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Restaurants and cafes in the Corning, NY area
How the Corning, NY area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for restaurants and cafes: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 59 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #175 of 538 scored small-town markets
#3 of 14 scored small-town markets based in New York
- Listings
- 341
- 80 chain locations (23%)
- Official establishments
- 152
- −3.8% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $139.5M
- On food away from home · $3,558 a household
- Spending per listing
- $409K
- 10% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 86.9
- 21% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 91,855
- −1.6% since 2020
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 341 restaurants and cafes in the Corning area. Chain locations make up 23% of them, against 34% across the U.S. That comes to 86.9 for every 10,000 households, 21% below the U.S. rate of 109.8.
Household spending on food away from home in the Corning area comes to about $139.5M a year: $3,558 per household, 13% below the U.S. average. Spread across 341 restaurants and cafes, that is $409K per restaurant, 10% above the U.S. figure of $371K.
In 2023, official counts showed 152 businesses with payroll in the Corning area classed as restaurants and other eating places, down 3.8% from 2019. That is one for every 258 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Another 20 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts. Since fiscal 2022, 10 SBA-backed loans worth $1.4M have gone to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in the Corning area.
Population estimates put the population change in the Corning area from 2020 to 2025 at −1.6%, against +3.1% for the U.S. For restaurants and cafes, the Corning area has a Groundwork market score of 59 (upper middle): #175 of 538 scored small-town markets and #3 of 14 scored small-town markets based in New York.
How the Corning area compares
The same measures for New York 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 | Corning area | New York | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 86.9 | 127.6 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $409K | $335K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 258 | 172 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | −3.8% | +0.5% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −1.6% | −0.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,558 | $4,270 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $65,887 | $85,974 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 59 | 24 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 152−3.8% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 1,869
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $44.1M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 20Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 34180 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 376The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 10
- Amount
- $1.4M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in the Corning area, 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 the Corning area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 91,855−1.6% since 2020
- Households
- 39,219
- Median age
- 43.5
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 73%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.7
- Land area
- 1,391 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 67
- Median household income
- $65,887+22.8% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $87,852
- Median home value
- $137,900
- Jobs located here
- 35,180
- Daytime population
- 89,380Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top small-town markets in New York
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Auburn, NY | 60 | 255 | 80.9 | $442K | −2.3% | #165 of 538 |
| 2Batavia, NY | 60 | 232 | 93.3 | $394K | +0.2% | #168 of 538 |
| 3Corning, NY | 59 | 341 | 86.9 | $409K | −1.6% | #175 of 538 |
| 4Plattsburgh, NY | 58 | 291 | 86.7 | $422K | −2.0% | #185 of 538 |
| 5Gloversville, NY | 56 | 186 | 81.3 | $430K | −1.6% | #196 of 538 |
| 6Massena-Ogdensburg, NY | 55 | 342 | 82.1 | $418K | −2.5% | #210 of 538 |
| 7Amsterdam, NY | 55 | 184 | 93.9 | $374K | +1.1% | #213 of 538 |
| 8Monticello, NY | 46 | 384 | 122.2 | $316K | +2.7% | #314 of 538 |
| 9Hudson, NY | 45 | 305 | 114.5 | $364K | −2.1% | #316 of 538 |
| 10Oneonta, NY | 41 | 307 | 132.4 | $273K | +3.8% | #371 of 538 |
Other business types in the Corning area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes59
- Sit-down restaurants58
- Fast food and sandwich shops68
- Pizza61
- Coffee shops and cafes56
- Bakeries and dessert shops39
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Questions
How many restaurants and cafes are in the Corning, NY area?
The Corning area has 341 restaurants and cafes on map listings as of September 2026. 80 of them (23%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 152 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023, down 3.8% from 2019. Official counts list 20 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in the Corning, NY area spend on food away from home?
About $139.5M a year, or $3,558 per household. That is 13% below the U.S. average (an index of 87, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 341 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $409K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 39,219 households in the Corning area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Corning, NY area compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
The Corning area has 86.9 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 21% below the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $409K, 10% above the U.S. figure of $371K. At the national ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, the Corning area would have about 376, against 341 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 258 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. The official count fell 3.8% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.0% for the U.S.
How fast is the Corning, NY area growing?
Population estimates put the Corning area at 91,855 people in 2025, down 1.6% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 39,219 households. The median household income in the Corning area is $65,887 a year, 18% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 22.8% 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. A small-town market is a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people and the county or counties tied to it by commuting. 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 Corning area scores 59 for restaurants and cafes (upper middle), #175 of 538 scored small-town markets.
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