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Pizza places in Austin County, TX
The pizza places in Austin County, TX, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other counties.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 77 out of 100: High
Ranked #144 of 2,090 scored counties
#21 of 122 scored counties in Texas
- Listings
- 8
- 4 chain locations (50%)
- Official establishments
- 20
- All limited-service restaurants
- Household spending a year
- $47.2M
- On food away from home · $3,889 a household
- Spending per listing
- $5.9M
- 16% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 6.6
- 17% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 33,625
- +11.6% since 2020
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What this means
The Groundwork market score for pizza places in Austin County is 77 (high), #144 of 2,090 scored counties and #21 of 122 scored counties in Texas. That puts it in the top 10% of counties for pizza places.
Household spending on food away from home in Austin County comes to about $47.2M a year: $3,889 per household, 4% below the U.S. average. That is about $5.9M of household spending for each pizza place on map listings, 16% above the U.S. figure of $5.1M. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places.
Austin County has 8 pizza places on map listings as of September 2026. Of those, 4 are chain locations, or 50%, against 58% across the U.S. That is 6.6 per 10,000 households, 17% below the U.S. rate of 8.0.
Official counts show 20 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in Austin County in 2023. That is one for every 606 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 $835K has gone to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in Austin County. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Austin County grew 11.6%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How Austin County compares
The same measures for Texas 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 | Austin County | Texas | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 6.6 | 6.5 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $5.9M | $6.1M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 606 | 451 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +9.0% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +11.6% | +8.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,889 | $3,970 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $75,789 | $78,476 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 77 | 64 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 17 → 20All limited-service restaurants
- Employees, 2023
- 382
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $7.2M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 6All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 84 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 9The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $835K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in Austin 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 Austin County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 33,625+11.6% since 2020
- Households
- 12,128
- Median age
- 43.0
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 77%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.2
- Land area
- 647 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 48
- Median household income
- $75,789+14.5% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $97,163
- Median home value
- $296,900
- Jobs located here
- 9,751
- Daytime population
- 24,003Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Texas
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Bastrop County, TX | 90 | 14 | 3.8 | $10.6M | +21.3% | #10 of 2,090 |
| 2Guadalupe County, TX | 90 | 32 | 4.9 | $8.6M | +15.8% | #13 of 2,090 |
| 3Waller County, TX | 86 | 10 | 5.5 | $7.5M | +21.9% | #30 of 2,090 |
| 4Aransas County, TX | 83 | 5 | 4.0 | $9.1M | +9.3% | #50 of 2,090 |
| 5Lampasas County, TX | 82 | 5 | 6.0 | $6.7M | +9.0% | #59 of 2,090 |
| 6Wood County, TX | 81 | 8 | 4.3 | $8M | +10.3% | #63 of 2,090 |
| 7Burnet County, TX | 81 | 12 | 5.7 | $6.9M | +15.2% | #66 of 2,090 |
| 8Wise County, TX | 81 | 17 | 6.8 | $6.2M | +21.5% | #69 of 2,090 |
| 9Wilson County, TX | 80 | 9 | 4.9 | $8.6M | +12.2% | #78 of 2,090 |
| 10Caldwell County, TX | 79 | 7 | 4.2 | $8.5M | +20.0% | #93 of 2,090 |
| 21Austin County, TX | 77 | 8 | 6.6 | $5.9M | +11.6% | #144 of 2,090 |
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Questions
How many pizza places are in Austin County, TX?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 8 pizza places in Austin County. 4 of them (50%) are chain locations. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 20 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. Another 6 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.
How much do households in Austin County, TX spend on food away from home?
About $47.2M a year, or $3,889 per household. That is 4% below the U.S. average (an index of 96, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 8 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 12,128 households in Austin County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Austin County, TX compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
Austin County has 6.6 pizza places per 10,000 households, 17% 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, Austin County would have about 9, against 8 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 606 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S.
How fast is Austin County, TX growing?
Population estimates put Austin County at 33,625 people in 2025, up 11.6% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 12,128 households. Median household income in Austin County is $75,789, 6% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 14.5%, 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. Austin County scores 77 for pizza places (high), #144 of 2,090 scored counties.
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