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Restaurants and cafes in Crawford County, GA
How Crawford County, GA 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 76 out of 100: High
Ranked #213 of 2,405 scored counties
#22 of 124 scored counties in Georgia
- Listings
- 17
- 7 chain locations (41%)
- Official establishments
- 4
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $15.2M
- On food away from home · $3,423 a household
- Spending per listing
- $894K
- 2.4 times the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 38.3
- 65% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 12,206
- +0.9% since 2020
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What this means
For restaurants and cafes, Crawford County has a Groundwork market score of 76 (high): #213 of 2,405 scored counties and #22 of 124 scored counties in Georgia. That puts it in the top 10% of counties for restaurants and cafes.
At $3,423 per household (16% below the U.S. average), households in Crawford County spend about $15.2M a year on food away from home. That is about $894K of household spending for each restaurant on map listings, 2.4 times the U.S. figure of $371K.
Crawford County has 17 restaurants and cafes on map listings as of September 2026. 7 of them (41%) are chain locations, against 34% across the U.S. That comes to 38.3 for every 10,000 households, 65% below the U.S. rate of 109.8.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in Crawford County was 4 in 2023. That is one for every 1,110 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Crawford County grew 0.9%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How Crawford County compares
The same measures for Georgia 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 | Crawford County | Georgia | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 38.3 | 109.9 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $894K | $356K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 1,110 | 203 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +10.2% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +0.9% | +5.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,423 | $3,917 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $67,116 | $77,353 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 76 | 45 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 5 → 4
- Employees, 2023
- 51
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $724K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 3Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 177 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 41The 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 Crawford 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 Crawford County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 12,206+0.9% since 2020
- Households
- 4,441
- Median age
- 44.4
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 81%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 325 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 38
- Median household income
- $67,116+45.0% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $84,933
- Median home value
- $164,100
- Jobs located here
- 1,314
- Daytime population
- 8,468Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Georgia
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Paulding County, GA | 92 | 351 | 58.5 | $737K | +12.7% | #15 of 2,405 |
| 2Harris County, GA | 92 | 80 | 61.4 | $713K | +6.8% | #16 of 2,405 |
| 3Oglethorpe County, GA | 90 | 24 | 44.4 | $827K | +10.4% | #21 of 2,405 |
| 4Pike County, GA | 90 | 37 | 55.1 | $726K | +10.5% | #24 of 2,405 |
| 5Effingham County, GA | 90 | 150 | 61.8 | $661K | +14.1% | #27 of 2,405 |
| 6Lee County, GA | 87 | 54 | 43.9 | $901K | +2.9% | #39 of 2,405 |
| 7Monroe County, GA | 86 | 86 | 81.5 | $496K | +14.1% | #55 of 2,405 |
| 8Long County, GA | 85 | 21 | 34.1 | $958K | +32.6% | #57 of 2,405 |
| 9Jones County, GA | 83 | 44 | 40.8 | $908K | +2.8% | #79 of 2,405 |
| 10Jasper County, GA | 83 | 31 | 52.0 | $677K | +20.2% | #83 of 2,405 |
| 22Crawford County, GA | 76 | 17 | 38.3 | $894K | +0.9% | #213 of 2,405 |
Other business types in Crawford County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes76
- Sit-down restaurants64
- Fast food and sandwich shops
- Pizza48
- Coffee shops and cafes
- Bakeries and dessert shops
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Questions
How many restaurants and cafes are in Crawford County, GA?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 17 restaurants and cafes in Crawford County. 7 of them (41%) 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. Official counts list 3 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Crawford County, GA spend on food away from home?
About $15.2M a year, or $3,423 per household. That is 16% below the U.S. average (an index of 84, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 17 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $894K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 4,441 households in Crawford County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Crawford County, GA compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
Crawford County has 38.3 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 65% below the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $894K, 2.4 times the U.S. figure of $371K. At the U.S. ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, Crawford County would have about 41, against 17 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,110 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S.
How fast is Crawford County, GA growing?
Population estimates put Crawford County at 12,206 people in 2025, up 0.9% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 4,441 households. Median household income in Crawford County is $67,116, 17% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 45.0%, 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. Crawford County scores 76 for restaurants and cafes (high), #213 of 2,405 scored counties.
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