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Restaurants and cafes in St. Charles Parish, LA
How St. Charles 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 59 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #795 of 2,405 scored counties
#11 of 56 scored counties in Louisiana
- Listings
- 166
- 60 chain locations (36%)
- Official establishments
- 64
- +3.2% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $74.1M
- On food away from home · $3,984 a household
- Spending per listing
- $447K
- 20% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 89.2
- 19% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 50,586
- −3.7% since 2020
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 166 restaurants and cafes in St. Charles Parish. Chain locations make up 36% of them, against 34% across the U.S. That is 89.2 per 10,000 households, 19% below the U.S. rate of 109.8.
At $3,984 per household (2% below the U.S. average), households in St. Charles Parish spend about $74.1M a year on food away from home. Spread across 166 restaurants and cafes, that is $447K per restaurant, 20% above the U.S. figure of $371K.
Official counts show 64 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in St. Charles Parish in 2023, up 3.2% from 2019. That is one for every 291 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Official counts also show 27 one-person businesses without payroll.
Population estimates put the population change in St. Charles Parish from 2020 to 2025 at −3.7%, against +3.1% for the U.S. St. Charles Parish scores 59 (upper middle) on the Groundwork market score for restaurants and cafes, ranking #795 of 2,405 scored counties and #11 of 56 scored counties in Louisiana.
How St. Charles 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 | St. Charles Parish | Louisiana | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 89.2 | 110.6 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $447K | $314K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 291 | 225 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +3.2% | +5.8% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −3.7% | −0.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,984 | $3,469 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $80,897 | $60,756 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 59 | 19 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 62 → 64+3.2% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 910
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $17.1M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 27Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 16660 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 200The 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 St. Charles 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 St. Charles Parish
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 50,586−3.7% since 2020
- Households
- 18,608
- Median age
- 39.5
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 82%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 278 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 185
- Median household income
- $80,897+17.2% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $100,861
- Median home value
- $263,700
- Jobs located here
- 26,102
- Daytime population
- 52,685Residents 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 |
| 11St. Charles Parish, LA | 59 | 166 | 89.2 | $447K | −3.7% | #795 of 2,405 |
Other business types in St. Charles Parish
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes59
- Sit-down restaurants58
- Fast food and sandwich shops62
- Pizza69
- Coffee shops and cafes48
- Bakeries and dessert shops59
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Questions
How many restaurants and cafes are in St. Charles Parish, LA?
St. Charles Parish has 166 restaurants and cafes on map listings as of September 2026. 60 of them (36%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 64 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023, up 3.2% from 2019. Another 27 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.
How much do households in St. Charles Parish, LA spend on food away from home?
About $74.1M a year, or $3,984 per household. That is 2% below the U.S. average (an index of 98, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 166 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $447K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 18,608 households in St. Charles Parish and national spending patterns by income.
How does St. Charles Parish, LA compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
St. Charles Parish has 89.2 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 19% below the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $447K, 20% above the U.S. figure of $371K. At the national ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, St. Charles Parish would have about 200, against 166 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 291 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. The official count rose 3.2% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.0% for the U.S.
How fast is St. Charles Parish, LA growing?
Population estimates put St. Charles Parish at 50,586 people in 2025, down 3.7% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 18,608 households. The median household income in St. Charles Parish is $80,897 a year, in line with the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 17.2% 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. St. Charles Parish scores 59 for restaurants and cafes (upper middle), #795 of 2,405 scored counties.
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