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Restaurants and cafes in Clark County, SD
How Clark County, SD 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
- 14
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 7
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $4.8M
- On food away from home · $3,623 a household
- Spending per listing
- $346K
- 7% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 104.8
- 5% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 4,031
- +4.7% since 2020
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 14 restaurants and cafes in Clark County. None of them are chain locations, against 34% across the U.S. That comes to 104.8 for every 10,000 households, 5% below the U.S. rate of 109.8.
Household spending on food away from home in Clark County comes to about $4.8M a year: $3,623 per household, 11% below the U.S. average. That is about $346K of household spending for each restaurant on map listings, 7% below the U.S. figure of $371K.
Official counts show 7 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in Clark County in 2023. That is one for every 191 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S.
Population estimates show Clark County grew 4.7% from 2020 to 2025, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). Counties under 10,000 people aren’t given a market score, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
How Clark County compares
The same measures for South 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 | Clark County | South Dakota | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 104.8 | 106.8 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $346K | $361K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 191 | 232 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +6.4% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +4.7% | +5.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,623 | $3,849 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $70,726 | $75,081 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 56 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 3 → 7
- Employees, 2023
- 40
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $528K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 140 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 13The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in Clark 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 Clark County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 4,031+4.7% since 2020
- Households
- 1,336
- Median age
- 39.8
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 78%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.5
- Land area
- 958 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 4
- Median household income
- $70,726
- Average household income
- $90,733
- Median home value
- $158,400
- Jobs located here
- 1,180
- Daytime population
- 3,541Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in South Dakota
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Lincoln County, SD | 94 | 182 | 65.3 | $694K | +17.5% | #6 of 2,405 |
| 2Union County, SD | 81 | 67 | 91.7 | $471K | +3.3% | #128 of 2,405 |
| 3Meade County, SD | 75 | 99 | 82.7 | $469K | +2.7% | #249 of 2,405 |
| 4Minnehaha County, SD | 55 | 892 | 105.2 | $377K | +7.6% | #982 of 2,405 |
| 5Brown County, SD | 53 | 143 | 87.8 | $425K | −1.7% | #1,045 of 2,405 |
| 6Oglala Lakota County, SD | 51 | 19 | 65.0 | $431K | −2.3% | #1,127 of 2,405 |
| 7Beadle County, SD | 51 | 73 | 96.9 | $369K | +2.4% | #1,156 of 2,405 |
| 8Hughes County, SD | 49 | 77 | 106.2 | $374K | −0.9% | #1,237 of 2,405 |
| 9Brookings County, SD | 49 | 160 | 116.0 | $324K | +9.6% | #1,252 of 2,405 |
| 10Lake County, SD | 47 | 49 | 103.9 | $374K | −0.2% | #1,314 of 2,405 |
| Clark County, SD | Not scored | 14 | 104.8 | $346K | +4.7% |
Other business types in Clark 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 Clark County, SD?
Clark County has 14 restaurants and cafes on map listings as of September 2026. None of them are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 7 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023.
How much do households in Clark County, SD spend on food away from home?
About $4.8M a year, or $3,623 per household. That is 11% below the U.S. average (an index of 89, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 14 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $346K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 1,336 households in Clark County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Clark County, SD compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
Clark County has 104.8 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 5% below the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $346K, 7% below the U.S. figure of $371K. At the national ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, Clark County would have about 13, against 14 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 191 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S.
How fast is Clark County, SD growing?
Population estimates put Clark County at 4,031 people in 2025, up 4.7% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 1,336 households. The median household income in Clark County is $70,726 a year, 12% 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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