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Restaurants and cafes in Sumner County, TN
How Sumner County, TN compares with other counties and the U.S. for restaurants and cafes: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 76 out of 100: High
Ranked #226 of 2,405 scored counties
#14 of 87 scored counties in Tennessee
- Listings
- 698
- 328 chain locations (47%)
- Official establishments
- 295
- +20.9% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $325.2M
- On food away from home · $4,138 a household
- Spending per listing
- $466K
- 26% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 88.8
- 19% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 215,538
- +9.2% since 2020
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What this means
For restaurants and cafes, Sumner County has a Groundwork market score of 76 (high): #226 of 2,405 scored counties and #14 of 87 scored counties in Tennessee. That puts it in the top 10% of counties for restaurants and cafes.
Map listings as of September 2026 show 698 restaurants and cafes in Sumner County. Of those, 328 are chain locations, or 47%, against 34% across the U.S. That is 88.8 per 10,000 households, 19% below the U.S. rate of 109.8.
Household spending on food away from home in Sumner County comes to about $325.2M a year: $4,138 per household, 2% above the U.S. average. That is about $466K of household spending for each restaurant on map listings, 26% above the U.S. figure of $371K.
In 2023, official counts showed 295 businesses with payroll in Sumner County classed as restaurants and other eating places, up 20.9% from 2019. That is one for every 266 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 9 SBA-backed loans worth $6.2M have gone to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in Sumner County. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Sumner County grew 9.2%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How Sumner County compares
The same measures for Tennessee 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 | Sumner County | Tennessee | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 88.8 | 102.9 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $466K | $357K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 266 | 229 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +20.9% | +9.9% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +9.2% | +5.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $4,138 | $3,670 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $90,301 | $69,595 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 76 | 49 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 244 → 295+20.9% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 6,296
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $143.4M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 94Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 698328 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 877The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 9
- Amount
- $6.2M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in Sumner 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 Sumner County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 215,538+9.2% since 2020
- Households
- 78,582
- Median age
- 40.5
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 72%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 530 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 386
- Median household income
- $90,301+34.4% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $113,861
- Median home value
- $393,100
- Jobs located here
- 61,310
- Daytime population
- 168,009Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Tennessee
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Fayette County, TN | 91 | 96 | 55.8 | $719K | +7.7% | #19 of 2,405 |
| 2Roane County, TN | 84 | 133 | 58.4 | $623K | +7.0% | #69 of 2,405 |
| 3Loudon County, TN | 84 | 177 | 73.6 | $540K | +15.6% | #77 of 2,405 |
| 4Meigs County, TN | 81 | 25 | 47.8 | $694K | +10.8% | #115 of 2,405 |
| 5Hickman County, TN | 81 | 47 | 49.8 | $687K | +5.0% | #116 of 2,405 |
| 6Union County, TN | 80 | 38 | 47.9 | $689K | +8.1% | #130 of 2,405 |
| 7Cheatham County, TN | 80 | 114 | 70.0 | $567K | +4.1% | #138 of 2,405 |
| 8Grainger County, TN | 77 | 46 | 47.6 | $645K | +9.2% | #187 of 2,405 |
| 9Macon County, TN | 77 | 48 | 51.0 | $635K | +9.5% | #188 of 2,405 |
| 10Smith County, TN | 77 | 52 | 65.6 | $539K | +5.1% | #201 of 2,405 |
| 14Sumner County, TN | 76 | 698 | 88.8 | $466K | +9.2% | #226 of 2,405 |
Other business types in Sumner County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes76
- Sit-down restaurants71
- Fast food and sandwich shops74
- Pizza81
- Coffee shops and cafes70
- Bakeries and dessert shops78
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Questions
How many restaurants and cafes are in Sumner County, TN?
There are 698 restaurants and cafes on map listings in Sumner County as of September 2026. 328 of them (47%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 295 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023, up 20.9% from 2019. Official counts list 94 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Sumner County, TN spend on food away from home?
About $325.2M a year, or $4,138 per household. That is 2% above the U.S. average (an index of 102, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 698 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $466K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 78,582 households in Sumner County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Sumner County, TN compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
Sumner County has 88.8 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 19% below the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $466K, 26% above the U.S. figure of $371K. At the national ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, Sumner County would have about 877, against 698 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 266 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. The official count rose 20.9% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.0% for the U.S.
How fast is Sumner County, TN growing?
Population estimates put Sumner County at 215,538 people in 2025, up 9.2% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 78,582 households. The median household income in Sumner County is $90,301 a year, 12% above the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 34.4% 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. 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. Sumner County scores 76 for restaurants and cafes (high), #226 of 2,405 scored counties.
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