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Restaurants and cafes in Grimes County, TX
How Grimes County, TX 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 47 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #1,334 of 2,405 scored counties
#75 of 162 scored counties in Texas
- Listings
- 125
- 25 chain locations (20%)
- Official establishments
- 41
- +36.7% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $36.7M
- On food away from home · $3,579 a household
- Spending per listing
- $294K
- 21% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 121.9
- 11% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 34,252
- +16.3% since 2020
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What this means
Households in Grimes County spend about $36.7M a year on food away from home, or $3,579 per household, 12% below the U.S. average. Spread across 125 restaurants and cafes, that is $294K per restaurant, 21% below the U.S. figure of $371K.
Grimes County has 125 restaurants and cafes on map listings as of September 2026. 25 of them (20%) are chain locations, against 34% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 121.9, 11% above the U.S. rate of 109.8.
In 2023, official counts showed 41 businesses with payroll in Grimes County classed as restaurants and other eating places, up 36.7% from 2019. That is one for every 250 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Another 19 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts. Since fiscal 2022, 2 SBA-backed loans worth $3.2M have gone to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in Grimes County.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Grimes County grew 16.3%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). The Groundwork market score for restaurants and cafes in Grimes County is 47 (lower middle), #1,334 of 2,405 scored counties and #75 of 162 scored counties in Texas.
How Grimes County 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 | Grimes County | Texas | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 121.9 | 120.5 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $294K | $329K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 250 | 207 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +36.7% | +12.4% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +16.3% | +8.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,579 | $3,970 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $69,803 | $78,476 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 47 | 45 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 30 → 41+36.7% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 495
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $10.2M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 19Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 12525 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 99The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 2
- Amount
- $3.2M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in Grimes 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 Grimes County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 34,252+16.3% since 2020
- Households
- 10,255
- Median age
- 40.2
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 80%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 788 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 40
- Median household income
- $69,803+31.9% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $96,294
- Median home value
- $237,400
- Jobs located here
- 6,288
- Daytime population
- 21,753Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Texas
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Guadalupe County, TX | 86 | 533 | 81.5 | $516K | +15.8% | #54 of 2,405 |
| 2Clay County, TX | 84 | 31 | 72.3 | $534K | +5.0% | #78 of 2,405 |
| 3San Jacinto County, TX | 83 | 56 | 51.5 | $666K | +7.1% | #85 of 2,405 |
| 4Wilson County, TX | 79 | 155 | 85.2 | $497K | +12.2% | #158 of 2,405 |
| 5Waller County, TX | 79 | 183 | 99.8 | $412K | +21.9% | #162 of 2,405 |
| 6Parker County, TX | 78 | 510 | 90.4 | $504K | +23.5% | #179 of 2,405 |
| 7Wise County, TX | 75 | 251 | 99.9 | $422K | +21.5% | #251 of 2,405 |
| 8Williamson County, TX | 74 | 2,516 | 99.7 | $478K | +22.3% | #273 of 2,405 |
| 9Fannin County, TX | 74 | 117 | 91.6 | $404K | +9.2% | #282 of 2,405 |
| 10Randall County, TX | 73 | 473 | 83.3 | $477K | +7.9% | #319 of 2,405 |
| 75Grimes County, TX | 47 | 125 | 121.9 | $294K | +16.3% | #1,334 of 2,405 |
Other business types in Grimes County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes47
- Sit-down restaurants43
- Fast food and sandwich shops65
- Pizza
- Coffee shops and cafes60
- Bakeries and dessert shops56
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Questions
How many restaurants and cafes are in Grimes County, TX?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 125 restaurants and cafes in Grimes County. 25 of them (20%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 41 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023, up 36.7% from 2019. Official counts list 19 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Grimes County, TX spend on food away from home?
About $36.7M a year, or $3,579 per household. That is 12% below the U.S. average (an index of 88, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 125 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $294K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 10,255 households in Grimes County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Grimes County, TX compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
Grimes County has 121.9 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 11% above the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $294K, 21% below the U.S. figure of $371K. At the U.S. ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, Grimes County would have about 99, against 125 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 250 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. The official count rose 36.7% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.0% for the U.S.
How fast is Grimes County, TX growing?
Population estimates put Grimes County at 34,252 people in 2025, up 16.3% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 10,255 households. Median household income in Grimes County is $69,803, 14% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 31.9%, 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. Grimes County scores 47 for restaurants and cafes (lower middle), #1,334 of 2,405 scored counties.
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