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Restaurants and cafes in Galax city, VA
Competitor counts, household spending and official business counts for restaurants and cafes in Galax city, VA, set against other counties and the U.S.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
- Listings
- 46
- 22 chain locations (48%)
- Official establishments
- 31
- 0.0% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $8.5M
- On food away from home · $3,084 a household
- Spending per listing
- $185K
- 50% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 166.5
- 52% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 6,670
- −0.7% since 2020
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What this means
Household spending on food away from home in Galax city comes to about $8.5M a year: $3,084 per household, 24% below the U.S. average. That is about $185K of household spending for each restaurant on map listings, 50% below the U.S. figure of $371K.
Galax city has 46 restaurants and cafes on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 48% of them, against 34% across the U.S. That is 166.5 per 10,000 households, 52% above the U.S. rate of 109.8.
In 2023, official counts showed 31 businesses with payroll in Galax city classed as restaurants and other eating places, unchanged from 2019. That is one for every 89 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Official counts list 3 one-person businesses without payroll.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Galax city declined 0.7%, against +3.1% for the U.S. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t given a market score, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
How Galax city 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 | Galax city | Virginia | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 166.5 | 97.9 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $185K | $447K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 89 | 211 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | 0.0% | +4.2% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −0.7% | +2.8% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,084 | $4,372 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $38,675 | $93,170 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 71 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 31 → 310.0% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 526
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $10.3M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 3Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 4622 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 23The 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 Galax city, 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 Galax city
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 6,670−0.7% since 2020
- Households
- 2,763
- Median age
- 42.9
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 56%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.6
- Land area
- 8 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 817
- Median household income
- $38,675
- Average household income
- $71,061
- Median home value
- $141,300
- Jobs located here
- 5,712
- Daytime population
- 9,892Residents 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 |
| Galax city, VA | Not scored | 46 | 166.5 | $185K | −0.7% |
Other business types in Galax city
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Questions
How many restaurants and cafes are in Galax city, VA?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 46 restaurants and cafes in Galax city. 22 of them (48%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 31 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023, unchanged from 2019. Official counts also show 3 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Galax city, VA spend on food away from home?
About $8.5M a year, or $3,084 per household. That is 24% below the U.S. average (an index of 76, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 46 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $185K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 2,763 households in Galax city and national spending patterns by income.
How does Galax city, VA compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
Galax city has 166.5 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 52% above the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $185K, 50% below the U.S. figure of $371K. At the U.S. ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, Galax city would have about 23, against 46 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 89 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. The official count held level from 2019 to 2023, against +6.0% for the U.S.
How fast is Galax city, VA growing?
Population estimates put Galax city at 6,670 people in 2025, down 0.7% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 2,763 households. Median household income in Galax city is $38,675, 52% 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.
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