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Food and drink · Small-town market · New Hampshire

Pizza places in the Laconia, NH area

How the Laconia, NH area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for pizza places: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.

Groundwork market score · out of 100

Score 69 out of 100: Upper middle

Ranked #79 of 520 scored small-town markets
#3 of 4 scored small-town markets based in New Hampshire

Listings
18
7 chain locations (39%)
Official establishments
58
All limited-service restaurants · +7.4% since 2019
Household spending a year
$111.9M
On food away from home · $4,248 a household
Spending per listing
$6.2M
22% above the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
6.8
15% below the U.S.
Population, 2025
65,147
+2.1% since 2020

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Survey estimates 2020–2024 · population estimates 2025 · official business counts 2023 · map listings September 2026 · Data credits · How we measure

What this means

Household spending on food away from home in the Laconia area comes to about $111.9M a year: $4,248 per household, 4% above the U.S. average. That works out to $6.2M per pizza place, 22% above the U.S. figure of $5.1M. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places.

The Laconia area has 18 pizza places on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 39% of them, against 58% across the U.S. That comes to 6.8 for every 10,000 households, 15% below the U.S. rate of 8.0.

In 2023, official counts showed 58 businesses with payroll in the Laconia area classed as limited-service restaurants, up 7.4% from 2019. That is one for every 454 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 6 one-person businesses without payroll. Since fiscal 2022, 3 SBA-backed loans worth $8M have gone to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in the Laconia area.

Population estimates put the population change in the Laconia area from 2020 to 2025 at +2.1%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). The Laconia area scores 69 (upper middle) on the Groundwork market score for pizza places, ranking #79 of 520 scored small-town markets and #3 of 4 scored small-town markets based in New Hampshire. That puts it in the top quarter of small-town markets.

How the Laconia area compares

The same measures for New Hampshire 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.

Pizza in Laconia, NH area compared with New Hampshire and the U.S.
MeasureLaconia areaNew HampshireU.S.
Listings per 10k households6.810.58.0
Spending per listing$6.2M$4.3M$5.1M
Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants)454518478
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023+7.4%+0.1%+6.1%
Population growth, 2020–2025+2.1%+2.7%+3.1%
Spending per household on food away from home$4,248$4,493$4,070
Median household income$92,783$99,031$80,734
Groundwork market score6953

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
58All limited-service restaurants · +7.4% over the period
Employees, 2023
715
Annual payroll, 2023
$17.3M
One-person businesses, 2023
6All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
Map listings, September 2026
187 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
22The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here

SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022

Loans
3
Amount
$8M

SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in the Laconia 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 Laconia area

Population, 2025 estimate
65,147+2.1% since 2020
Households
26,337
Median age
48.0
Homes lived in by their owners
80%
Vehicles per household
1.9
Land area
402 sq. mi.
People per square mile
161
Median household income
$92,783+33.6% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$116,878
Median home value
$374,900
Jobs located here
26,593
Daytime population
60,550Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Pizza across New Hampshire

Every New Hampshire market ranked →

The highest-scoring small-town markets in New Hampshire for pizza places, numbered among those based in New Hampshire, with the Laconia area marked.

Top small-town markets in New Hampshire

Small-town markets in New Hampshire ranked for pizza places by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1Keene, NH74299.5$4.2M+2.3%#51 of 520
2Concord, NH71589.5$4.6M+2.6%#69 of 520
3Laconia, NH69186.8$6.2M+2.1%#79 of 520
4Lebanon-Claremont, NH-VT69818.8$4.6M+1.5%#85 of 520

Other business types in the Laconia area

Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.

Questions

How many pizza places are in the Laconia, NH area?

Map listings as of September 2026 show 18 pizza places in the Laconia area. 7 of them (39%) are chain locations. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 58 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in 2023, up 7.4% from 2019. The official count takes in all limited-service restaurants, not only pizza places: fast food and sandwich shops are counted too. Another 6 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.

How much do households in the Laconia, NH area spend on food away from home?

About $111.9M a year, or $4,248 per household. That is 4% above the U.S. average (an index of 104, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 18 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $6.2M 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 26,337 households in the Laconia area and national spending patterns by income.

How does the Laconia, NH area compare with the U.S. for pizza places?

The Laconia area has 6.8 pizza places per 10,000 households, 15% below the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $6.2M, 22% above the U.S. figure of $5.1M. At the U.S. ratio of pizza places to household spending, the Laconia area would have about 22, against 18 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 454 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S. The official count rose 7.4% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.1% for the U.S.

How fast is the Laconia, NH area growing?

Population estimates put the Laconia area at 65,147 people in 2025, up 2.1% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 26,337 households. Median household income in the Laconia area is $92,783, 15% above the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 33.6%, 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. 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 Laconia area scores 69 for pizza places (upper middle), #79 of 520 scored small-town markets.

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