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Restaurants and cafes in the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL metro area
How the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL metro area compares with other metro areas and the U.S. for restaurants and cafes: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 66 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #89 of 387 scored metro areas
#11 of 22 scored metro areas based in Florida
- Listings
- 2,018
- 818 chain locations (41%)
- Official establishments
- 757
- +16.5% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $766M
- On food away from home · $3,799 a household
- Spending per listing
- $380K
- 2% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 100.1
- 9% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 544,949
- +6.5% since 2020
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 2,018 restaurants and cafes in the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent metro area. Of those, 818 are chain locations, or 41%, against 34% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 100.1, 9% below the U.S. rate of 109.8.
Households in the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent metro area spend about $766M a year on food away from home, or $3,799 per household, 7% below the U.S. average. Spread across 2,018 restaurants and cafes, that is $380K per restaurant, 2% above the U.S. figure of $371K.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent metro area was 757 in 2023, up 16.5% from 2019. That is one for every 266 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Official counts also show 167 one-person businesses without payroll. Since fiscal 2022, 34 SBA-backed loans worth $28.8M have gone to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent metro area.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent metro area grew 6.5%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). For restaurants and cafes, the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent metro area has a Groundwork market score of 66 (upper middle): #89 of 387 scored metro areas and #11 of 22 scored metro areas based in Florida. That puts it in the top quarter of metro areas.
How the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent metro area compares
The same measures for Florida 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 | Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent metro area | Florida | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 100.1 | 112.4 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $380K | $342K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 266 | 223 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +16.5% | +11.6% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +6.5% | +8.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,799 | $3,841 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $75,967 | $74,568 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 66 | 46 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 757+16.5% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 18,020
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $401.6M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 167Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 2,018818 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 2,066The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 34
- Amount
- $28.8M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent metro area, 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 the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 544,949+6.5% since 2020
- Households
- 201,632
- Median age
- 39.8
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 70%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 1,669 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 314
- Median household income
- $75,967+35.6% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $99,236
- Median home value
- $286,000
- Jobs located here
- 205,446
- Daytime population
- 517,822Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top metro areas in Florida
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Wildwood-The Villages, FL | 89 | 337 | 47.9 | $782K | +21.1% | #2 of 387 |
| 2Punta Gorda, FL | 84 | 703 | 77.6 | $463K | +15.5% | #9 of 387 |
| 3Homosassa Springs, FL | 78 | 480 | 67.3 | $486K | +11.1% | #21 of 387 |
| 4Ocala, FL | 78 | 1,226 | 74.4 | $446K | +17.3% | #25 of 387 |
| 5Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL | 78 | 2,394 | 82.7 | $423K | +19.8% | #26 of 387 |
| 6Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL | 77 | 643 | 90.8 | $422K | +7.7% | #32 of 387 |
| 7Port St. Lucie, FL | 76 | 1,847 | 90.0 | $422K | +16.0% | #36 of 387 |
| 8North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL | 74 | 3,949 | 101.5 | $396K | +13.2% | #40 of 387 |
| 9Sebring, FL | 69 | 355 | 75.7 | $415K | +9.7% | #69 of 387 |
| 10Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL | 66 | 2,635 | 102.3 | $383K | +9.1% | #88 of 387 |
| 11Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL | 66 | 2,018 | 100.1 | $380K | +6.5% | #89 of 387 |
Other business types in the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent metro area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes66
- Sit-down restaurants61
- Fast food and sandwich shops61
- Pizza75
- Coffee shops and cafes67
- Bakeries and dessert shops71
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Questions
How many restaurants and cafes are in the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL metro area?
The Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent metro area has 2,018 restaurants and cafes on map listings as of September 2026. 818 of them (41%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 757 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023, up 16.5% from 2019. Another 167 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.
How much do households in the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL metro area spend on food away from home?
About $766M a year, or $3,799 per household. That is 7% below the U.S. average (an index of 93, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 2,018 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $380K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 201,632 households in the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL metro area compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
The Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent metro area has 100.1 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 9% below the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $380K, 2% above the U.S. figure of $371K. At the national ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent metro area would have about 2,066, against 2,018 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 266 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. The official count rose 16.5% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.0% for the U.S.
How fast is the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent metro area at 544,949 people in 2025, up 6.5% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 201,632 households. The median household income in the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent metro area is $75,967 a year, 6% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 35.6% 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. The Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent metro area scores 66 for restaurants and cafes (upper middle), #89 of 387 scored metro areas.
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