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Pizza places in Dawson County, TX
Competitor counts, household spending and official business counts for pizza places in Dawson County, TX, set against other counties and the U.S.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 3.
- Listings
- 3
- 3 chain locations (100%)
- Official establishments
- 10
- All limited-service restaurants
- Household spending a year
- $12.9M
- On food away from home · $3,201 a household
- Spending per listing
- $4.3M
- 15% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 7.4
- 7% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 11,776
- −5.6% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 3 pizza places in Dawson County. That is 7.4 per 10,000 households, 7% below the U.S. rate of 8.0.
Household spending on food away from home in Dawson County comes to about $12.9M a year: $3,201 per household, 21% below the U.S. average. That is about $4.3M of household spending for each pizza place on map listings, 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 10 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in Dawson County in 2023. That is one for every 404 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.
Population estimates put the population change in Dawson County from 2020 to 2025 at −5.6%, against +3.1% for the U.S. With 3 pizza places on map listings, Dawson County isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How Dawson 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 | Dawson County | Texas | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 7.4 | 6.5 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $4.3M | $6.1M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 404 | 451 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +9.0% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −5.6% | +8.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,201 | $3,970 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $54,360 | $78,476 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 64 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 11 → 10All limited-service restaurants
- Employees, 2023
- 208
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $3.5M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 33 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 3The 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 Dawson 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 Dawson County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 11,776−5.6% since 2020
- Households
- 4,043
- Median age
- 34.8
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 71%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.6
- Land area
- 900 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 13
- Median household income
- $54,360+25.7% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $78,550
- Median home value
- $103,400
- Jobs located here
- 4,022
- Daytime population
- 11,229Residents 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 |
| Dawson County, TX | Not scored | 3 | 7.4 | $4.3M | −5.6% |
Other business types in Dawson County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Questions
How many pizza places are in Dawson County, TX?
There are 3 pizza places on map listings in Dawson County as of September 2026. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 10 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in 2023. That count covers all limited-service restaurants (fast food and sandwich shops included), not only pizza places.
How much do households in Dawson County, TX spend on food away from home?
About $12.9M a year, or $3,201 per household. That is 21% below the U.S. average (an index of 79, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 3 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 4,043 households in Dawson County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Dawson County, TX compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
Dawson County has 7.4 pizza places per 10,000 households, 7% below the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $4.3M, 15% below the U.S. figure of $5.1M. The count on map listings matches the U.S. ratio of pizza places to household spending. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 404 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S.
How fast is Dawson County, TX growing?
Population estimates put Dawson County at 11,776 people in 2025, down 5.6% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 4,043 households. The median household income in Dawson County is $54,360 a year, 33% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 25.7% 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. 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. Dawson County has no market score for pizza places: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 3.
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