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Pizza places in Cheatham County, TN
How Cheatham County, TN 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 77 out of 100: High
Ranked #135 of 2,090 scored counties
#7 of 70 scored counties in Tennessee
- Listings
- 10
- 5 chain locations (50%)
- Official establishments
- 26
- All limited-service restaurants · +4.0% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $64.6M
- On food away from home · $3,971 a household
- Spending per listing
- $6.5M
- 27% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 6.1
- 24% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 42,778
- +4.1% since 2020
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What this means
For pizza places, Cheatham County has a Groundwork market score of 77 (high): #135 of 2,090 scored counties and #7 of 70 scored counties in Tennessee. That puts it in the top 10% of counties for pizza places.
At $3,971 per household (2% below the U.S. average), households in Cheatham County spend about $64.6M a year on food away from home. Spread across 10 pizza places, that is $6.5M per pizza place, 27% above the U.S. figure of $5.1M. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places.
Cheatham County has 10 pizza places on map listings as of September 2026. Of those, 5 are chain locations, or 50%, against 58% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 6.1, 24% below the U.S. rate of 8.0.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in Cheatham County was 26 in 2023, up 4.0% from 2019. That is one for every 626 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. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $53K has gone to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in Cheatham County. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Cheatham County grew 4.1%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How Cheatham County compares
The same measures for Tennessee 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 | Cheatham County | Tennessee | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 6.1 | 7.2 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $6.5M | $5.1M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 626 | 492 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +4.0% | +6.2% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +4.1% | +5.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,971 | $3,670 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $89,852 | $69,595 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 77 | 48 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 25 → 26All limited-service restaurants · +4.0% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 567
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $9.9M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 6All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 105 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 13The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $53K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in Cheatham 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 Cheatham County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 42,778+4.1% since 2020
- Households
- 16,279
- Median age
- 41.5
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 82%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.4
- Land area
- 303 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 138
- Median household income
- $89,852+45.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $107,394
- Median home value
- $338,700
- Jobs located here
- 9,356
- Daytime population
- 29,633Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Tennessee
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Fayette County, TN | 90 | 7 | 4.1 | $9.9M | +7.7% | #12 of 2,090 |
| 2Loudon County, TN | 85 | 13 | 5.4 | $7.4M | +15.6% | #38 of 2,090 |
| 3Sumner County, TN | 81 | 49 | 6.2 | $6.6M | +9.2% | #67 of 2,090 |
| 4Bedford County, TN | 79 | 7 | 3.6 | $9.7M | +9.7% | #92 of 2,090 |
| 5Franklin County, TN | 78 | 7 | 4.0 | $8.5M | +6.4% | #113 of 2,090 |
| 6Marshall County, TN | 77 | 7 | 5.1 | $7.1M | +10.5% | #131 of 2,090 |
| 7Cheatham County, TN | 77 | 10 | 6.1 | $6.5M | +4.1% | #135 of 2,090 |
| 8Blount County, TN | 77 | 33 | 5.9 | $6.4M | +6.0% | #137 of 2,090 |
| 9Tipton County, TN | 76 | 12 | 5.3 | $6.9M | +2.0% | #154 of 2,090 |
| 10Williamson County, TN | 74 | 68 | 7.4 | $7.2M | +9.0% | #185 of 2,090 |
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Questions
How many pizza places are in Cheatham County, TN?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 10 pizza places in Cheatham County. 5 of them (50%) are chain locations. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 26 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in 2023, up 4.0% 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 6 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Cheatham County, TN spend on food away from home?
About $64.6M a year, or $3,971 per household. That is 2% below the U.S. average (an index of 98, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 10 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $6.5M 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 16,279 households in Cheatham County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Cheatham County, TN compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
Cheatham County has 6.1 pizza places per 10,000 households, 24% below the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $6.5M, 27% above the U.S. figure of $5.1M. At the U.S. ratio of pizza places to household spending, Cheatham County would have about 13, against 10 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 626 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S. The official count rose 4.0% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.1% for the U.S.
How fast is Cheatham County, TN growing?
Population estimates put Cheatham County at 42,778 people in 2025, up 4.1% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 16,279 households. Median household income in Cheatham County is $89,852, 11% above the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 45.1%, 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. Cheatham County scores 77 for pizza places (high), #135 of 2,090 scored counties.
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