Food and drink · Small-town market · Pennsylvania
Restaurants and cafes in the Pottsville, PA area
The restaurants and cafes in the Pottsville, PA area, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other small-town markets.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 71 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #77 of 538 scored small-town markets
#3 of 20 scored small-town markets based in Pennsylvania
- Listings
- 521
- 106 chain locations (20%)
- Official establishments
- 176
- −9.7% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $203.8M
- On food away from home · $3,515 a household
- Spending per listing
- $391K
- 6% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 89.8
- 18% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 145,085
- +1.5% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 521 restaurants and cafes in the Pottsville area. Chain locations make up 20% of them, against 34% across the U.S. That is 89.8 per 10,000 households, 18% below the U.S. rate of 109.8.
At $3,515 per household (14% below the U.S. average), households in the Pottsville area spend about $203.8M a year on food away from home. That is about $391K of household spending for each restaurant on map listings, 6% above the U.S. figure of $371K.
In 2023, official counts showed 176 businesses with payroll in the Pottsville area classed as restaurants and other eating places, down 9.7% from 2019. That is one for every 329 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Another 71 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $65K has gone to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in the Pottsville area.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Pottsville area grew 1.5%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). The Pottsville area scores 71 (upper middle) on the Groundwork market score for restaurants and cafes, ranking #77 of 538 scored small-town markets and #3 of 20 scored small-town markets based in Pennsylvania. That puts it in the top quarter of small-town markets.
How the Pottsville area compares
The same measures for Pennsylvania 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 | Pottsville area | Pennsylvania | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 89.8 | 100.2 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $391K | $397K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 329 | 237 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | −9.7% | +1.5% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +1.5% | +0.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,515 | $3,973 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $68,313 | $77,971 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 71 | 61 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 176−9.7% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 2,215
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $37M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 71Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 521106 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 550The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $65K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in the Pottsville 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 Pottsville area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 145,085+1.5% since 2020
- Households
- 57,988
- Median age
- 43.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 76%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 779 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 184
- Median household income
- $68,313+30.7% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $85,756
- Median home value
- $153,000
- Jobs located here
- 51,690
- Daytime population
- 129,785Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Pennsylvania market ranked →The highest-scoring small-town markets in Pennsylvania for restaurants and cafes, numbered among those based in Pennsylvania, with the Pottsville area marked.
Top small-town markets in Pennsylvania
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Hemlock Farms, PA | 94 | 181 | 74.6 | $534K | +7.2% | #1 of 538 |
| 2Sayre, PA | 72 | 179 | 72.7 | $480K | −0.6% | #64 of 538 |
| 3Pottsville, PA | 71 | 521 | 89.8 | $391K | +1.5% | #77 of 538 |
| 4Sunbury, PA | 67 | 353 | 77.2 | $450K | −1.7% | #102 of 538 |
| 5Lock Haven, PA | 67 | 128 | 83.0 | $409K | +1.3% | #104 of 538 |
| 6Huntingdon, PA | 66 | 122 | 74.7 | $466K | −2.4% | #107 of 538 |
| 7Oil City, PA | 65 | 147 | 68.7 | $480K | −2.0% | #118 of 538 |
| 8Lewistown, PA | 63 | 138 | 74.6 | $444K | 0.0% | #138 of 538 |
| 9Warren, PA | 60 | 119 | 73.8 | $448K | −3.8% | #163 of 538 |
| 10Lewisburg, PA | 56 | 141 | 96.9 | $394K | −0.8% | #199 of 538 |
Other business types in the Pottsville area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes71
- Sit-down restaurants64
- Fast food and sandwich shops79
- Pizza66
- Coffee shops and cafes79
- Bakeries and dessert shops48
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Questions
How many restaurants and cafes are in the Pottsville, PA area?
There are 521 restaurants and cafes on map listings in the Pottsville area as of September 2026. 106 of them (20%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 176 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023, down 9.7% from 2019. Official counts list 71 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in the Pottsville, PA area spend on food away from home?
About $203.8M a year, or $3,515 per household. That is 14% below the U.S. average (an index of 86, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 521 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $391K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 57,988 households in the Pottsville area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Pottsville, PA area compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
The Pottsville area has 89.8 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 18% below the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $391K, 6% above the U.S. figure of $371K. At the national ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, the Pottsville area would have about 550, against 521 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 329 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. The official count fell 9.7% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.0% for the U.S.
How fast is the Pottsville, PA area growing?
Population estimates put the Pottsville area at 145,085 people in 2025, up 1.5% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 57,988 households. The median household income in the Pottsville area is $68,313 a year, 15% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 30.7% 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 Pottsville area scores 71 for restaurants and cafes (upper middle), #77 of 538 scored small-town markets.
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