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Restaurants and cafes in Dewey County, SD
The restaurants and cafes in Dewey County, SD, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other counties.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
- Listings
- 20
- 6 chain locations (30%)
- Official establishments
- 6
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $5.5M
- On food away from home · $3,244 a household
- Spending per listing
- $274K
- 26% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 118.2
- 8% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 5,419
- +3.8% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 20 restaurants and cafes in Dewey County. Chain locations make up 30% of them, against 34% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 118.2, 8% above the U.S. rate of 109.8.
Household spending on food away from home in Dewey County comes to about $5.5M a year: $3,244 per household, 20% below the U.S. average. Spread across 20 restaurants and cafes, that is $274K per restaurant, 26% below the U.S. figure of $371K.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in Dewey County was 6 in 2023. That is one for every 282 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Official counts list 6 one-person businesses without payroll.
Population estimates show Dewey County grew 3.8% 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 Dewey 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 | Dewey County | South Dakota | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 118.2 | 106.8 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $274K | $361K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 282 | 232 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +6.4% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +3.8% | +5.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,244 | $3,849 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $54,104 | $75,081 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 56 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 5 → 6
- Employees, 2023
- 22
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $317K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 6Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 206 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 15The 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 Dewey 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 Dewey County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 5,419+3.8% since 2020
- Households
- 1,692
- Median age
- 27.8
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 61%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 2,302 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 2
- Median household income
- $54,104
- Average household income
- $68,205
- Median home value
- $69,600
- Jobs located here
- 2,367
- Daytime population
- 6,023Residents 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 |
| Dewey County, SD | Not scored | 20 | 118.2 | $274K | +3.8% |
Other business types in Dewey 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 Dewey County, SD?
There are 20 restaurants and cafes on map listings in Dewey County as of September 2026. 6 of them (30%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 6 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023. Official counts also show 6 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Dewey County, SD spend on food away from home?
About $5.5M a year, or $3,244 per household. That is 20% below the U.S. average (an index of 80, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 20 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $274K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 1,692 households in Dewey County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Dewey County, SD compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
Dewey County has 118.2 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 8% above the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $274K, 26% below the U.S. figure of $371K. At the national ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, Dewey County would have about 15, against 20 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 282 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S.
How fast is Dewey County, SD growing?
Population estimates put Dewey County at 5,419 people in 2025, up 3.8% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 1,692 households. The median household income in Dewey County is $54,104 a year, 33% 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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