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Pizza places in Claiborne County, TN

How Claiborne 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 44 out of 100: Lower middle

Ranked #1,288 of 2,090 scored counties
#48 of 70 scored counties in Tennessee

Listings
16
15 chain locations (94%)
Official establishments
13
All limited-service restaurants
Household spending a year
$41.7M
On food away from home · $3,038 a household
Spending per listing
$2.6M
49% below the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
11.7
46% above the U.S.
Population, 2025
33,229
+3.6% since 2020

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Survey estimates 2020–2024 · population estimates 2025 · official business counts 2023 · map listings September 2026 · Data credits · How we measure

What this means

Household spending on food away from home in Claiborne County comes to about $41.7M a year: $3,038 per household, 25% below the U.S. average. That is about $2.6M of household spending for each pizza place on map listings, 49% below the U.S. figure of $5.1M. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places.

Claiborne County has 16 pizza places on map listings as of September 2026. Of those, 15 are chain locations, or 94%, against 58% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 11.7, 46% above the U.S. rate of 8.0.

In 2023, official counts showed 13 businesses with payroll in Claiborne County classed as limited-service restaurants. That is one for every 1,056 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 $57K has gone to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in Claiborne County.

Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Claiborne County grew 3.6%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). The Groundwork market score for pizza places in Claiborne County is 44 (lower middle), #1,288 of 2,090 scored counties and #48 of 70 scored counties in Tennessee.

How Claiborne 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.

Pizza in Claiborne County, TN compared with Tennessee and the U.S.
MeasureClaiborne CountyTennesseeU.S.
Listings per 10k households11.77.28.0
Spending per listing$2.6M$5.1M$5.1M
Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants)1,056492478
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023n/a+6.2%+6.1%
Population growth, 2020–2025+3.6%+5.6%+3.1%
Spending per household on food away from home$3,038$3,670$4,070
Median household income$49,379$69,595$80,734
Groundwork market score4448

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
16 → 13All limited-service restaurants
Employees, 2023
325
Annual payroll, 2023
$5.7M
One-person businesses, 2023
0All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
Map listings, September 2026
1615 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
8The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here

SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022

Loans
1
Amount
$57K

SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in Claiborne 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 Claiborne County

Population, 2025 estimate
33,229+3.6% since 2020
Households
13,724
Median age
43.3
Homes lived in by their owners
72%
Vehicles per household
2.1
Land area
435 sq. mi.
People per square mile
75
Median household income
$49,379+34.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$68,389
Median home value
$159,900
Jobs located here
8,786
Daytime population
28,737Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Pizza across Tennessee

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The highest-scoring counties in Tennessee for pizza places, numbered among those based in Tennessee, with Claiborne County marked.

Top counties in Tennessee

Counties in Tennessee ranked for pizza places by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1Fayette County, TN9074.1$9.9M+7.7%#12 of 2,090
2Loudon County, TN85135.4$7.4M+15.6%#38 of 2,090
3Sumner County, TN81496.2$6.6M+9.2%#67 of 2,090
4Bedford County, TN7973.6$9.7M+9.7%#92 of 2,090
5Franklin County, TN7874.0$8.5M+6.4%#113 of 2,090
6Marshall County, TN7775.1$7.1M+10.5%#131 of 2,090
7Cheatham County, TN77106.1$6.5M+4.1%#135 of 2,090
8Blount County, TN77335.9$6.4M+6.0%#137 of 2,090
9Tipton County, TN76125.3$6.9M+2.0%#154 of 2,090
10Williamson County, TN74687.4$7.2M+9.0%#185 of 2,090
48Claiborne County, TN441611.7$2.6M+3.6%#1,288 of 2,090

Other business types in Claiborne County

Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.

Questions

How many pizza places are in Claiborne County, TN?

Map listings as of September 2026 show 16 pizza places in Claiborne County. 15 of them (94%) are chain locations. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 13 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 Claiborne County, TN spend on food away from home?

About $41.7M a year, or $3,038 per household. That is 25% below the U.S. average (an index of 75, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 16 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $2.6M 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 13,724 households in Claiborne County and national spending patterns by income.

How does Claiborne County, TN compare with the U.S. for pizza places?

Claiborne County has 11.7 pizza places per 10,000 households, 46% above the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $2.6M, 49% below the U.S. figure of $5.1M. At the U.S. ratio of pizza places to household spending, Claiborne County would have about 8, against 16 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,056 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S.

How fast is Claiborne County, TN growing?

Population estimates put Claiborne County at 33,229 people in 2025, up 3.6% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 13,724 households. Median household income in Claiborne County is $49,379, 39% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 34.1%, 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. Claiborne County scores 44 for pizza places (lower middle), #1,288 of 2,090 scored counties.

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