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Restaurants and cafes in San Juan County, CO
How San Juan 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
- 22
- 1 chain location (5%)
- Official establishments
- 11
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $1.4M
- On food away from home · $3,452 a household
- Spending per listing
- $63K
- 83% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 551.4
- 5 times the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 813
- +14.5% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 22 restaurants and cafes in San Juan County. One of them (5%) is a chain location, against 34% across the U.S. That comes to 551.4 for every 10,000 households, 5 times the U.S. rate of 109.8.
Households in San Juan County spend about $1.4M a year on food away from home, or $3,452 per household, 15% below the U.S. average. Spread across 22 restaurants and cafes, that is $63K per restaurant, 83% below the U.S. figure of $371K.
Official counts show 11 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in San Juan County in 2023. That is one for every 36 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S.
Population estimates put the population change in San Juan County from 2020 to 2025 at +14.5%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). Counties under 10,000 people aren’t given a market score, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
How San Juan 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 | San Juan County | Colorado | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 551.4 | 113.0 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $63K | $391K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 36 | 204 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +5.6% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +14.5% | +3.9% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,452 | $4,421 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $77,824 | $95,470 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 64 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 17 → 11
- Employees, 2023
- 42
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $2.6M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 221 chain location
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 4The 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 San Juan 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 San Juan County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 813+14.5% since 2020
- Households
- 399
- Median age
- 37.5
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 53%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 388 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 2
- Median household income
- $77,824
- Average household income
- $80,310
- Median home value
- $432,500
- Jobs located here
- 336
- Daytime population
- 714Residents 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 |
| San Juan County, CO | Not scored | 22 | 551.4 | $63K | +14.5% |
Other business types in San Juan 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 San Juan County, CO?
There are 22 restaurants and cafes on map listings in San Juan County as of September 2026. One of them (5%) is a chain location. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 11 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023.
How much do households in San Juan County, CO spend on food away from home?
About $1.4M a year, or $3,452 per household. That is 15% below the U.S. average (an index of 85, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 22 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $63K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 399 households in San Juan County and national spending patterns by income.
How does San Juan County, CO compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
San Juan County has 551.4 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 5 times the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $63K, 83% below the U.S. figure of $371K. At the national ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, San Juan County would have about 4, against 22 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 36 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S.
How fast is San Juan County, CO growing?
Population estimates put San Juan County at 813 people in 2025, up 14.5% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 399 households. The median household income in San Juan County is $77,824 a year, 4% 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. 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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