Food and drink · Small-town market · North Dakota
Restaurants and cafes in the Jamestown, ND area
How the Jamestown, ND 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 #176 of 538 scored small-town markets
#2 of 4 scored small-town markets based in North Dakota
- Listings
- 84
- 35 chain locations (42%)
- Official establishments
- 37
- +8.8% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $33.7M
- On food away from home · $3,566 a household
- Spending per listing
- $401K
- 8% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 89.0
- 19% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 21,414
- −0.6% since 2020
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What this means
Households in the Jamestown area spend about $33.7M a year on food away from home, or $3,566 per household, 12% below the U.S. average. That works out to $401K per restaurant, 8% above the U.S. figure of $371K.
The Jamestown area has 84 restaurants and cafes on map listings as of September 2026. 35 of them (42%) are chain locations, against 34% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 89.0, 19% below the U.S. rate of 109.8.
Official counts show 37 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in the Jamestown area in 2023, up 8.8% from 2019. That is one for every 255 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $1.7M has gone to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in the Jamestown area.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Jamestown area declined 0.6%, against +3.1% for the U.S. The Groundwork market score for restaurants and cafes in the Jamestown area is 59 (upper middle), #176 of 538 scored small-town markets and #2 of 4 scored small-town markets based in North Dakota.
How the Jamestown area compares
The same measures for North Dakota 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 | Jamestown area | North Dakota | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 89.0 | 105.1 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $401K | $375K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 255 | 247 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +8.8% | +7.5% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −0.6% | +2.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,566 | $3,940 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $61,856 | $76,657 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 59 | 62 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 37+8.8% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 583
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $12.5M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 8435 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 91The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $1.7M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in the Jamestown 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 Jamestown area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 21,414−0.6% since 2020
- Households
- 9,437
- Median age
- 41.3
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 63%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 2,222 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 10
- Median household income
- $61,856+7.3% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $88,326
- Median home value
- $208,400
- Jobs located here
- 10,312
- Daytime population
- 21,126Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top small-town markets in North Dakota
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Wahpeton, ND-MN | 73 | 90 | 94.7 | $404K | 0.0% | #62 of 538 |
| 2Jamestown, ND | 59 | 84 | 89.0 | $401K | −0.6% | #176 of 538 |
| 3Williston, ND | 55 | 177 | 116.8 | $366K | +1.4% | #215 of 538 |
| 4Dickinson, ND | 45 | 192 | 123.8 | $324K | +0.7% | #323 of 538 |
Other business types in the Jamestown area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes59
- Sit-down restaurants61
- Fast food and sandwich shops52
- Pizza63
- Coffee shops and cafes49
- Bakeries and dessert shops61
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Questions
How many restaurants and cafes are in the Jamestown, ND area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 84 restaurants and cafes in the Jamestown area. 35 of them (42%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 37 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023, up 8.8% from 2019.
How much do households in the Jamestown, ND area spend on food away from home?
About $33.7M a year, or $3,566 per household. That is 12% below the U.S. average (an index of 88, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 84 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $401K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 9,437 households in the Jamestown area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Jamestown, ND area compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
The Jamestown area has 89.0 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 19% below the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $401K, 8% above the U.S. figure of $371K. At the U.S. ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, the Jamestown area would have about 91, against 84 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 255 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. The official count rose 8.8% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.0% for the U.S.
How fast is the Jamestown, ND area growing?
Population estimates put the Jamestown area at 21,414 people in 2025, down 0.6% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 9,437 households. Median household income in the Jamestown area is $61,856, 23% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 7.3%, 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 Jamestown area scores 59 for restaurants and cafes (upper middle), #176 of 538 scored small-town markets.
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