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Restaurants and cafes in Claiborne Parish, LA
How Claiborne Parish, LA 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 #1,120 of 2,405 scored counties
#21 of 56 scored counties in Louisiana
- Listings
- 28
- 9 chain locations (32%)
- Official establishments
- 7
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $13M
- On food away from home · $2,514 a household
- Spending per listing
- $463K
- 25% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 54.3
- 51% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 13,354
- −5.3% since 2020
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 28 restaurants and cafes in Claiborne Parish. Chain locations make up 32% of them, against 34% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 54.3, 51% below the U.S. rate of 109.8.
At $2,514 per household (38% below the U.S. average), households in Claiborne Parish spend about $13M a year on food away from home. Spread across 28 restaurants and cafes, that is $463K per restaurant, 25% above the U.S. figure of $371K.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in Claiborne Parish was 7 in 2023. That is one for every 736 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Official counts also show 4 one-person businesses without payroll.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Claiborne Parish declined 5.3%, against +3.1% for the U.S. For restaurants and cafes, Claiborne Parish has a Groundwork market score of 51 (upper middle): #1,120 of 2,405 scored counties and #21 of 56 scored counties in Louisiana.
How Claiborne Parish compares
The same measures for Louisiana 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 | Claiborne Parish | Louisiana | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 54.3 | 110.6 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $463K | $314K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 736 | 225 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +5.8% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −5.3% | −0.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $2,514 | $3,469 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $32,831 | $60,756 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 51 | 19 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 9 → 7
- Employees, 2023
- 78
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $1.3M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 4Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 289 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 35The 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 Claiborne Parish, 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 Claiborne Parish
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 13,354−5.3% since 2020
- Households
- 5,155
- Median age
- 42.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 69%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.4
- Land area
- 755 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 18
- Median household income
- $32,831+22.6% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $51,546
- Median home value
- $82,100
- Jobs located here
- 2,994
- Daytime population
- 11,480Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Louisiana
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Grant Parish, LA | 74 | 15 | 20.2 | $1.7M | −0.3% | #253 of 2,405 |
| 2East Feliciana Parish, LA | 74 | 31 | 48.4 | $773K | −2.8% | #254 of 2,405 |
| 3Livingston Parish, LA | 74 | 424 | 79.1 | $476K | +8.5% | #275 of 2,405 |
| 4Beauregard Parish, LA | 70 | 76 | 55.3 | $642K | +0.2% | #391 of 2,405 |
| 5Winn Parish, LA | 69 | 31 | 64.7 | $477K | +9.1% | #431 of 2,405 |
| 6Ascension Parish, LA | 68 | 448 | 94.0 | $454K | +6.4% | #456 of 2,405 |
| 7De Soto Parish, LA | 66 | 69 | 65.7 | $487K | +2.0% | #509 of 2,405 |
| 8St. Helena Parish, LA | 65 | 13 | 31.1 | $919K | −1.2% | #530 of 2,405 |
| 9Assumption Parish, LA | 64 | 36 | 40.8 | $793K | −5.9% | #582 of 2,405 |
| 10Jackson Parish, LA | 61 | 37 | 66.4 | $436K | +5.6% | #720 of 2,405 |
| 21Claiborne Parish, LA | 51 | 28 | 54.3 | $463K | −5.3% | #1,120 of 2,405 |
Other business types in Claiborne Parish
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes51
- Sit-down restaurants27
- Fast food and sandwich shops29
- Pizza
- Coffee shops and cafes
- Bakeries and dessert shops
Groceries and convenience
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Fitness and classes
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Questions
How many restaurants and cafes are in Claiborne Parish, LA?
Claiborne Parish has 28 restaurants and cafes on map listings as of September 2026. 9 of them (32%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 7 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023. Another 4 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.
How much do households in Claiborne Parish, LA spend on food away from home?
About $13M a year, or $2,514 per household. That is 38% below the U.S. average (an index of 62, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 28 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $463K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 5,155 households in Claiborne Parish and national spending patterns by income.
How does Claiborne Parish, LA compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
Claiborne Parish has 54.3 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 51% below the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $463K, 25% above the U.S. figure of $371K. At the national ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, Claiborne Parish would have about 35, against 28 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 736 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S.
How fast is Claiborne Parish, LA growing?
Population estimates put Claiborne Parish at 13,354 people in 2025, down 5.3% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 5,155 households. The median household income in Claiborne Parish is $32,831 a year, 59% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 22.6% 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. Claiborne Parish scores 51 for restaurants and cafes (upper middle), #1,120 of 2,405 scored counties.
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