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Pizza places in Cowlitz County, WA
How Cowlitz County, WA 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 77 out of 100: High
Ranked #130 of 2,090 scored counties
#17 of 31 scored counties in Washington
- Listings
- 23
- 12 chain locations (52%)
- Official establishments
- 68
- All limited-service restaurants · +1.5% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $165.9M
- On food away from home · $3,775 a household
- Spending per listing
- $7.2M
- 42% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 5.2
- 35% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 114,885
- +3.5% since 2020
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What this means
For pizza places, Cowlitz County has a Groundwork market score of 77 (high): #130 of 2,090 scored counties and #17 of 31 scored counties in Washington. That puts it in the top 10% of counties for pizza places.
Household spending on food away from home in Cowlitz County comes to about $165.9M a year: $3,775 per household, 7% below the U.S. average. That is about $7.2M of household spending for each pizza place on map listings, 42% above the U.S. figure of $5.1M. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places.
Cowlitz County has 23 pizza places on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 52% of them, against 58% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 5.2, 35% below the U.S. rate of 8.0.
In 2023, official counts showed 68 businesses with payroll in Cowlitz County classed as limited-service restaurants, up 1.5% from 2019. That is one for every 646 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, 4 SBA-backed loans worth $1M have gone to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in Cowlitz County. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Cowlitz County grew 3.5%, in step with the U.S. (+3.1%).
How Cowlitz County compares
The same measures for Washington 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 | Cowlitz County | Washington | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 5.2 | 6.1 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $7.2M | $7.4M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 646 | 593 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +1.5% | +2.7% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +3.5% | +3.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,775 | $4,501 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $76,531 | $98,141 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 77 | 87 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 67 → 68All limited-service restaurants · +1.5% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 1,576
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $34.6M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 4All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 2312 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 33The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 4
- Amount
- $1M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in Cowlitz 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 Cowlitz County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 114,885+3.5% since 2020
- Households
- 43,943
- Median age
- 42.1
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 68%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 1,141 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 98
- Median household income
- $76,531+40.4% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $95,669
- Median home value
- $397,500
- Jobs located here
- 40,531
- Daytime population
- 95,784Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Washington
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Douglas County, WA | 92 | 5 | 3.1 | $13M | +8.0% | #4 of 2,090 |
| 2Mason County, WA | 87 | 15 | 5.8 | $6.9M | +7.8% | #25 of 2,090 |
| 3Clark County, WA | 86 | 118 | 6.0 | $7.3M | +5.3% | #31 of 2,090 |
| 4Jefferson County, WA | 85 | 7 | 4.3 | $9M | +2.7% | #34 of 2,090 |
| 5Stevens County, WA | 85 | 9 | 4.6 | $7.8M | +6.6% | #37 of 2,090 |
| 6Klickitat County, WA | 83 | 6 | 6.1 | $6.2M | +6.6% | #54 of 2,090 |
| 7San Juan County, WA | 81 | 7 | 7.8 | $5.4M | +4.2% | #74 of 2,090 |
| 8Lewis County, WA | 80 | 16 | 4.9 | $7.7M | +6.7% | #82 of 2,090 |
| 9Snohomish County, WA | 80 | 202 | 6.4 | $7.5M | +4.9% | #84 of 2,090 |
| 10Pierce County, WA | 79 | 189 | 5.4 | $8.3M | +2.5% | #94 of 2,090 |
| 17Cowlitz County, WA | 77 | 23 | 5.2 | $7.2M | +3.5% | #130 of 2,090 |
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Questions
How many pizza places are in Cowlitz County, WA?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 23 pizza places in Cowlitz County. 12 of them (52%) are chain locations. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 68 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in 2023, up 1.5% from 2019. The official count takes in all limited-service restaurants, not only pizza places: fast food and sandwich shops are counted too. Another 4 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.
How much do households in Cowlitz County, WA spend on food away from home?
About $165.9M a year, or $3,775 per household. That is 7% below the U.S. average (an index of 93, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 23 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $7.2M 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 43,943 households in Cowlitz County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Cowlitz County, WA compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
Cowlitz County has 5.2 pizza places per 10,000 households, 35% below the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $7.2M, 42% above the U.S. figure of $5.1M. At the U.S. ratio of pizza places to household spending, Cowlitz County would have about 33, against 23 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 646 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S. The official count rose 1.5% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.1% for the U.S.
How fast is Cowlitz County, WA growing?
Population estimates put Cowlitz County at 114,885 people in 2025, up 3.5% since 2020, in step with the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 43,943 households. Median household income in Cowlitz County is $76,531, 5% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 40.4%, 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. Cowlitz County scores 77 for pizza places (high), #130 of 2,090 scored counties.
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