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Restaurants and cafes in Dade County, GA
How Dade 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 51 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #1,155 of 2,405 scored counties
#63 of 124 scored counties in Georgia
- Listings
- 57
- 28 chain locations (49%)
- Official establishments
- 16
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $21.1M
- On food away from home · $3,461 a household
- Spending per listing
- $369K
- In line with the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 93.7
- 15% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 16,154
- −0.5% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 57 restaurants and cafes in Dade County. 28 of them (49%) are chain locations, against 34% across the U.S. That is 93.7 per 10,000 households, 15% below the U.S. rate of 109.8.
At $3,461 per household (15% below the U.S. average), households in Dade County spend about $21.1M a year on food away from home. That is about $369K of household spending for each restaurant on map listings, in line with the U.S. figure of $371K.
Official counts show 16 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in Dade County in 2023. That is one for every 380 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Official counts list 8 one-person businesses without payroll.
Population estimates show Dade County declined 0.5% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S. Dade County scores 51 (upper middle) on the Groundwork market score for restaurants and cafes, ranking #1,155 of 2,405 scored counties and #63 of 124 scored counties in Georgia.
How Dade 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 | Dade County | Georgia | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 93.7 | 109.9 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $369K | $356K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 380 | 203 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +10.2% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −0.5% | +5.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,461 | $3,917 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $64,568 | $77,353 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 51 | 45 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 18 → 16
- Employees, 2023
- 312
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $6.8M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 8Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 5728 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 57The 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 Dade 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 Dade County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 16,154−0.5% since 2020
- Households
- 6,083
- Median age
- 43.0
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 80%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 174 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 93
- Median household income
- $64,568+51.6% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $88,051
- Median home value
- $198,500
- Jobs located here
- 4,274
- Daytime population
- 14,311Residents 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 |
| 63Dade County, GA | 51 | 57 | 93.7 | $369K | −0.5% | #1,155 of 2,405 |
Other business types in Dade County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes51
- Sit-down restaurants45
- Fast food and sandwich shops31
- Pizza29
- Coffee shops and cafes44
- Bakeries and dessert shops
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Questions
How many restaurants and cafes are in Dade County, GA?
There are 57 restaurants and cafes on map listings in Dade County as of September 2026. 28 of them (49%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 16 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023. Official counts also show 8 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Dade County, GA spend on food away from home?
About $21.1M a year, or $3,461 per household. That is 15% below the U.S. average (an index of 85, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 57 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $369K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 6,083 households in Dade County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Dade County, GA compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
Dade County has 93.7 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 15% below the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $369K, in line with the U.S. figure of $371K. The count on map listings matches the U.S. ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 380 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S.
How fast is Dade County, GA growing?
Population estimates put Dade County at 16,154 people in 2025, down 0.5% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 6,083 households. The median household income in Dade County is $64,568 a year, 20% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 51.6% 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. Dade County scores 51 for restaurants and cafes (upper middle), #1,155 of 2,405 scored counties.
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