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Restaurants and cafes in Churchill County, NV
How Churchill County, NV 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 51 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #1,142 of 2,405 scored counties
#4 of 9 scored counties in Nevada
- Listings
- 91
- 28 chain locations (31%)
- Official establishments
- 41
- +13.9% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $36M
- On food away from home · $3,783 a household
- Spending per listing
- $396K
- 7% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 95.6
- 13% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 25,851
- +1.1% since 2020
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What this means
At $3,783 per household (7% below the U.S. average), households in Churchill County spend about $36M a year on food away from home. That works out to $396K per restaurant, 7% above the U.S. figure of $371K.
Churchill County has 91 restaurants and cafes on map listings as of September 2026. 28 of them (31%) are chain locations, against 34% across the U.S. That is 95.6 per 10,000 households, 13% below the U.S. rate of 109.8.
Official counts show 41 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in Churchill County in 2023, up 13.9% from 2019. That is one for every 232 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Another 9 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts. Since fiscal 2022, 3 SBA-backed loans worth $768K have gone to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in Churchill County.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Churchill County grew 1.1%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). The Groundwork market score for restaurants and cafes in Churchill County is 51 (upper middle), #1,142 of 2,405 scored counties and #4 of 9 scored counties in Nevada.
How Churchill County compares
The same measures for Nevada 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 | Churchill County | Nevada | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 95.6 | 130.3 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $396K | $302K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 232 | 194 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +13.9% | +15.2% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +1.1% | +5.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,783 | $3,930 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $79,163 | $78,260 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 51 | 32 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 36 → 41+13.9% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 565
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $12.9M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 9Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 9128 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 97The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 3
- Amount
- $768K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in Churchill 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 Churchill County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 25,851+1.1% since 2020
- Households
- 9,516
- Median age
- 40.4
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 70%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.2
- Land area
- 4,950 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 5
- Median household income
- $79,163+36.9% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $94,538
- Median home value
- $329,900
- Jobs located here
- 8,037
- Daytime population
- 22,681Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Nevada
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Lyon County, NV | 84 | 167 | 70.3 | $547K | +9.5% | #75 of 2,405 |
| 2Nye County, NV | 66 | 193 | 87.0 | $395K | +10.3% | #526 of 2,405 |
| 3Washoe County, NV | 55 | 2,175 | 109.1 | $385K | +4.4% | #980 of 2,405 |
| 4Churchill County, NV | 51 | 91 | 95.6 | $396K | +1.1% | #1,142 of 2,405 |
| 5Douglas County, NV | 47 | 255 | 119.6 | $360K | +1.2% | #1,321 of 2,405 |
| 6Elko County, NV | 46 | 228 | 116.2 | $342K | +2.1% | #1,365 of 2,405 |
| 7Clark County, NV | 38 | 11,972 | 138.8 | $280K | +5.8% | #1,720 of 2,405 |
| 8Humboldt County, NV | 31 | 81 | 117.2 | $322K | 0.0% | #1,978 of 2,405 |
| 9Carson City, NV | 26 | 307 | 129.6 | $287K | −0.2% | #2,161 of 2,405 |
Other business types in Churchill County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes51
- Sit-down restaurants62
- Fast food and sandwich shops34
- Pizza48
- Coffee shops and cafes41
- Bakeries and dessert shops71
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Questions
How many restaurants and cafes are in Churchill County, NV?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 91 restaurants and cafes in Churchill County. 28 of them (31%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 41 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023, up 13.9% from 2019. Official counts list 9 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Churchill County, NV spend on food away from home?
About $36M a year, or $3,783 per household. That is 7% below the U.S. average (an index of 93, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 91 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $396K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 9,516 households in Churchill County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Churchill County, NV compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
Churchill County has 95.6 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 13% below the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $396K, 7% above the U.S. figure of $371K. At the U.S. ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, Churchill County would have about 97, against 91 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 232 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. The official count rose 13.9% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.0% for the U.S.
How fast is Churchill County, NV growing?
Population estimates put Churchill County at 25,851 people in 2025, up 1.1% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 9,516 households. Median household income in Churchill County is $79,163, 2% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 36.9%, 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. Churchill County scores 51 for restaurants and cafes (upper middle), #1,142 of 2,405 scored counties.
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