Food and drink · Small-town market · Kentucky
Restaurants and cafes in the Madisonville, KY area
The restaurants and cafes in the Madisonville, KY area, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other small-town markets.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 56 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #200 of 538 scored small-town markets
#10 of 15 scored small-town markets based in Kentucky
- Listings
- 150
- 70 chain locations (47%)
- Official establishments
- 60
- +11.1% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $58M
- On food away from home · $3,153 a household
- Spending per listing
- $387K
- 4% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 81.5
- 26% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 45,127
- −0.5% since 2020
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What this means
Households in the Madisonville area spend about $58M a year on food away from home, or $3,153 per household, 23% below the U.S. average. Spread across 150 restaurants and cafes, that is $387K per restaurant, 4% above the U.S. figure of $371K.
The Madisonville area has 150 restaurants and cafes on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 47% of them, against 34% across the U.S. That comes to 81.5 for every 10,000 households, 26% below the U.S. rate of 109.8.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in the Madisonville area was 60 in 2023, up 11.1% from 2019. That is one for every 307 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Another 17 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $2M has gone to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in the Madisonville area.
Population estimates put the population change in the Madisonville area from 2020 to 2025 at −0.5%, against +3.1% for the U.S. The Madisonville area scores 56 (upper middle) on the Groundwork market score for restaurants and cafes, ranking #200 of 538 scored small-town markets and #10 of 15 scored small-town markets based in Kentucky.
How the Madisonville area compares
The same measures for Kentucky 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 | Madisonville area | Kentucky | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 81.5 | 89.4 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $387K | $390K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 307 | 260 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +11.1% | +5.0% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −0.5% | +2.2% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,153 | $3,489 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $56,815 | $63,726 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 56 | 58 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 60+11.1% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 1,240
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $21.7M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 17Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 15070 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 156The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $2M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in the Madisonville 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 Madisonville area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 45,127−0.5% since 2020
- Households
- 18,397
- Median age
- 40.6
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 71%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 542 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 83
- Median household income
- $56,815+20.5% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $70,892
- Median home value
- $142,800
- Jobs located here
- 16,599
- Daytime population
- 43,041Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Kentucky market ranked →The highest-scoring small-town markets in Kentucky for restaurants and cafes, numbered among those based in Kentucky, with the Madisonville area marked.
Top small-town markets in Kentucky
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Richmond-Berea, KY | 79 | 358 | 72.2 | $463K | +7.0% | #33 of 538 |
| 2Mount Sterling, KY | 77 | 115 | 63.3 | $501K | +3.1% | #40 of 538 |
| 3Campbellsville, KY | 73 | 101 | 68.8 | $457K | +3.4% | #61 of 538 |
| 4Mayfield, KY | 72 | 85 | 60.1 | $522K | +1.4% | #63 of 538 |
| 5Frankfort, KY | 65 | 291 | 89.9 | $396K | +3.1% | #127 of 538 |
| 6Danville, KY | 63 | 182 | 83.7 | $386K | +3.6% | #144 of 538 |
| 7Corbin, KY | 60 | 383 | 67.7 | $433K | +0.1% | #166 of 538 |
| 8Somerset, KY | 59 | 219 | 83.6 | $370K | +3.5% | #179 of 538 |
| 9Henderson, KY | 58 | 179 | 76.3 | $427K | −0.9% | #184 of 538 |
| 10Madisonville, KY | 56 | 150 | 81.5 | $387K | −0.5% | #200 of 538 |
Other business types in the Madisonville area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes56
- Sit-down restaurants56
- Fast food and sandwich shops31
- Pizza28
- Coffee shops and cafes49
- Bakeries and dessert shops62
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Questions
How many restaurants and cafes are in the Madisonville, KY area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 150 restaurants and cafes in the Madisonville area. 70 of them (47%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 60 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023, up 11.1% from 2019. Official counts list 17 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in the Madisonville, KY area spend on food away from home?
About $58M a year, or $3,153 per household. That is 23% below the U.S. average (an index of 77, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 150 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $387K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 18,397 households in the Madisonville area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Madisonville, KY area compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
The Madisonville area has 81.5 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 26% below the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $387K, 4% above the U.S. figure of $371K. At the U.S. ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, the Madisonville area would have about 156, against 150 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 307 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. The official count rose 11.1% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.0% for the U.S.
How fast is the Madisonville, KY area growing?
Population estimates put the Madisonville area at 45,127 people in 2025, down 0.5% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 18,397 households. Median household income in the Madisonville area is $56,815, 30% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 20.5%, 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. A small-town market is a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people and the county or counties tied to it by commuting. 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 Madisonville area scores 56 for restaurants and cafes (upper middle), #200 of 538 scored small-town markets.
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