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Restaurants and cafes in Harper County, OK
How Harper County, OK compares with other counties and the U.S. for restaurants and cafes: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
- Listings
- 18
- 3 chain locations (17%)
- Official establishments
- 4
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $4.5M
- On food away from home · $3,346 a household
- Spending per listing
- $248K
- 33% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 135.0
- 23% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 3,172
- −2.3% since 2020
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What this means
At $3,346 per household (18% below the U.S. average), households in Harper County spend about $4.5M a year on food away from home. That works out to $248K per restaurant, 33% below the U.S. figure of $371K.
There are 18 restaurants and cafes on map listings in Harper County as of September 2026. 3 of them (17%) are chain locations, against 34% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 135.0, 23% above the U.S. rate of 109.8.
In 2023, official counts showed 4 businesses with payroll in Harper County classed as restaurants and other eating places. That is one for every 333 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Another 7 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $275K has gone to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in Harper County.
Population estimates put the population change in Harper County from 2020 to 2025 at −2.3%, against +3.1% for the U.S. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t given a market score, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
How Harper County compares
The same measures for Oklahoma 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 | Harper County | Oklahoma | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 135.0 | 107.6 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $248K | $327K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 333 | 227 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +5.3% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −2.3% | +4.0% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,346 | $3,519 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $64,053 | $65,039 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 36 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 3 → 4
- Employees, 2023
- 9
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $104K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 7Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 183 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 12The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $275K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in Harper 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 Harper County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 3,172−2.3% since 2020
- Households
- 1,333
- Median age
- 41.4
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 84%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.3
- Land area
- 1,039 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 3
- Median household income
- $64,053
- Average household income
- $76,094
- Median home value
- $99,200
- Jobs located here
- 877
- Daytime population
- 2,589Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Oklahoma
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Rogers County, OK | 87 | 215 | 58.6 | $663K | +7.1% | #43 of 2,405 |
| 2Wagoner County, OK | 87 | 229 | 73.0 | $529K | +14.6% | #47 of 2,405 |
| 3Logan County, OK | 86 | 149 | 83.5 | $482K | +11.5% | #56 of 2,405 |
| 4Grady County, OK | 79 | 148 | 71.5 | $520K | +7.7% | #154 of 2,405 |
| 5Canadian County, OK | 79 | 470 | 80.7 | $501K | +20.4% | #155 of 2,405 |
| 6Washita County, OK | 71 | 20 | 48.4 | $683K | −0.2% | #357 of 2,405 |
| 7Creek County, OK | 71 | 199 | 70.5 | $485K | +4.4% | #375 of 2,405 |
| 8Osage County, OK | 71 | 125 | 71.9 | $485K | +2.2% | #376 of 2,405 |
| 9Lincoln County, OK | 65 | 104 | 79.1 | $425K | +5.3% | #574 of 2,405 |
| 10McClain County, OK | 61 | 167 | 101.7 | $390K | +18.4% | #733 of 2,405 |
| Harper County, OK | Not scored | 18 | 135.0 | $248K | −2.3% |
Other business types in Harper County
None has a Groundwork market score here. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
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Questions
How many restaurants and cafes are in Harper County, OK?
As of September 2026, map listings count 18 restaurants and cafes in Harper County. 3 of them (17%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 4 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023. Official counts list 7 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Harper County, OK spend on food away from home?
About $4.5M a year, or $3,346 per household. That is 18% below the U.S. average (an index of 82, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 18 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $248K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 1,333 households in Harper County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Harper County, OK compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
Harper County has 135.0 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 23% above the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $248K, 33% below the U.S. figure of $371K. At the U.S. ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, Harper County would have about 12, against 18 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 333 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S.
How fast is Harper County, OK growing?
Population estimates put Harper County at 3,172 people in 2025, down 2.3% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 1,333 households. Median household income in Harper County is $64,053, 21% below the U.S. median of $80,734.
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. The score leaves out counties under 10,000 people, where a handful of businesses would swing it.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
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