Food and drink · Small-town market · New York
Restaurants and cafes in the Olean, NY area
How the Olean, 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 33 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #436 of 538 scored small-town markets
#13 of 14 scored small-town markets based in New York
- Listings
- 320
- 70 chain locations (22%)
- Official establishments
- 136
- −12.8% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $104.8M
- On food away from home · $3,286 a household
- Spending per listing
- $328K
- 12% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 100.3
- 9% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 75,390
- −2.1% since 2020
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What this means
For restaurants and cafes, the Olean area has a Groundwork market score of 33 (lower middle): #436 of 538 scored small-town markets and #13 of 14 scored small-town markets based in New York. That puts it in the bottom quarter of small-town markets.
Household spending on food away from home in the Olean area comes to about $104.8M a year: $3,286 per household, 19% below the U.S. average. That works out to $328K per restaurant, 12% below the U.S. figure of $371K.
There are 320 restaurants and cafes on map listings in the Olean area as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 22% of them, against 34% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 100.3, 9% below the U.S. rate of 109.8.
Official counts show 136 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in the Olean area in 2023, down 12.8% from 2019. That is one for every 235 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 7 SBA-backed loans worth $647K have gone to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in the Olean area. Population estimates show the Olean area declined 2.1% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S.
How the Olean 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 | Olean area | New York | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 100.3 | 127.6 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $328K | $335K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 235 | 172 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | −12.8% | +0.5% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −2.1% | −0.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,286 | $4,270 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $59,540 | $85,974 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 33 | 24 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 136−12.8% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 1,827
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $41.4M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 14Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 32070 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 283The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 7
- Amount
- $647K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in the Olean 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 Olean area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 75,390−2.1% since 2020
- Households
- 31,895
- Median age
- 43.2
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 75%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.6
- Land area
- 1,308 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 58
- Median household income
- $59,540+22.3% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $75,425
- Median home value
- $113,100
- Jobs located here
- 27,111
- Daytime population
- 72,231Residents 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 |
| 13Olean, NY | 33 | 320 | 100.3 | $328K | −2.1% | #436 of 538 |
Other business types in the Olean area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes33
- Sit-down restaurants29
- Fast food and sandwich shops62
- Pizza44
- Coffee shops and cafes36
- Bakeries and dessert shops23
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Questions
How many restaurants and cafes are in the Olean, NY area?
As of September 2026, map listings count 320 restaurants and cafes in the Olean area. 70 of them (22%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 136 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023, down 12.8% from 2019. Official counts list 14 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in the Olean, NY area spend on food away from home?
About $104.8M a year, or $3,286 per household. That is 19% below the U.S. average (an index of 81, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 320 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $328K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 31,895 households in the Olean area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Olean, NY area compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
The Olean area has 100.3 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 9% below the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $328K, 12% below the U.S. figure of $371K. At the U.S. ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, the Olean area would have about 283, against 320 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 235 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. The official count fell 12.8% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.0% for the U.S.
How fast is the Olean, NY area growing?
Population estimates put the Olean area at 75,390 people in 2025, down 2.1% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 31,895 households. Median household income in the Olean area is $59,540, 26% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 22.3%, 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 Olean area scores 33 for restaurants and cafes (lower middle), #436 of 538 scored small-town markets.
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