Food and drink · Small-town market · Pennsylvania
Restaurants and cafes in the Selinsgrove, PA area
How the Selinsgrove, PA 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 45 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #317 of 538 scored small-town markets
#16 of 20 scored small-town markets based in Pennsylvania
- Listings
- 145
- 62 chain locations (43%)
- Official establishments
- 68
- −9.3% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $51.6M
- On food away from home · $3,535 a household
- Spending per listing
- $356K
- 4% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 99.3
- 10% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 39,655
- −0.2% since 2020
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What this means
Household spending on food away from home in the Selinsgrove area comes to about $51.6M a year: $3,535 per household, 13% below the U.S. average. Spread across 145 restaurants and cafes, that is $356K per restaurant, 4% below the U.S. figure of $371K.
The Selinsgrove area has 145 restaurants and cafes on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 43% of them, against 34% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 99.3, 10% below the U.S. rate of 109.8.
In 2023, official counts showed 68 businesses with payroll in the Selinsgrove area classed as restaurants and other eating places, down 9.3% from 2019. That is one for every 215 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Another 11 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts. Since fiscal 2022, 3 SBA-backed loans worth $3M have gone to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in the Selinsgrove area.
Population estimates show the Selinsgrove area declined 0.2% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S. For restaurants and cafes, the Selinsgrove area has a Groundwork market score of 45 (lower middle): #317 of 538 scored small-town markets and #16 of 20 scored small-town markets based in Pennsylvania.
How the Selinsgrove 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 | Selinsgrove area | Pennsylvania | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 99.3 | 100.2 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $356K | $397K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 215 | 237 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | −9.3% | +1.5% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −0.2% | +0.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,535 | $3,973 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $66,876 | $77,971 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 45 | 61 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 68−9.3% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 1,437
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $27.2M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 11Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 14562 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 139The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 3
- Amount
- $3M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in the Selinsgrove 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 Selinsgrove area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 39,655−0.2% since 2020
- Households
- 14,600
- Median age
- 42.5
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 76%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 329 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 121
- Median household income
- $66,876+13.4% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $85,472
- Median home value
- $215,300
- Jobs located here
- 15,607
- Daytime population
- 38,522Residents 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 Selinsgrove 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 |
| 16Selinsgrove, PA | 45 | 145 | 99.3 | $356K | −0.2% | #317 of 538 |
Other business types in the Selinsgrove area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes45
- Sit-down restaurants43
- Fast food and sandwich shops57
- Pizza43
- Coffee shops and cafes51
- Bakeries and dessert shops37
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Questions
How many restaurants and cafes are in the Selinsgrove, PA area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 145 restaurants and cafes in the Selinsgrove area. 62 of them (43%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 68 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023, down 9.3% from 2019. Official counts list 11 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in the Selinsgrove, PA area spend on food away from home?
About $51.6M a year, or $3,535 per household. That is 13% below the U.S. average (an index of 87, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 145 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $356K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 14,600 households in the Selinsgrove area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Selinsgrove, PA area compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
The Selinsgrove area has 99.3 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 10% below the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $356K, 4% below the U.S. figure of $371K. At the U.S. ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, the Selinsgrove area would have about 139, against 145 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 215 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. The official count fell 9.3% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.0% for the U.S.
How fast is the Selinsgrove, PA area growing?
Population estimates put the Selinsgrove area at 39,655 people in 2025, down 0.2% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 14,600 households. Median household income in the Selinsgrove area is $66,876, 17% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 13.4%, 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 Selinsgrove area scores 45 for restaurants and cafes (lower middle), #317 of 538 scored small-town markets.
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