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Restaurants and cafes in Tensas Parish, LA
Competitor counts, household spending and official business counts for restaurants and cafes in Tensas Parish, LA, set against other counties and the U.S.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
- Listings
- 11
- 1 chain location (9%)
- Official establishments
- 3
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $3.9M
- On food away from home · $2,475 a household
- Spending per listing
- $355K
- 4% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 69.7
- 37% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 3,700
- −9.9% since 2020
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What this means
At $2,475 per household (39% below the U.S. average), households in Tensas Parish spend about $3.9M a year on food away from home. Spread across 11 restaurants and cafes, that is $355K per restaurant, 4% below the U.S. figure of $371K.
There are 11 restaurants and cafes on map listings in Tensas Parish as of September 2026. One of them (9%) is a chain location, against 34% across the U.S. That is 69.7 per 10,000 households, 37% below the U.S. rate of 109.8.
In 2023, official counts showed 3 businesses with payroll in Tensas Parish classed as restaurants and other eating places. That is one for every 526 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Official counts list 3 one-person businesses without payroll.
Population estimates show Tensas Parish declined 9.9% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t given a market score, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
How Tensas 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 | Tensas Parish | Louisiana | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 69.7 | 110.6 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $355K | $314K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 526 | 225 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +5.8% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −9.9% | −0.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $2,475 | $3,469 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $36,615 | $60,756 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 19 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 3 → 3
- Employees, 2023
- 27
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $628K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 3Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 111 chain location
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 11The 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 Tensas 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 Tensas Parish
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 3,700−9.9% since 2020
- Households
- 1,578
- Median age
- 50.9
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 74%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.6
- Land area
- 603 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 7
- Median household income
- $36,615
- Average household income
- $47,851
- Median home value
- $86,300
- Jobs located here
- 762
- Daytime population
- 3,344Residents 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 |
| Tensas Parish, LA | Not scored | 11 | 69.7 | $355K | −9.9% |
Other business types in Tensas Parish
None has a Groundwork market score here. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
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Questions
How many restaurants and cafes are in Tensas Parish, LA?
As of September 2026, map listings count 11 restaurants and cafes in Tensas Parish. One of them (9%) is a chain location. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 3 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023. Official counts also show 3 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Tensas Parish, LA spend on food away from home?
About $3.9M a year, or $2,475 per household. That is 39% below the U.S. average (an index of 61, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 11 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $355K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 1,578 households in Tensas Parish and national spending patterns by income.
How does Tensas Parish, LA compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
Tensas Parish has 69.7 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 37% below the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $355K, 4% below 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 526 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S.
How fast is Tensas Parish, LA growing?
Population estimates put Tensas Parish at 3,700 people in 2025, down 9.9% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 1,578 households. Median household income in Tensas Parish is $36,615, 55% below the U.S. median of $80,734.
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. The score leaves out counties under 10,000 people, where a handful of businesses would swing it.
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