Food and drink · Small-town market · Tennessee
Pizza places in the Tullahoma-Manchester, TN area
How the Tullahoma-Manchester, TN 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 62 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #134 of 520 scored small-town markets
#8 of 16 scored small-town markets based in Tennessee
- Listings
- 13
- 11 chain locations (85%)
- Official establishments
- 56
- All limited-service restaurants · +24.4% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $84.4M
- On food away from home · $3,268 a household
- Spending per listing
- $6.5M
- 28% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 5.0
- 37% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 69,339
- +7.3% since 2020
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What this means
Household spending on food away from home in the Tullahoma-Manchester area comes to about $84.4M a year: $3,268 per household, 20% below the U.S. average. That works out to $6.5M per pizza place, 28% above the U.S. figure of $5.1M. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places.
The Tullahoma-Manchester area has 13 pizza places on map listings as of September 2026. 11 of them (85%) are chain locations, against 58% across the U.S. That is 5.0 per 10,000 households, 37% below the U.S. rate of 8.0.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in the Tullahoma-Manchester area was 56 in 2023, up 24.4% from 2019. That is one for every 461 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 also show 13 one-person businesses without payroll. Since fiscal 2022, 2 SBA-backed loans worth $448K have gone to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in the Tullahoma-Manchester area.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Tullahoma-Manchester area grew 7.3%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). For pizza places, the Tullahoma-Manchester area has a Groundwork market score of 62 (upper middle): #134 of 520 scored small-town markets and #8 of 16 scored small-town markets based in Tennessee.
How the Tullahoma-Manchester area 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 | Tullahoma-Manchester area | Tennessee | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 5.0 | 7.2 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $6.5M | $5.1M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 461 | 492 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +24.4% | +6.2% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +7.3% | +5.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,268 | $3,670 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $62,285 | $69,595 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 62 | 48 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 56All limited-service restaurants · +24.4% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 1,218
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $23.3M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 13All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 1311 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 17The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 2
- Amount
- $448K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in the Tullahoma-Manchester 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 Tullahoma-Manchester area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 69,339+7.3% since 2020
- Households
- 25,836
- Median age
- 39.8
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 70%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 558 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 119
- Median household income
- $62,285
- Average household income
- $77,589
- Median home value
- $251,500
- Jobs located here
- 28,313
- Daytime population
- 67,636Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Tennessee market ranked →The highest-scoring small-town markets in Tennessee for pizza places, numbered among those based in Tennessee, with the Tullahoma-Manchester area marked.
Top small-town markets in Tennessee
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Winchester, TN | 85 | 7 | 4.0 | $8.5M | +6.4% | #6 of 520 |
| 2Shelbyville, TN | 84 | 7 | 3.6 | $9.7M | +9.7% | #8 of 520 |
| 3Lewisburg, TN | 82 | 7 | 5.1 | $7.1M | +10.5% | #15 of 520 |
| 4Crossville, TN | 76 | 16 | 5.7 | $5.7M | +8.0% | #36 of 520 |
| 5McMinnville, TN | 73 | 7 | 4.3 | $7.3M | +6.5% | #53 of 520 |
| 6Lawrenceburg, TN | 69 | 5 | 2.9 | $10.8M | +6.2% | #75 of 520 |
| 7Athens, TN | 69 | 18 | 6.8 | $4.9M | +8.2% | #84 of 520 |
| 8Tullahoma-Manchester, TN | 62 | 13 | 5.0 | $6.5M | +7.3% | #134 of 520 |
| 9Cookeville, TN | 56 | 44 | 7.5 | $4.3M | +7.6% | #191 of 520 |
| 10Newport, TN | 56 | 13 | 8.4 | $3.5M | +5.1% | #199 of 520 |
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Questions
How many pizza places are in the Tullahoma-Manchester, TN area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 13 pizza places in the Tullahoma-Manchester area. 11 of them (85%) are chain locations. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 56 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in 2023, up 24.4% from 2019. The official count takes in all limited-service restaurants, not only pizza places: fast food and sandwich shops are counted too. Another 13 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.
How much do households in the Tullahoma-Manchester, TN area spend on food away from home?
About $84.4M a year, or $3,268 per household. That is 20% below the U.S. average (an index of 80, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 13 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 25,836 households in the Tullahoma-Manchester area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Tullahoma-Manchester, TN area compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
The Tullahoma-Manchester area has 5.0 pizza places per 10,000 households, 37% below the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $6.5M, 28% above the U.S. figure of $5.1M. At the U.S. ratio of pizza places to household spending, the Tullahoma-Manchester area would have about 17, against 13 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 461 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S. The official count rose 24.4% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.1% for the U.S.
How fast is the Tullahoma-Manchester, TN area growing?
Population estimates put the Tullahoma-Manchester area at 69,339 people in 2025, up 7.3% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 25,836 households. Median household income in the Tullahoma-Manchester area is $62,285, 23% below the U.S. median of $80,734.
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 Tullahoma-Manchester area scores 62 for pizza places (upper middle), #134 of 520 scored small-town markets.
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