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Pizza places in Lee County, VA
How Lee County, VA 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 28 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #1,849 of 2,090 scored counties
#76 of 95 scored counties in Virginia
- Listings
- 12
- 11 chain locations (92%)
- Official establishments
- 8
- All limited-service restaurants
- Household spending a year
- $24.2M
- On food away from home · $2,841 a household
- Spending per listing
- $2M
- 60% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 14.1
- 76% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 21,642
- −2.1% since 2020
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What this means
For pizza places, Lee County has a Groundwork market score of 28 (lower middle): #1,849 of 2,090 scored counties and #76 of 95 scored counties in Virginia. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Household spending on food away from home in Lee County comes to about $24.2M a year: $2,841 per household, 30% below the U.S. average. Spread across 12 pizza places, that is $2M per pizza place, 60% below the U.S. figure of $5.1M. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places.
Lee County has 12 pizza places on map listings as of September 2026. 11 of them (92%) are chain locations, against 58% across the U.S. That is 14.1 per 10,000 households, 76% above the U.S. rate of 8.0.
In 2023, official counts showed 8 businesses with payroll in Lee County classed as limited-service restaurants. That is one for every 1,066 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. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Lee County declined 2.1%, against +3.1% for the U.S.
How Lee 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 | Lee County | Virginia | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 14.1 | 7.5 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $2M | $5.8M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 1,066 | 471 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +3.6% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −2.1% | +2.8% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $2,841 | $4,372 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $41,827 | $93,170 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 28 | 59 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 8 → 8All limited-service restaurants
- Employees, 2023
- 160
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $2.5M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 3All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 1211 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 5The 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 Lee 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 Lee County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 21,642−2.1% since 2020
- Households
- 8,527
- Median age
- 46.2
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 73%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 435 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 50
- Median household income
- $41,827+27.2% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $59,845
- Median home value
- $98,900
- Jobs located here
- 3,872
- Daytime population
- 18,154Residents 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 |
| 76Lee County, VA | 28 | 12 | 14.1 | $2M | −2.1% | #1,849 of 2,090 |
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Questions
How many pizza places are in Lee County, VA?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 12 pizza places in Lee County. 11 of them (92%) are chain locations. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 8 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. Official counts list 3 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Lee County, VA spend on food away from home?
About $24.2M a year, or $2,841 per household. That is 30% below the U.S. average (an index of 70, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 12 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $2M 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 8,527 households in Lee County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Lee County, VA compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
Lee County has 14.1 pizza places per 10,000 households, 76% above the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $2M, 60% below the U.S. figure of $5.1M. At the U.S. ratio of pizza places to household spending, Lee County would have about 5, against 12 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,066 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S.
How fast is Lee County, VA growing?
Population estimates put Lee County at 21,642 people in 2025, down 2.1% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 8,527 households. Median household income in Lee County is $41,827, 48% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 27.2%, 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. Lee County scores 28 for pizza places (lower middle), #1,849 of 2,090 scored counties.
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