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Restaurants and cafes in Sitka City and Borough, AK
The restaurants and cafes in Sitka City and Borough, AK, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other counties.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
- Listings
- 51
- 5 chain locations (10%)
- Official establishments
- 26
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $14.8M
- On food away from home · $4,312 a household
- Spending per listing
- $291K
- 22% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 148.3
- 35% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 8,319
- −1.3% since 2020
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What this means
At $4,312 per household (6% above the U.S. average), households in Sitka City and Borough spend about $14.8M a year on food away from home. Spread across 51 restaurants and cafes, that is $291K per restaurant, 22% below the U.S. figure of $371K.
There are 51 restaurants and cafes on map listings in Sitka City and Borough as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 10% of them, against 34% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 148.3, 35% above the U.S. rate of 109.8.
In 2023, official counts showed 26 businesses with payroll in Sitka City and Borough classed as restaurants and other eating places. That is one for every 132 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Another 11 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts. Since fiscal 2022, 2 SBA-backed loans worth $1.8M have gone to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in Sitka City and Borough.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Sitka City and Borough declined 1.3%, against +3.1% for the U.S. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t given a market score, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
How Sitka City and Borough compares
The same measures for Alaska and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all food away from home by the restaurants and cafes 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 | Sitka City and Borough | Alaska | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 148.3 | 117.3 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $291K | $368K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 132 | 196 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +3.8% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −1.3% | +0.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $4,312 | $4,320 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $101,727 | $92,788 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 41 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 18 → 26
- Employees, 2023
- 267
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $8.4M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 11Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 515 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 40The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 2
- Amount
- $1.8M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in Sitka City and Borough, 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.
Population and households in Sitka City and Borough
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 8,319−1.3% since 2020
- Households
- 3,440
- Median age
- 41.9
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 62%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.6
- Land area
- 2,870 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 3
- Median household income
- $101,727
- Average household income
- $110,277
- Median home value
- $450,300
- Jobs located here
- n/a
- Daytime population
- n/aResidents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Alaska
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Bethel Census Area, AK | 76 | 13 | 26.9 | $1.4M | −1.5% | #212 of 2,405 |
| 2Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK | 72 | 375 | 94.1 | $455K | +10.4% | #351 of 2,405 |
| 3North Slope Borough, AK | 54 | 25 | 109.6 | $417K | −3.8% | #1,006 of 2,405 |
| 4Anchorage Municipality, AK | 43 | 1,294 | 119.2 | $385K | −1.3% | #1,486 of 2,405 |
| 5Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK | 42 | 424 | 116.6 | $362K | −1.4% | #1,533 of 2,405 |
| 6Kodiak Island Borough, AK | 41 | 50 | 107.8 | $375K | −5.0% | #1,568 of 2,405 |
| 7Juneau City and Borough, AK | 37 | 171 | 129.9 | $347K | −1.8% | #1,738 of 2,405 |
| 8Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK | 35 | 374 | 153.5 | $261K | +5.1% | #1,849 of 2,405 |
| 9Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK | 23 | 107 | 186.7 | $226K | −2.6% | #2,236 of 2,405 |
| Sitka City and Borough, AK | Not scored | 51 | 148.3 | $291K | −1.3% |
Other business types in Sitka City and Borough
None has a Groundwork market score here. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
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Questions
How many restaurants and cafes are in Sitka City and Borough, AK?
As of September 2026, map listings count 51 restaurants and cafes in Sitka City and Borough. 5 of them (10%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 26 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023. Official counts list 11 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Sitka City and Borough, AK spend on food away from home?
About $14.8M a year, or $4,312 per household. That is 6% above the U.S. average (an index of 106, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 51 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $291K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 3,440 households in Sitka City and Borough and national spending patterns by income.
How does Sitka City and Borough, AK compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
Sitka City and Borough has 148.3 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 35% above the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $291K, 22% below the U.S. figure of $371K. At the U.S. ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, Sitka City and Borough would have about 40, against 51 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 132 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S.
How fast is Sitka City and Borough, AK growing?
Population estimates put Sitka City and Borough at 8,319 people in 2025, down 1.3% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 3,440 households. Median household income in Sitka City and Borough is $101,727, 26% above 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. 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 score leaves out counties under 10,000 people, where a handful of businesses would swing it.
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