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Pizza places in Essex County, VA
Competitor counts, household spending and official business counts for pizza places in Essex County, VA, 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
- 9
- All limited-service restaurants
- Household spending a year
- $14.6M
- On food away from home · $3,290 a household
- Spending per listing
- $4.9M
- 4% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 6.7
- 16% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 10,654
- +0.5% since 2020
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What this means
Households in Essex County spend about $14.6M a year on food away from home, or $3,290 per household, 19% below the U.S. average. That is about $4.9M of household spending for each pizza place on map listings, 4% below the U.S. figure of $5.1M. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places.
Essex County has 3 pizza places on map listings as of September 2026. That is 6.7 per 10,000 households, 16% below the U.S. rate of 8.0.
In 2023, official counts showed 9 businesses with payroll in Essex County classed as limited-service restaurants. That is one for every 494 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.
Population estimates put the population change in Essex County from 2020 to 2025 at +0.5%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). With 3 pizza places on map listings, Essex County isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How Essex County compares
The same measures for Virginia 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 | Essex County | Virginia | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 6.7 | 7.5 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $4.9M | $5.8M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 494 | 471 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +3.6% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +0.5% | +2.8% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,290 | $4,372 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $56,520 | $93,170 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 59 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 8 → 9All limited-service restaurants
- Employees, 2023
- 212
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $4M
- 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 Essex 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 Essex County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 10,654+0.5% since 2020
- Households
- 4,447
- Median age
- 48.1
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 72%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 257 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 41
- Median household income
- $56,520+8.8% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $81,300
- Median home value
- $238,100
- Jobs located here
- 3,291
- Daytime population
- 8,320Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Virginia
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1New Kent County, VA | 98 | 5 | 5.4 | $8.9M | +21.2% | #1 of 2,090 |
| 2Powhatan County, VA | 93 | 7 | 6.2 | $7.5M | +7.0% | #2 of 2,090 |
| 3Frederick County, VA | 91 | 17 | 4.8 | $9.2M | +8.8% | #7 of 2,090 |
| 4Caroline County, VA | 91 | 6 | 5.0 | $8.1M | +11.3% | #8 of 2,090 |
| 5Albemarle County, VA | 90 | 21 | 4.6 | $10.1M | +5.1% | #11 of 2,090 |
| 6Rockingham County, VA | 88 | 16 | 4.9 | $7.9M | +6.6% | #17 of 2,090 |
| 7Louisa County, VA | 88 | 10 | 6.4 | $6.3M | +13.6% | #21 of 2,090 |
| 8Isle of Wight County, VA | 85 | 8 | 5.1 | $8.4M | +6.7% | #36 of 2,090 |
| 9James City County, VA | 85 | 21 | 6.6 | $7.1M | +6.2% | #41 of 2,090 |
| 10Culpeper County, VA | 83 | 11 | 5.8 | $7.5M | +9.3% | #51 of 2,090 |
| Essex County, VA | Not scored | 3 | 6.7 | $4.9M | +0.5% |
Other business types in Essex 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 Essex County, VA?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 3 pizza places in Essex County. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 9 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 Essex County, VA spend on food away from home?
About $14.6M a year, or $3,290 per household. That is 19% below the U.S. average (an index of 81, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 3 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $4.9M 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 4,447 households in Essex County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Essex County, VA compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
Essex County has 6.7 pizza places per 10,000 households, 16% below the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $4.9M, 4% 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 494 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S.
How fast is Essex County, VA growing?
Population estimates put Essex County at 10,654 people in 2025, up 0.5% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 4,447 households. Median household income in Essex County is $56,520, 30% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 8.8%, 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. Essex County has no market score for pizza places: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 3.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
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