Food and drink · Small-town market · Texas
Restaurants and cafes in the Alice, TX area
How the Alice, TX 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 21 out of 100: Low
Ranked #514 of 538 scored small-town markets
#36 of 41 scored small-town markets based in Texas
- Listings
- 195
- 78 chain locations (40%)
- Official establishments
- 74
- +4.2% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $51.9M
- On food away from home · $3,193 a household
- Spending per listing
- $266K
- 28% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 120.0
- 9% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 45,383
- −1.3% since 2020
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What this means
For restaurants and cafes, the Alice area has a Groundwork market score of 21 (low): #514 of 538 scored small-town markets and #36 of 41 scored small-town markets based in Texas. That puts it in the bottom quarter of small-town markets.
Household spending on food away from home in the Alice area comes to about $51.9M a year: $3,193 per household, 22% below the U.S. average. Spread across 195 restaurants and cafes, that is $266K per restaurant, 28% below the U.S. figure of $371K.
There are 195 restaurants and cafes on map listings in the Alice area as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 40% of them, against 34% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 120.0, 9% above the U.S. rate of 109.8.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in the Alice area was 74 in 2023, up 4.2% from 2019. That is one for every 220 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $200K has gone to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in the Alice area. Population estimates show the Alice area declined 1.3% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S.
How the Alice area compares
The same measures for Texas 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 | Alice area | Texas | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 120.0 | 120.5 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $266K | $329K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 220 | 207 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +4.2% | +12.4% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −1.3% | +8.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,193 | $3,970 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $50,888 | $78,476 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 21 | 45 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 74+4.2% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 1,315
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $22.8M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 47Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 19578 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 140The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $200K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in the Alice 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 Alice area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 45,383−1.3% since 2020
- Households
- 16,256
- Median age
- 36.9
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 66%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.7
- Land area
- 1,809 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 25
- Median household income
- $50,888
- Average household income
- $71,368
- Median home value
- $113,500
- Jobs located here
- 15,922
- Daytime population
- 42,246Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Texas market ranked →The highest-scoring small-town markets in Texas for restaurants and cafes, numbered among those based in Texas, with the Alice area marked.
Top small-town markets in Texas
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Bonham, TX | 85 | 117 | 91.6 | $404K | +9.2% | #14 of 538 |
| 2Granbury, TX | 72 | 255 | 99.9 | $408K | +13.6% | #70 of 538 |
| 3Andrews, TX | 68 | 65 | 95.0 | $403K | +1.6% | #95 of 538 |
| 4Jacksonville, TX | 66 | 172 | 94.6 | $359K | +5.4% | #115 of 538 |
| 5Corsicana, TX | 64 | 191 | 100.3 | $343K | +8.2% | #136 of 538 |
| 6Huntsville, TX | 54 | 250 | 96.1 | $321K | +9.5% | #230 of 538 |
| 7Gainesville, TX | 51 | 199 | 120.4 | $319K | +6.5% | #257 of 538 |
| 8Paris, TX | 49 | 254 | 101.6 | $329K | +2.6% | #271 of 538 |
| 9Sulphur Springs, TX | 49 | 158 | 112.8 | $317K | +6.1% | #272 of 538 |
| 10Athens, TX | 48 | 365 | 108.7 | $320K | +7.5% | #282 of 538 |
| 36Alice, TX | 21 | 195 | 120.0 | $266K | −1.3% | #514 of 538 |
Other business types in the Alice area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes21
- Sit-down restaurants23
- Fast food and sandwich shops13
- Pizza39
- Coffee shops and cafes52
- Bakeries and dessert shops33
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Questions
How many restaurants and cafes are in the Alice, TX area?
As of September 2026, map listings count 195 restaurants and cafes in the Alice area. 78 of them (40%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 74 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023, up 4.2% from 2019. Another 47 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.
How much do households in the Alice, TX area spend on food away from home?
About $51.9M a year, or $3,193 per household. That is 22% below the U.S. average (an index of 78, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 195 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $266K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 16,256 households in the Alice area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Alice, TX area compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
The Alice area has 120.0 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 9% above the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $266K, 28% below the U.S. figure of $371K. At the U.S. ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, the Alice area would have about 140, against 195 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 220 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. The official count rose 4.2% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.0% for the U.S.
How fast is the Alice, TX area growing?
Population estimates put the Alice area at 45,383 people in 2025, down 1.3% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 16,256 households. Median household income in the Alice area is $50,888, 37% 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. 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 Alice area scores 21 for restaurants and cafes (low), #514 of 538 scored small-town markets.
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