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Restaurants and cafes in Alpine County, CA
Competitor counts, household spending and official business counts for restaurants and cafes in Alpine County, CA, set against other counties and the U.S.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
- Listings
- 12
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 4
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $2M
- On food away from home · $4,610 a household
- Spending per listing
- $167K
- 55% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 275.9
- 2.5 times the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 1,043
- −11.6% since 2020
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 12 restaurants and cafes in Alpine County. None of them are chain locations, against 34% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 275.9, 2.5 times the U.S. rate of 109.8.
Household spending on food away from home in Alpine County comes to about $2M a year: $4,610 per household, 13% above the U.S. average. That works out to $167K per restaurant, 55% below the U.S. figure of $371K.
Official counts show 4 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in Alpine County in 2023. That is one for every 109 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Alpine County declined 11.6%, 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 Alpine County compares
The same measures for California 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 | Alpine County | California | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 275.9 | 128.4 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $167K | $355K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 109 | 170 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +3.9% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −11.6% | −0.4% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $4,610 | $4,559 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $105,521 | $99,122 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 33 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 4 → 4
- Employees, 2023
- 34
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $1.2M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 120 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 restaurants and other eating places in Alpine 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 Alpine County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 1,043−11.6% since 2020
- Households
- 435
- Median age
- 39.8
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 78%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 738 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 2
- Median household income
- $105,521
- Average household income
- $143,386
- Median home value
- $590,200
- Jobs located here
- 687
- Daytime population
- 1,404Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in California
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Yuba County, CA | 86 | 179 | 62.5 | $606K | +8.2% | #52 of 2,405 |
| 2San Benito County, CA | 70 | 209 | 101.6 | $482K | +8.6% | #405 of 2,405 |
| 3Contra Costa County, CA | 64 | 3,869 | 93.4 | $555K | +0.3% | #585 of 2,405 |
| 4San Joaquin County, CA | 62 | 2,489 | 101.5 | $423K | +5.5% | #685 of 2,405 |
| 5Merced County, CA | 60 | 729 | 84.7 | $418K | +5.1% | #766 of 2,405 |
| 6Placer County, CA | 60 | 1,914 | 121.2 | $405K | +8.9% | #769 of 2,405 |
| 7Solano County, CA | 59 | 1,544 | 98.0 | $460K | +0.6% | #791 of 2,405 |
| 8Riverside County, CA | 59 | 7,943 | 102.4 | $422K | +5.0% | #802 of 2,405 |
| 9Madera County, CA | 58 | 450 | 99.2 | $387K | +7.4% | #849 of 2,405 |
| 10Lassen County, CA | 56 | 67 | 72.5 | $483K | −13.1% | #903 of 2,405 |
| Alpine County, CA | Not scored | 12 | 275.9 | $167K | −11.6% |
Other business types in Alpine County
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 Alpine County, CA?
Alpine County has 12 restaurants and cafes on map listings as of September 2026. None of them are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 4 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023.
How much do households in Alpine County, CA spend on food away from home?
About $2M a year, or $4,610 per household. That is 13% above the U.S. average (an index of 113, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 12 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $167K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 435 households in Alpine County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Alpine County, CA compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
Alpine County has 275.9 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 2.5 times the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $167K, 55% below the U.S. figure of $371K. At the national ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, Alpine County would have about 5, against 12 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 109 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S.
How fast is Alpine County, CA growing?
Population estimates put Alpine County at 1,043 people in 2025, down 11.6% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 435 households. The median household income in Alpine County is $105,521 a year, 31% 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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