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Restaurants and cafes in Plaquemines Parish, LA
How Plaquemines 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 37 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #1,735 of 2,405 scored counties
#39 of 56 scored counties in Louisiana
- Listings
- 90
- 17 chain locations (19%)
- Official establishments
- 39
- +8.3% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $32.6M
- On food away from home · $3,973 a household
- Spending per listing
- $363K
- 2% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 109.5
- In line with the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 22,256
- −5.3% since 2020
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What this means
Households in Plaquemines Parish spend about $32.6M a year on food away from home, or $3,973 per household, 2% below the U.S. average. That is about $363K of household spending for each restaurant on map listings, 2% below the U.S. figure of $371K.
Plaquemines Parish has 90 restaurants and cafes on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 19% of them, against 34% across the U.S. That is 109.5 per 10,000 households, in line with the U.S. rate of 109.8.
Official counts show 39 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in Plaquemines Parish in 2023, up 8.3% from 2019. That is one for every 211 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Another 15 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts. Since fiscal 2022, 2 SBA-backed loans worth $254K have gone to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in Plaquemines Parish.
Population estimates show Plaquemines Parish declined 5.3% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S. The Groundwork market score for restaurants and cafes in Plaquemines Parish is 37 (lower middle), #1,735 of 2,405 scored counties and #39 of 56 scored counties in Louisiana.
How Plaquemines 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 | Plaquemines Parish | Louisiana | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 109.5 | 110.6 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $363K | $314K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 211 | 225 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +8.3% | +5.8% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −5.3% | −0.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,973 | $3,469 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $86,315 | $60,756 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 37 | 19 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 36 → 39+8.3% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 458
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $9.7M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 15Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 9017 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 88The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 2
- Amount
- $254K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in Plaquemines 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 Plaquemines Parish
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 22,256−5.3% since 2020
- Households
- 8,218
- Median age
- 38.9
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 76%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 781 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 29
- Median household income
- $86,315+50.9% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $100,930
- Median home value
- $282,900
- Jobs located here
- 11,184
- Daytime population
- 24,508Residents 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 |
| 39Plaquemines Parish, LA | 37 | 90 | 109.5 | $363K | −5.3% | #1,735 of 2,405 |
Other business types in Plaquemines Parish
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes37
- Sit-down restaurants42
- Fast food and sandwich shops39
- Pizza
- Coffee shops and cafes27
- Bakeries and dessert shops
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Questions
How many restaurants and cafes are in Plaquemines Parish, LA?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 90 restaurants and cafes in Plaquemines Parish. 17 of them (19%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 39 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023, up 8.3% from 2019. Official counts list 15 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Plaquemines Parish, LA spend on food away from home?
About $32.6M a year, or $3,973 per household. That is 2% below the U.S. average (an index of 98, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 90 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $363K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 8,218 households in Plaquemines Parish and national spending patterns by income.
How does Plaquemines Parish, LA compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
Plaquemines Parish has 109.5 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, in line with the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $363K, 2% below the U.S. figure of $371K. At the U.S. ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, Plaquemines Parish would have about 88, against 90 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 211 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. The official count rose 8.3% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.0% for the U.S.
How fast is Plaquemines Parish, LA growing?
Population estimates put Plaquemines Parish at 22,256 people in 2025, down 5.3% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 8,218 households. Median household income in Plaquemines Parish is $86,315, 7% above the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 50.9%, 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. Plaquemines Parish scores 37 for restaurants and cafes (lower middle), #1,735 of 2,405 scored counties.
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