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Restaurants and cafes in Ripley County, MO
How Ripley County, MO 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 45 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #1,405 of 2,405 scored counties
#46 of 85 scored counties in Missouri
- Listings
- 31
- 19 chain locations (61%)
- Official establishments
- 10
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $11.2M
- On food away from home · $2,801 a household
- Spending per listing
- $362K
- 2% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 77.5
- 29% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 10,717
- +0.4% since 2020
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 31 restaurants and cafes in Ripley County. Chain locations make up 61% of them, against 34% across the U.S. That comes to 77.5 for every 10,000 households, 29% below the U.S. rate of 109.8.
Household spending on food away from home in Ripley County comes to about $11.2M a year: $2,801 per household, 31% below the U.S. average. That works out to $362K per restaurant, 2% below the U.S. figure of $371K.
In 2023, official counts showed 10 businesses with payroll in Ripley County classed as restaurants and other eating places. That is one for every 400 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Ripley County grew 0.4%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). The Groundwork market score for restaurants and cafes in Ripley County is 45 (lower middle), #1,405 of 2,405 scored counties and #46 of 85 scored counties in Missouri.
How Ripley 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 | Ripley County | Missouri | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 77.5 | 98.6 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $362K | $385K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 400 | 235 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +6.2% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +0.4% | +1.9% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $2,801 | $3,799 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $42,037 | $70,702 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 45 | 54 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 12 → 10
- Employees, 2023
- 143
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $2.3M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 3119 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 30The 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 Ripley 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 Ripley County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 10,717+0.4% since 2020
- Households
- 4,002
- Median age
- 41.0
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 79%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.8
- Land area
- 630 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 17
- Median household income
- $42,037+20.2% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $55,178
- Median home value
- $119,600
- Jobs located here
- 2,749
- Daytime population
- 8,959Residents 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 |
| 46Ripley County, MO | 45 | 31 | 77.5 | $362K | +0.4% | #1,405 of 2,405 |
Other business types in Ripley County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes45
- Sit-down restaurants34
- Fast food and sandwich shops
- Pizza29
- Coffee shops and cafes
- Bakeries and dessert shops
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Questions
How many restaurants and cafes are in Ripley County, MO?
Ripley County has 31 restaurants and cafes on map listings as of September 2026. 19 of them (61%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 10 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023.
How much do households in Ripley County, MO spend on food away from home?
About $11.2M a year, or $2,801 per household. That is 31% below the U.S. average (an index of 69, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 31 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $362K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 4,002 households in Ripley County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Ripley County, MO compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
Ripley County has 77.5 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 29% below the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $362K, 2% below the U.S. figure of $371K. At the national ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, Ripley County would have about 30, against 31 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 400 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S.
How fast is Ripley County, MO growing?
Population estimates put Ripley County at 10,717 people in 2025, up 0.4% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 4,002 households. The median household income in Ripley County is $42,037 a year, 48% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 20.2% 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. Ripley County scores 45 for restaurants and cafes (lower middle), #1,405 of 2,405 scored counties.
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