1% | #290 of 2,090 |
| 5Lincoln County, MO | 71 | 25 | 11.0 | $3.7M | +11.4% | #294 of 2,090 |
| 6Ste. Genevieve County, MO | 69 | 5 | 7.0 | $5.3M | +1.1% | #350 of 2,090 |
| 7Ray County, MO | 66 | 7 | 7.7 | $4.9M | +1.1% | #457 of 2,090 |
| 8Jefferson County, MO | 65 | 74 | 8.4 | $4.8M | +2.7% | #484 of 2,090 |
| 9Christian County, MO | 65 | 35 | 10.0 | $4M | +8.3% | #493 of 2,090 |
| 10Clay County, MO | 63 | 81 | 7.9 | $5.3M | +4.3% | #551 of 2,090 |
| Carter County, MO | Not scored | 6 | 29.4 | $1M | +4.2% |
Other business types in Carter County
None has a Groundwork market score here. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
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Questions
How many pizza places are in Carter County, MO?
Carter County has 6 pizza places on map listings as of September 2026. 6 of them (100%) are chain locations. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 3 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in 2023. That count covers all limited-service restaurants (fast food and sandwich shops included), not only pizza places.
How much do households in Carter County, MO spend on food away from home?
About $6.2M a year, or $3,026 per household. That is 26% below the U.S. average (an index of 74, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 6 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $1M per pizza place. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places. It is estimated from the incomes of the 2,038 households in Carter County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Carter County, MO compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
Carter County has 29.4 pizza places per 10,000 households, 3.7 times the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $1M, 80% below the U.S. figure of $5.1M. At the national ratio of pizza places to household spending, Carter County would have about 1, against 6 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 679 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S.
How fast is Carter County, MO growing?
Population estimates put Carter County at 5,418 people in 2025, up 4.2% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 2,038 households. The median household income in Carter County is $50,000 a year, 38% 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. 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 score leaves out counties under 10,000 people, where a handful of businesses would swing it.
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