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Pizza places in Kings County, NY
How Kings County, NY compares with other counties and the U.S. for pizza places: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 52 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #928 of 2,090 scored counties
#21 of 58 scored counties in New York
- Listings
- 712
- 173 chain locations (24%)
- Official establishments
- 2,250
- All limited-service restaurants · 0.0% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $4.2B
- On food away from home · $4,164 a household
- Spending per listing
- $5.9M
- 16% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 7.1
- 11% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 2,653,963
- −2.5% since 2020
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What this means
Household spending on food away from home in Kings County comes to about $4.2B a year: $4,164 per household, 2% above the U.S. average. Spread across 712 pizza places, that is $5.9M per pizza place, 16% above the U.S. figure of $5.1M. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places.
Kings County has 712 pizza places on map listings as of September 2026. 173 of them (24%) are chain locations, against 58% across the U.S. That comes to 7.1 for every 10,000 households, 11% below the U.S. rate of 8.0.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in Kings County was 2,250 in 2023, unchanged from 2019. That is one for every 449 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 list 671 one-person businesses without payroll. Since fiscal 2022, 39 SBA-backed loans worth $14.2M have gone to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in Kings County.
Population estimates show Kings County declined 2.5% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S. Kings County scores 52 (upper middle) on the Groundwork market score for pizza places, ranking #928 of 2,090 scored counties and #21 of 58 scored counties in New York.
How Kings County compares
The same measures for New York 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 | Kings County | New York | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 7.1 | 8.9 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $5.9M | $4.8M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 449 | 433 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | 0.0% | −0.8% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −2.5% | −0.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $4,164 | $4,270 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $80,263 | $85,974 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 52 | 35 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 2,249 → 2,250All limited-service restaurants · 0.0% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 17,453
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $456.6M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 671All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 712173 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 828The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 39
- Amount
- $14.2M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in Kings 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 Kings County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 2,653,963−2.5% since 2020
- Households
- 1,009,927
- Median age
- 37.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 30%
- Vehicles per household
- 0.6
- Land area
- 69 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 37,927
- Median household income
- $80,263+33.3% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $123,376
- Median home value
- $905,000
- Jobs located here
- 883,599
- Daytime population
- 2,304,140Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in New York
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Saratoga County, NY | 71 | 89 | 8.7 | $5.2M | +2.3% | #284 of 2,090 |
| 2Orleans County, NY | 68 | 8 | 4.9 | $7M | −0.5% | #361 of 2,090 |
| 3Lewis County, NY | 67 | 6 | 5.4 | $6.4M | −0.3% | #395 of 2,090 |
| 4Tioga County, NY | 65 | 14 | 6.9 | $5.4M | −1.9% | #479 of 2,090 |
| 5Westchester County, NY | 64 | 312 | 8.4 | $6.1M | +1.4% | #503 of 2,090 |
| 6Seneca County, NY | 61 | 7 | 5.1 | $6.9M | −1.7% | #603 of 2,090 |
| 7St. Lawrence County, NY | 59 | 21 | 5.0 | $6.8M | −2.5% | #670 of 2,090 |
| 8Putnam County, NY | 59 | 34 | 9.6 | $5.3M | +1.4% | #682 of 2,090 |
| 9Nassau County, NY | 58 | 403 | 8.8 | $6.3M | +0.6% | #704 of 2,090 |
| 10Rockland County, NY | 58 | 104 | 10.0 | $4.8M | +5.9% | #723 of 2,090 |
| 21Kings County, NY | 52 | 712 | 7.1 | $5.9M | −2.5% | #928 of 2,090 |
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Questions
How many pizza places are in Kings County, NY?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 712 pizza places in Kings County. 173 of them (24%) are chain locations. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 2,250 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in 2023, unchanged 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 also show 671 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Kings County, NY spend on food away from home?
About $4.2B a year, or $4,164 per household. That is 2% above the U.S. average (an index of 102, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 712 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $5.9M 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 1,009,927 households in Kings County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Kings County, NY compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
Kings County has 7.1 pizza places per 10,000 households, 11% below the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $5.9M, 16% above the U.S. figure of $5.1M. At the U.S. ratio of pizza places to household spending, Kings County would have about 828, against 712 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 449 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S. The official count held level from 2019 to 2023, against +6.1% for the U.S.
How fast is Kings County, NY growing?
Population estimates put Kings County at 2,653,963 people in 2025, down 2.5% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 1,009,927 households. Median household income in Kings County is $80,263, in line with the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 33.3%, 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. Kings County scores 52 for pizza places (upper middle), #928 of 2,090 scored counties.
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