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Pizza places in Merrimack County, NH
The pizza places in Merrimack County, NH, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other counties.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 64 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #518 of 2,090 scored counties
#3 of 10 scored counties in New Hampshire
- Listings
- 58
- 17 chain locations (29%)
- Official establishments
- 107
- All limited-service restaurants · −5.3% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $266M
- On food away from home · $4,368 a household
- Spending per listing
- $4.6M
- 10% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 9.5
- 19% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 158,078
- +2.6% since 2020
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What this means
Household spending on food away from home in Merrimack County comes to about $266M a year: $4,368 per household, 7% above the U.S. average. Spread across 58 pizza places, that is $4.6M per pizza place, 10% below the U.S. figure of $5.1M. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places.
Merrimack County has 58 pizza places on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 29% of them, against 58% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 9.5, 19% above the U.S. rate of 8.0.
Official counts show 107 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in Merrimack County in 2023, down 5.3% from 2019. That is one for every 569 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. Another 31 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts. Since fiscal 2022, 10 SBA-backed loans worth $2.1M have gone to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in Merrimack County.
Population estimates put the population change in Merrimack County from 2020 to 2025 at +2.6%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). For pizza places, Merrimack County has a Groundwork market score of 64 (upper middle): #518 of 2,090 scored counties and #3 of 10 scored counties in New Hampshire. That puts it in the top quarter of counties.
How Merrimack County 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.
| Measure | Merrimack County | New Hampshire | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 9.5 | 10.5 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $4.6M | $4.3M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 569 | 518 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | −5.3% | +0.1% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +2.6% | +2.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $4,368 | $4,493 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $97,004 | $99,031 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 64 | 53 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 113 → 107All limited-service restaurants · −5.3% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 1,699
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $40.7M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 31All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 5817 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 52The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 10
- Amount
- $2.1M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in Merrimack 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 Merrimack County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 158,078+2.6% since 2020
- Households
- 60,901
- Median age
- 43.1
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 73%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 933 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 167
- Median household income
- $97,004+28.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $123,673
- Median home value
- $367,600
- Jobs located here
- 83,058
- Daytime population
- 159,180Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in New Hampshire
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Strafford County, NH | 67 | 43 | 8.3 | $5.2M | +3.0% | #414 of 2,090 |
| 2Cheshire County, NH | 65 | 29 | 9.5 | $4.2M | +2.3% | #490 of 2,090 |
| 3Merrimack County, NH | 64 | 58 | 9.5 | $4.6M | +2.6% | #518 of 2,090 |
| 4Belknap County, NH | 63 | 18 | 6.8 | $6.2M | +2.1% | #538 of 2,090 |
| 5Hillsborough County, NH | 62 | 177 | 10.5 | $4.4M | +2.5% | #592 of 2,090 |
| 6Sullivan County, NH | 53 | 24 | 14.4 | $2.7M | +2.1% | #924 of 2,090 |
| 7Grafton County, NH | 52 | 37 | 10.0 | $4.2M | +2.2% | #950 of 2,090 |
| 8Rockingham County, NH | 52 | 155 | 12.2 | $4.1M | +3.0% | #952 of 2,090 |
| 9Carroll County, NH | 50 | 26 | 11.9 | $3.5M | +5.0% | #1,043 of 2,090 |
| 10Coos County, NH | 37 | 19 | 13.6 | $2.4M | +0.4% | #1,576 of 2,090 |
Other business types in Merrimack County
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Questions
How many pizza places are in Merrimack County, NH?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 58 pizza places in Merrimack County. 17 of them (29%) are chain locations. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 107 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in 2023, down 5.3% from 2019. The official count takes in all limited-service restaurants, not only pizza places: fast food and sandwich shops are counted too. Official counts list 31 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Merrimack County, NH spend on food away from home?
About $266M a year, or $4,368 per household. That is 7% above the U.S. average (an index of 107, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 58 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $4.6M 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 60,901 households in Merrimack County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Merrimack County, NH compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
Merrimack County has 9.5 pizza places per 10,000 households, 19% above the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $4.6M, 10% below the U.S. figure of $5.1M. At the U.S. ratio of pizza places to household spending, Merrimack County would have about 52, against 58 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 569 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S. The official count fell 5.3% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.1% for the U.S.
How fast is Merrimack County, NH growing?
Population estimates put Merrimack County at 158,078 people in 2025, up 2.6% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 60,901 households. Median household income in Merrimack County is $97,004, 20% above the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 28.1%, 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. Merrimack County scores 64 for pizza places (upper middle), #518 of 2,090 scored counties.
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