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Restaurants and cafes in Hickory County, MO
How Hickory County, MO compares with other counties and the U.S. for restaurants and cafes: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
- Listings
- 46
- 21 chain locations (46%)
- Official establishments
- 11
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $10M
- On food away from home · $2,774 a household
- Spending per listing
- $217K
- 41% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 127.7
- 16% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 9,044
- +8.9% since 2020
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What this means
Households in Hickory County spend about $10M a year on food away from home, or $2,774 per household, 32% below the U.S. average. Spread across 46 restaurants and cafes, that is $217K per restaurant, 41% below the U.S. figure of $371K.
Hickory County has 46 restaurants and cafes on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 46% of them, against 34% across the U.S. That is 127.7 per 10,000 households, 16% above the U.S. rate of 109.8.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in Hickory County was 11 in 2023. That is one for every 327 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $250K has gone to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in Hickory County.
Population estimates put the population change in Hickory County from 2020 to 2025 at +8.9%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). Counties under 10,000 people aren’t given a market score, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
How Hickory County compares
The same measures for Missouri 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 | Hickory County | Missouri | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 127.7 | 98.6 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $217K | $385K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 327 | 235 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +6.2% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +8.9% | +1.9% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $2,774 | $3,799 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $39,390 | $70,702 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 54 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 11 → 11
- Employees, 2023
- 87
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $1.7M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 4621 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 27The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $250K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in Hickory 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 Hickory County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 9,044+8.9% since 2020
- Households
- 3,601
- Median age
- 52.6
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 82%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 399 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 22
- Median household income
- $39,390
- Average household income
- $54,402
- Median home value
- $176,100
- Jobs located here
- 1,550
- Daytime population
- 6,787Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Missouri
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Lincoln County, MO | 93 | 122 | 53.5 | $759K | +11.4% | #10 of 2,405 |
| 2Warren County, MO | 89 | 90 | 65.0 | $617K | +9.2% | #32 of 2,405 |
| 3Christian County, MO | 84 | 237 | 67.4 | $594K | +8.3% | #72 of 2,405 |
| 4Andrew County, MO | 82 | 31 | 44.4 | $861K | +0.7% | #99 of 2,405 |
| 5Jefferson County, MO | 82 | 539 | 61.0 | $656K | +2.7% | #104 of 2,405 |
| 6Cass County, MO | 82 | 330 | 76.4 | $548K | +7.1% | #109 of 2,405 |
| 7Ray County, MO | 80 | 50 | 54.8 | $680K | +1.1% | #131 of 2,405 |
| 8Osage County, MO | 80 | 34 | 64.3 | $593K | +2.7% | #136 of 2,405 |
| 9Webster County, MO | 78 | 103 | 73.8 | $490K | +10.4% | #180 of 2,405 |
| 10Douglas County, MO | 76 | 22 | 47.3 | $647K | +6.4% | #216 of 2,405 |
| Hickory County, MO | Not scored | 46 | 127.7 | $217K | +8.9% |
Other business types in Hickory County
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 Hickory County, MO?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 46 restaurants and cafes in Hickory County. 21 of them (46%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 11 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023.
How much do households in Hickory County, MO spend on food away from home?
About $10M a year, or $2,774 per household. That is 32% below the U.S. average (an index of 68, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 46 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $217K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 3,601 households in Hickory County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Hickory County, MO compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
Hickory County has 127.7 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 16% above the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $217K, 41% below the U.S. figure of $371K. At the U.S. ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, Hickory County would have about 27, against 46 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 327 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S.
How fast is Hickory County, MO growing?
Population estimates put Hickory County at 9,044 people in 2025, up 8.9% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 3,601 households. Median household income in Hickory County is $39,390, 51% 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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