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Pizza places in Socorro County, NM
How Socorro County, NM 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 3.
- Listings
- 3
- 3 chain locations (100%)
- Official establishments
- 9
- All limited-service restaurants
- Household spending a year
- $14.6M
- On food away from home · $2,762 a household
- Spending per listing
- $4.9M
- 5% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 5.7
- 29% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 15,838
- −4.3% since 2020
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What this means
Household spending on food away from home in Socorro County comes to about $14.6M a year: $2,762 per household, 32% below the U.S. average. That is about $4.9M of household spending for each pizza place on map listings, 5% below the U.S. figure of $5.1M. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places.
There are 3 pizza places on map listings in Socorro County as of September 2026. Per 10,000 households, that is 5.7, 29% below the U.S. rate of 8.0.
In 2023, official counts showed 9 businesses with payroll in Socorro County classed as limited-service restaurants. That is one for every 585 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 Socorro County declined 4.3%, against +3.1% for the U.S. With 3 pizza places on map listings, Socorro County isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How Socorro County compares
The same measures for New Mexico 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 | Socorro County | New Mexico | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 5.7 | 5.9 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $4.9M | $6M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 585 | 507 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +6.8% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −4.3% | +0.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $2,762 | $3,547 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $36,570 | $64,059 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 47 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 8 → 9All limited-service restaurants
- Employees, 2023
- 160
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $3.2M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 33 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 3The 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 Socorro 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 Socorro County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 15,838−4.3% since 2020
- Households
- 5,269
- Median age
- 39.1
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 75%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 6,646 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 2
- Median household income
- $36,570−13.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $63,088
- Median home value
- $137,500
- Jobs located here
- 4,706
- Daytime population
- 14,715Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in New Mexico
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Sandoval County, NM | 87 | 30 | 5.3 | $7.7M | +6.9% | #23 of 2,090 |
| 2Valencia County, NM | 72 | 12 | 4.4 | $7.7M | +7.2% | #241 of 2,090 |
| 3Santa Fe County, NM | 70 | 34 | 4.8 | $8.3M | +1.2% | #296 of 2,090 |
| 4Doña Ana County, NM | 67 | 43 | 5.1 | $6.5M | +4.1% | #394 of 2,090 |
| 5Eddy County, NM | 65 | 12 | 5.1 | $7.6M | +0.3% | #466 of 2,090 |
| 6Otero County, NM | 62 | 16 | 6.5 | $5M | +3.7% | #587 of 2,090 |
| 7Rio Arriba County, NM | 58 | 9 | 5.8 | $5.8M | −1.0% | #710 of 2,090 |
| 8Taos County, NM | 50 | 10 | 6.4 | $5.3M | +0.3% | #1,009 of 2,090 |
| 9Lea County, NM | 49 | 16 | 6.5 | $5.6M | +0.2% | #1,060 of 2,090 |
| 10Bernalillo County, NM | 48 | 170 | 6.0 | $6.2M | −1.4% | #1,097 of 2,090 |
| Socorro County, NM | Not scored | 3 | 5.7 | $4.9M | −4.3% |
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Questions
How many pizza places are in Socorro County, NM?
As of September 2026, map listings count 3 pizza places in Socorro County. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 9 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 Socorro County, NM spend on food away from home?
About $14.6M a year, or $2,762 per household. That is 32% below the U.S. average (an index of 68, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 3 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $4.9M 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 5,269 households in Socorro County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Socorro County, NM compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
Socorro County has 5.7 pizza places per 10,000 households, 29% below the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $4.9M, 5% below 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 585 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S.
How fast is Socorro County, NM growing?
Population estimates put Socorro County at 15,838 people in 2025, down 4.3% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 5,269 households. Median household income in Socorro County is $36,570, 55% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median fell 13.1%, 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. Socorro County has no market score for pizza places: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 3.
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