Food and drink · Small-town market · Oregon
Restaurants and cafes in the Klamath Falls, OR area
How the Klamath Falls, OR 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 34 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #430 of 538 scored small-town markets
#6 of 12 scored small-town markets based in Oregon
- Listings
- 310
- 96 chain locations (31%)
- Official establishments
- 132
- 0.0% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $95.6M
- On food away from home · $3,298 a household
- Spending per listing
- $309K
- 17% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 106.9
- 3% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 70,274
- +0.9% since 2020
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What this means
The Groundwork market score for restaurants and cafes in the Klamath Falls area is 34 (lower middle), #430 of 538 scored small-town markets and #6 of 12 scored small-town markets based in Oregon. That puts it in the bottom quarter of small-town markets.
At $3,298 per household (19% below the U.S. average), households in the Klamath Falls area spend about $95.6M a year on food away from home. Spread across 310 restaurants and cafes, that is $309K per restaurant, 17% below the U.S. figure of $371K.
There are 310 restaurants and cafes on map listings in the Klamath Falls area as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 31% of them, against 34% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 106.9, 3% below the U.S. rate of 109.8.
In 2023, official counts showed 132 businesses with payroll in the Klamath Falls area classed as restaurants and other eating places, unchanged from 2019. That is one for every 220 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 5 SBA-backed loans worth $917K have gone to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in the Klamath Falls area. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Klamath Falls area grew 0.9%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How the Klamath Falls area compares
The same measures for Oregon 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 | Klamath Falls area | Oregon | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 106.9 | 130.4 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $309K | $312K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 220 | 184 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | 0.0% | +2.8% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +0.9% | +0.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,298 | $4,070 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $58,830 | $83,011 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 34 | 22 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 1320.0% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 1,875
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $39.7M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 39Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 31096 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 258The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 5
- Amount
- $917K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in the Klamath Falls 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 Klamath Falls area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 70,274+0.9% since 2020
- Households
- 28,999
- Median age
- 42.5
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 69%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 5,950 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 12
- Median household income
- $58,830+26.5% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $79,046
- Median home value
- $280,400
- Jobs located here
- 22,844
- Daytime population
- 67,284Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Oregon market ranked →The highest-scoring small-town markets in Oregon for restaurants and cafes, numbered among those based in Oregon, with the Klamath Falls area marked.
Top small-town markets in Oregon
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Hermiston-Pendleton, OR | 44 | 367 | 111.1 | $320K | +1.8% | #338 of 538 |
| 2Roseburg, OR | 41 | 490 | 103.1 | $330K | +0.6% | #364 of 538 |
| 3Ontario, OR-ID | 41 | 205 | 102.6 | $326K | +5.0% | #365 of 538 |
| 4La Grande, OR | 39 | 110 | 100.9 | $349K | −1.0% | #382 of 538 |
| 5Coos Bay-North Bend, OR | 34 | 298 | 103.7 | $330K | −1.5% | #425 of 538 |
| 6Klamath Falls, OR | 34 | 310 | 106.9 | $309K | +0.9% | #430 of 538 |
| 7Hood River, OR | 27 | 231 | 258.4 | $169K | −0.7% | #480 of 538 |
| 8Astoria, OR | 23 | 434 | 241.3 | $154K | −0.6% | #500 of 538 |
| 9Baker City, OR | 21 | 87 | 118.3 | $279K | −0.4% | #513 of 538 |
| 10The Dalles, OR | 20 | 155 | 146.7 | $236K | −1.1% | #517 of 538 |
Other business types in the Klamath Falls area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes34
- Sit-down restaurants33
- Fast food and sandwich shops49
- Pizza48
- Coffee shops and cafes31
- Bakeries and dessert shops58
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Questions
How many restaurants and cafes are in the Klamath Falls, OR area?
As of September 2026, map listings count 310 restaurants and cafes in the Klamath Falls area. 96 of them (31%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 132 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023, unchanged from 2019. Official counts list 39 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in the Klamath Falls, OR area spend on food away from home?
About $95.6M a year, or $3,298 per household. That is 19% below the U.S. average (an index of 81, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 310 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $309K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 28,999 households in the Klamath Falls area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Klamath Falls, OR area compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
The Klamath Falls area has 106.9 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 3% below the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $309K, 17% below the U.S. figure of $371K. At the U.S. ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, the Klamath Falls area would have about 258, against 310 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 220 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. The official count held level from 2019 to 2023, against +6.0% for the U.S.
How fast is the Klamath Falls, OR area growing?
Population estimates put the Klamath Falls area at 70,274 people in 2025, up 0.9% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 28,999 households. Median household income in the Klamath Falls area is $58,830, 27% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 26.5%, 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 Klamath Falls area scores 34 for restaurants and cafes (lower middle), #430 of 538 scored small-town markets.
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