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Restaurants and cafes in Augusta County, VA
How Augusta County, VA 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 82 out of 100: High
Ranked #100 of 2,405 scored counties
#20 of 115 scored counties in Virginia
- Listings
- 159
- 61 chain locations (38%)
- Official establishments
- 70
- −2.8% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $117.3M
- On food away from home · $3,775 a household
- Spending per listing
- $738K
- 99% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 51.2
- 53% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 78,940
- +1.8% since 2020
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What this means
For restaurants and cafes, Augusta County has a Groundwork market score of 82 (high): #100 of 2,405 scored counties and #20 of 115 scored counties in Virginia. That puts it in the top 10% of counties for restaurants and cafes.
Households in Augusta County spend about $117.3M a year on food away from home, or $3,775 per household, 7% below the U.S. average. That is about $738K of household spending for each restaurant on map listings, 99% above the U.S. figure of $371K.
Augusta County has 159 restaurants and cafes on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 38% of them, against 34% across the U.S. That comes to 51.2 for every 10,000 households, 53% below the U.S. rate of 109.8.
Official counts show 70 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in Augusta County in 2023, down 2.8% from 2019. That is one for every 444 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Augusta County grew 1.8%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How Augusta County compares
The same measures for Virginia 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 | Augusta County | Virginia | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 51.2 | 97.9 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $738K | $447K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 444 | 211 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | −2.8% | +4.2% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +1.8% | +2.8% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,775 | $4,372 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $82,049 | $93,170 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 82 | 71 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 72 → 70−2.8% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 1,123
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $22.4M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 9Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 15961 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 316The 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 Augusta 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 Augusta County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 78,940+1.8% since 2020
- Households
- 31,083
- Median age
- 44.6
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 80%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.3
- Land area
- 967 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 81
- Median household income
- $82,049+30.8% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $97,971
- Median home value
- $306,100
- Jobs located here
- 29,683
- Daytime population
- 69,743Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Virginia
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Goochland County, VA | 96 | 56 | 54.1 | $930K | +17.4% | #3 of 2,405 |
| 2Fluvanna County, VA | 94 | 36 | 34.9 | $1.2M | +6.2% | #4 of 2,405 |
| 3Caroline County, VA | 93 | 63 | 52.6 | $773K | +11.3% | #9 of 2,405 |
| 4Powhatan County, VA | 92 | 59 | 52.1 | $895K | +7.0% | #11 of 2,405 |
| 5New Kent County, VA | 92 | 57 | 61.5 | $783K | +21.2% | #12 of 2,405 |
| 6Louisa County, VA | 92 | 85 | 54.6 | $745K | +13.6% | #14 of 2,405 |
| 7King George County, VA | 91 | 66 | 65.1 | $731K | +10.5% | #18 of 2,405 |
| 8Frederick County, VA | 90 | 245 | 69.2 | $636K | +8.8% | #28 of 2,405 |
| 9Stafford County, VA | 89 | 369 | 70.5 | $758K | +8.3% | #29 of 2,405 |
| 10Dinwiddie County, VA | 87 | 39 | 36.6 | $1M | +3.6% | #38 of 2,405 |
| 20Augusta County, VA | 82 | 159 | 51.2 | $738K | +1.8% | #100 of 2,405 |
Other business types in Augusta County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes82
- Sit-down restaurants81
- Fast food and sandwich shops74
- Pizza79
- Coffee shops and cafes80
- Bakeries and dessert shops81
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Questions
How many restaurants and cafes are in Augusta County, VA?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 159 restaurants and cafes in Augusta County. 61 of them (38%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 70 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023, down 2.8% from 2019. Official counts list 9 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Augusta County, VA spend on food away from home?
About $117.3M a year, or $3,775 per household. That is 7% below the U.S. average (an index of 93, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 159 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $738K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 31,083 households in Augusta County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Augusta County, VA compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
Augusta County has 51.2 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 53% below the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $738K, 99% above the U.S. figure of $371K. At the U.S. ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, Augusta County would have about 316, against 159 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 444 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. The official count fell 2.8% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.0% for the U.S.
How fast is Augusta County, VA growing?
Population estimates put Augusta County at 78,940 people in 2025, up 1.8% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 31,083 households. Median household income in Augusta County is $82,049, 2% above the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 30.8%, 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. Augusta County scores 82 for restaurants and cafes (high), #100 of 2,405 scored counties.
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