Food and drink · Small-town market · Oklahoma
Pizza places in the Elk City, OK area
How the Elk City, OK 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 32 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #438 of 520 scored small-town markets
#12 of 17 scored small-town markets based in Oklahoma
- Listings
- 6
- 5 chain locations (83%)
- Official establishments
- 21
- All limited-service restaurants · −8.7% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $25.9M
- On food away from home · $3,163 a household
- Spending per listing
- $4.3M
- 15% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 7.3
- 9% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 22,159
- −0.7% since 2020
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What this means
For pizza places, the Elk City area has a Groundwork market score of 32 (lower middle): #438 of 520 scored small-town markets and #12 of 17 scored small-town markets based in Oklahoma. That puts it in the bottom quarter of small-town markets.
Map listings as of September 2026 show 6 pizza places in the Elk City area. 5 of them (83%) are chain locations, against 58% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 7.3, 9% below the U.S. rate of 8.0.
Household spending on food away from home in the Elk City area comes to about $25.9M a year: $3,163 per household, 22% below the U.S. average. That works out to $4.3M per pizza place, 15% 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.
Official counts show 21 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in the Elk City area in 2023, down 8.7% from 2019. That is one for every 390 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 the Elk City area declined 0.7%, against +3.1% for the U.S.
How the Elk City area compares
The same measures for Oklahoma 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 | Elk City area | Oklahoma | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 7.3 | 8.6 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $4.3M | $4.1M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 390 | 517 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | −8.7% | +0.5% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −0.7% | +4.0% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,163 | $3,519 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $53,328 | $65,039 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 32 | 40 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 21All limited-service restaurants · −8.7% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 467
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $7.6M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 5All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 65 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 5The 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 the Elk City 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 Elk City area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 22,159−0.7% since 2020
- Households
- 8,188
- Median age
- 36.6
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 68%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 902 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 25
- Median household income
- $53,328+5.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $73,431
- Median home value
- $143,500
- Jobs located here
- 8,119
- Daytime population
- 22,638Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Oklahoma market ranked →The highest-scoring small-town markets in Oklahoma for pizza places, numbered among those based in Oklahoma, with the Elk City area marked.
Top small-town markets in Oklahoma
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Bartlesville, OK | 64 | 17 | 8.1 | $4.3M | +2.7% | #125 of 520 |
| 2Tahlequah, OK | 56 | 15 | 8.0 | $3.9M | +4.5% | #194 of 520 |
| 3Durant, OK | 56 | 16 | 8.7 | $3.7M | +10.9% | #198 of 520 |
| 4Ada, OK | 55 | 10 | 6.6 | $5.1M | +1.2% | #205 of 520 |
| 5Duncan, OK | 53 | 19 | 10.8 | $3.1M | +3.4% | #229 of 520 |
| 6Stillwater, OK | 48 | 24 | 7.4 | $4.3M | +2.8% | #273 of 520 |
| 7Weatherford, OK | 47 | 9 | 5.9 | $5.6M | −0.7% | #285 of 520 |
| 8Shawnee, OK | 43 | 25 | 9.3 | $3.5M | +3.5% | #321 of 520 |
| 9Miami, OK | 36 | 16 | 13.4 | $2.2M | +0.7% | #406 of 520 |
| 10Altus, OK | 35 | 10 | 10.2 | $3.3M | +0.1% | #411 of 520 |
| 12Elk City, OK | 32 | 6 | 7.3 | $4.3M | −0.7% | #438 of 520 |
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Questions
How many pizza places are in the Elk City, OK area?
There are 6 pizza places on map listings in the Elk City area as of September 2026. 5 of them (83%) are chain locations. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 21 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in 2023, down 8.7% from 2019. That count covers all limited-service restaurants (fast food and sandwich shops included), not only pizza places. Another 5 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.
How much do households in the Elk City, OK area spend on food away from home?
About $25.9M a year, or $3,163 per household. That is 22% below the U.S. average (an index of 78, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 6 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $4.3M per pizza place. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places. It is estimated from the incomes of the 8,188 households in the Elk City area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Elk City, OK area compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
The Elk City area has 7.3 pizza places per 10,000 households, 9% below the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $4.3M, 15% below the U.S. figure of $5.1M. At the national ratio of pizza places to household spending, the Elk City area would have about 5, against 6 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 390 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S. The official count fell 8.7% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.1% for the U.S.
How fast is the Elk City, OK area growing?
Population estimates put the Elk City area at 22,159 people in 2025, down 0.7% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 8,188 households. The median household income in the Elk City area is $53,328 a year, 34% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 5.1% from the 2015–2019 survey, 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 Elk City area scores 32 for pizza places (lower middle), #438 of 520 scored small-town markets.
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