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Restaurants and cafes in Clear Creek County, CO
How Clear Creek County, CO compares with other counties and the U.S. for restaurants and cafes: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
- Listings
- 85
- 17 chain locations (20%)
- Official establishments
- 36
- −2.7% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $21.5M
- On food away from home · $4,602 a household
- Spending per listing
- $253K
- 32% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 181.7
- 65% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 8,994
- −3.9% since 2020
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What this means
Household spending on food away from home in Clear Creek County comes to about $21.5M a year: $4,602 per household, 13% above the U.S. average. That is about $253K of household spending for each restaurant on map listings, 32% below the U.S. figure of $371K.
There are 85 restaurants and cafes on map listings in Clear Creek County as of September 2026. Of those, 17 are chain locations, or 20%, against 34% across the U.S. That comes to 181.7 for every 10,000 households, 65% above the U.S. rate of 109.8.
In 2023, official counts showed 36 businesses with payroll in Clear Creek County classed as restaurants and other eating places, down 2.7% from 2019. That is one for every 130 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Another 4 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts. Since fiscal 2022, 6 SBA-backed loans worth $3.9M have gone to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in Clear Creek County.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Clear Creek County declined 3.9%, 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 Clear Creek County compares
The same measures for Colorado 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 | Clear Creek County | Colorado | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 181.7 | 113.0 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $253K | $391K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 130 | 204 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | −2.7% | +5.6% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −3.9% | +3.9% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $4,602 | $4,421 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $94,577 | $95,470 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 64 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 37 → 36−2.7% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 533
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $18.7M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 4Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 8517 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 58The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 6
- Amount
- $3.9M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in Clear Creek 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 Clear Creek County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 8,994−3.9% since 2020
- Households
- 4,677
- Median age
- 48.8
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 82%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.2
- Land area
- 395 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 23
- Median household income
- $94,577
- Average household income
- $136,150
- Median home value
- $608,500
- Jobs located here
- 3,636
- Daytime population
- 8,112Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Colorado
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Elbert County, CO | 97 | 49 | 49.0 | $1.1M | +16.5% | #2 of 2,405 |
| 2Park County, CO | 89 | 69 | 76.8 | $578K | +5.1% | #33 of 2,405 |
| 3Weld County, CO | 84 | 984 | 79.2 | $546K | +14.2% | #76 of 2,405 |
| 4Douglas County, CO | 83 | 1,125 | 80.4 | $698K | +10.9% | #82 of 2,405 |
| 5Broomfield County, CO | 74 | 270 | 85.0 | $602K | +6.3% | #257 of 2,405 |
| 6Adams County, CO | 74 | 1,691 | 89.6 | $483K | +6.6% | #272 of 2,405 |
| 7Arapahoe County, CO | 62 | 2,493 | 96.9 | $472K | +2.8% | #671 of 2,405 |
| 8Jefferson County, CO | 61 | 2,240 | 92.7 | $516K | −0.5% | #707 of 2,405 |
| 9El Paso County, CO | 61 | 2,957 | 101.9 | $418K | +3.2% | #723 of 2,405 |
| 10Mesa County, CO | 59 | 630 | 95.7 | $391K | +4.4% | #811 of 2,405 |
| Clear Creek County, CO | Not scored | 85 | 181.7 | $253K | −3.9% |
Other business types in Clear Creek County
None has a Groundwork market score here. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
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Questions
How many restaurants and cafes are in Clear Creek County, CO?
As of September 2026, map listings count 85 restaurants and cafes in Clear Creek County. 17 of them (20%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 36 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023, down 2.7% from 2019. Official counts list 4 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Clear Creek County, CO spend on food away from home?
About $21.5M a year, or $4,602 per household. That is 13% above the U.S. average (an index of 113, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 85 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $253K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 4,677 households in Clear Creek County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Clear Creek County, CO compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
Clear Creek County has 181.7 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 65% above the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $253K, 32% below the U.S. figure of $371K. At the U.S. ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, Clear Creek County would have about 58, against 85 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 130 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. The official count fell 2.7% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.0% for the U.S.
How fast is Clear Creek County, CO growing?
Population estimates put Clear Creek County at 8,994 people in 2025, down 3.9% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 4,677 households. Median household income in Clear Creek County is $94,577, 17% 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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