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Restaurants and cafes in Hubbard County, MN
How Hubbard County, MN 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 55 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #975 of 2,405 scored counties
#53 of 66 scored counties in Minnesota
- Listings
- 85
- 19 chain locations (22%)
- Official establishments
- 40
- +2.6% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $33.4M
- On food away from home · $3,729 a household
- Spending per listing
- $393K
- 6% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 94.8
- 14% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 22,369
- +4.6% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 85 restaurants and cafes in Hubbard County. Chain locations make up 22% of them, against 34% across the U.S. That is 94.8 per 10,000 households, 14% below the U.S. rate of 109.8.
Household spending on food away from home in Hubbard County comes to about $33.4M a year: $3,729 per household, 8% below the U.S. average. That is about $393K of household spending for each restaurant on map listings, 6% above the U.S. figure of $371K.
Official counts show 40 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in Hubbard County in 2023, up 2.6% from 2019. That is one for every 224 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Another 4 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts. Since fiscal 2022, 3 SBA-backed loans worth $799K have gone to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in Hubbard County.
Population estimates put the population change in Hubbard County from 2020 to 2025 at +4.6%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). For restaurants and cafes, Hubbard County has a Groundwork market score of 55 (upper middle): #975 of 2,405 scored counties and #53 of 66 scored counties in Minnesota.
How Hubbard County compares
The same measures for Minnesota 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 | Hubbard County | Minnesota | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 94.8 | 84.5 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $393K | $512K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 224 | 260 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +2.6% | +2.5% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +4.6% | +2.1% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,729 | $4,330 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $71,995 | $89,062 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 55 | 84 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 39 → 40+2.6% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 417
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $10.2M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 4Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 8519 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 90The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 3
- Amount
- $799K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in Hubbard County, 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 Hubbard County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 22,369+4.6% since 2020
- Households
- 8,964
- Median age
- 48.5
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 83%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 926 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 24
- Median household income
- $71,995+27.0% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $93,977
- Median home value
- $282,600
- Jobs located here
- 5,633
- Daytime population
- 18,175Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Minnesota
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Sherburne County, MN | 93 | 168 | 47.3 | $983K | +6.8% | #7 of 2,405 |
| 2Wright County, MN | 90 | 377 | 69.8 | $671K | +11.1% | #26 of 2,405 |
| 3Isanti County, MN | 88 | 96 | 58.9 | $693K | +7.3% | #34 of 2,405 |
| 4Carver County, MN | 87 | 309 | 75.0 | $702K | +6.6% | #42 of 2,405 |
| 5Anoka County, MN | 86 | 891 | 64.8 | $703K | +4.7% | #48 of 2,405 |
| 6Dodge County, MN | 86 | 50 | 61.9 | $700K | +2.3% | #49 of 2,405 |
| 7Washington County, MN | 86 | 783 | 74.2 | $677K | +6.9% | #50 of 2,405 |
| 8Chisago County, MN | 86 | 148 | 69.3 | $646K | +4.3% | #51 of 2,405 |
| 9Scott County, MN | 85 | 418 | 76.0 | $678K | +5.1% | #61 of 2,405 |
| 10Clay County, MN | 85 | 171 | 64.7 | $614K | +3.6% | #63 of 2,405 |
| 53Hubbard County, MN | 55 | 85 | 94.8 | $393K | +4.6% | #975 of 2,405 |
Other business types in Hubbard County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes55
- Sit-down restaurants46
- Fast food and sandwich shops85
- Pizza72
- Coffee shops and cafes38
- Bakeries and dessert shops45
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Questions
How many restaurants and cafes are in Hubbard County, MN?
There are 85 restaurants and cafes on map listings in Hubbard County as of September 2026. 19 of them (22%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 40 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023, up 2.6% from 2019. Official counts list 4 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Hubbard County, MN spend on food away from home?
About $33.4M a year, or $3,729 per household. That is 8% below the U.S. average (an index of 92, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 85 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $393K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 8,964 households in Hubbard County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Hubbard County, MN compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
Hubbard County has 94.8 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 14% below the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $393K, 6% above the U.S. figure of $371K. At the national ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, Hubbard County would have about 90, against 85 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 224 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. The official count rose 2.6% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.0% for the U.S.
How fast is Hubbard County, MN growing?
Population estimates put Hubbard County at 22,369 people in 2025, up 4.6% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 8,964 households. The median household income in Hubbard County is $71,995 a year, 11% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 27.0% 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. Hubbard County scores 55 for restaurants and cafes (upper middle), #975 of 2,405 scored counties.
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