Food and drink · Small-town market · Wisconsin
Pizza places in the Sparta, WI area
How the Sparta, WI area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for pizza places: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 75 out of 100: High
Ranked #44 of 520 scored small-town markets
#6 of 13 scored small-town markets based in Wisconsin
- Listings
- 12
- 8 chain locations (67%)
- Official establishments
- 25
- All limited-service restaurants · +19.1% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $67M
- On food away from home · $3,663 a household
- Spending per listing
- $5.6M
- 10% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 6.6
- 17% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 46,572
- +0.6% since 2020
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What this means
The Groundwork market score for pizza places in the Sparta area is 75 (high), #44 of 520 scored small-town markets and #6 of 13 scored small-town markets based in Wisconsin. That puts it in the top 10% of small-town markets for pizza places.
Map listings as of September 2026 show 12 pizza places in the Sparta area. Chain locations make up 67% of them, against 58% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 6.6, 17% below the U.S. rate of 8.0.
At $3,663 per household (10% below the U.S. average), households in the Sparta area spend about $67M a year on food away from home. That works out to $5.6M per pizza place, 10% above 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 25 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in the Sparta area in 2023, up 19.1% from 2019. That is one for every 732 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 show the Sparta area grew 0.6% from 2020 to 2025, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How the Sparta area compares
The same measures for Wisconsin 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 | Sparta area | Wisconsin | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 6.6 | 6.9 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $5.6M | $5.7M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 732 | 632 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +19.1% | +3.8% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +0.6% | +1.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,663 | $3,959 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $69,467 | $77,485 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 75 | 63 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 25All limited-service restaurants · +19.1% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 657
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $12.3M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 128 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 13The 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 the Sparta area, 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 the Sparta area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 46,572+0.6% since 2020
- Households
- 18,301
- Median age
- 40.0
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 73%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 901 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 51
- Median household income
- $69,467
- Average household income
- $87,535
- Median home value
- $210,000
- Jobs located here
- 19,806
- Daytime population
- 44,513Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Wisconsin market ranked →The highest-scoring small-town markets in Wisconsin for pizza places, numbered among those based in Wisconsin, with the Sparta area marked.
Top small-town markets in Wisconsin
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Shawano, WI | 83 | 7 | 3.8 | $9.4M | +1.4% | #9 of 520 |
| 2Stevens Point-Plover, WI | 79 | 12 | 4.0 | $9.5M | +2.2% | #20 of 520 |
| 3Beaver Dam, WI | 78 | 23 | 6.4 | $5.9M | −0.3% | #26 of 520 |
| 4Manitowoc, WI | 78 | 22 | 6.3 | $5.8M | +0.4% | #27 of 520 |
| 5Menomonie, WI | 77 | 14 | 8.0 | $4.7M | +1.7% | #33 of 520 |
| 6Sparta, WI | 75 | 12 | 6.6 | $5.6M | +0.6% | #44 of 520 |
| 7Watertown-Fort Atkinson, WI | 74 | 25 | 7.2 | $5.6M | +0.3% | #47 of 520 |
| 8Platteville, WI | 73 | 15 | 7.5 | $4.8M | +0.9% | #58 of 520 |
| 9Wisconsin Rapids-Marshfield, WI | 72 | 21 | 6.5 | $5.5M | −0.2% | #64 of 520 |
| 10Marinette, WI-MI | 69 | 17 | 5.8 | $5.9M | +0.3% | #81 of 520 |
Other business types in the Sparta area
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 the Sparta, WI area?
There are 12 pizza places on map listings in the Sparta area as of September 2026. 8 of them (67%) are chain locations. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 25 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in 2023, up 19.1% from 2019. That count covers all limited-service restaurants (fast food and sandwich shops included), not only pizza places.
How much do households in the Sparta, WI area spend on food away from home?
About $67M a year, or $3,663 per household. That is 10% below the U.S. average (an index of 90, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 12 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $5.6M per pizza place. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places. It is estimated from the incomes of the 18,301 households in the Sparta area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Sparta, WI area compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
The Sparta area has 6.6 pizza places per 10,000 households, 17% below the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $5.6M, 10% above the U.S. figure of $5.1M. At the national ratio of pizza places to household spending, the Sparta area would have about 13, against 12 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 732 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S. The official count rose 19.1% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.1% for the U.S.
How fast is the Sparta, WI area growing?
Population estimates put the Sparta area at 46,572 people in 2025, up 0.6% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 18,301 households. The median household income in the Sparta area is $69,467 a year, 14% below the U.S. median of $80,734.
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. A small-town market is a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people and the county or counties tied to it by commuting. 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. The Sparta area scores 75 for pizza places (high), #44 of 520 scored small-town markets.
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