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Restaurants and cafes in Yell County, AR
How Yell County, AR compares with other counties and the U.S. for restaurants and cafes: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 56 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #906 of 2,405 scored counties
#13 of 61 scored counties in Arkansas
- Listings
- 56
- 16 chain locations (29%)
- Official establishments
- 17
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $25.8M
- On food away from home · $3,106 a household
- Spending per listing
- $462K
- 24% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 67.3
- 39% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 19,956
- −1.3% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 56 restaurants and cafes in Yell County. 16 of them (29%) are chain locations, against 34% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 67.3, 39% below the U.S. rate of 109.8.
At $3,106 per household (24% below the U.S. average), households in Yell County spend about $25.8M a year on food away from home. That is about $462K of household spending for each restaurant on map listings, 24% above the U.S. figure of $371K.
Official counts show 17 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in Yell County in 2023. That is one for every 490 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Another 4 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.
Population estimates show Yell County declined 1.3% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S. Yell County scores 56 (upper middle) on the Groundwork market score for restaurants and cafes, ranking #906 of 2,405 scored counties and #13 of 61 scored counties in Arkansas.
How Yell County compares
The same measures for Arkansas 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 | Yell County | Arkansas | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 67.3 | 98.5 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $462K | $345K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 490 | 238 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +8.5% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −1.3% | +3.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,106 | $3,400 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $55,934 | $60,773 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 56 | 43 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 17 → 17
- Employees, 2023
- 213
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $3.5M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 4Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 5616 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 70The 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 restaurants and other eating places in Yell 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.
Population and households in Yell County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 19,956−1.3% since 2020
- Households
- 8,323
- Median age
- 39.8
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 68%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 930 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 22
- Median household income
- $55,934+27.4% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $69,272
- Median home value
- $143,600
- Jobs located here
- 6,642
- Daytime population
- 19,039Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Arkansas
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Madison County, AR | 80 | 35 | 54.2 | $594K | +11.2% | #135 of 2,405 |
| 2Saline County, AR | 79 | 347 | 69.1 | $549K | +7.6% | #153 of 2,405 |
| 3Perry County, AR | 78 | 15 | 36.6 | $895K | +3.1% | #164 of 2,405 |
| 4Grant County, AR | 77 | 45 | 64.5 | $552K | +4.1% | #198 of 2,405 |
| 5Marion County, AR | 73 | 34 | 44.4 | $663K | +4.3% | #286 of 2,405 |
| 6Lonoke County, AR | 72 | 214 | 74.9 | $486K | +3.5% | #349 of 2,405 |
| 7Fulton County, AR | 71 | 22 | 46.2 | $606K | +3.7% | #362 of 2,405 |
| 8Hot Spring County, AR | 65 | 67 | 54.4 | $577K | +1.1% | #536 of 2,405 |
| 9Benton County, AR | 65 | 1,238 | 110.6 | $391K | +16.0% | #579 of 2,405 |
| 10Logan County, AR | 63 | 61 | 71.6 | $460K | +2.5% | #631 of 2,405 |
| 13Yell County, AR | 56 | 56 | 67.3 | $462K | −1.3% | #906 of 2,405 |
Other business types in Yell County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes56
- Sit-down restaurants46
- Fast food and sandwich shops
- Pizza46
- Coffee shops and cafes
- Bakeries and dessert shops22
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Questions
How many restaurants and cafes are in Yell County, AR?
There are 56 restaurants and cafes on map listings in Yell County as of September 2026. 16 of them (29%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 17 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023. Official counts list 4 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Yell County, AR spend on food away from home?
About $25.8M a year, or $3,106 per household. That is 24% below the U.S. average (an index of 76, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 56 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $462K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 8,323 households in Yell County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Yell County, AR compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
Yell County has 67.3 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 39% below the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $462K, 24% above the U.S. figure of $371K. At the national ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, Yell County would have about 70, against 56 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 490 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S.
How fast is Yell County, AR growing?
Population estimates put Yell County at 19,956 people in 2025, down 1.3% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 8,323 households. The median household income in Yell County is $55,934 a year, 31% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 27.4% from the 2015–2019 survey, 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. Yell County scores 56 for restaurants and cafes (upper middle), #906 of 2,405 scored counties.
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