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Restaurants and cafes in Pleasants County, WV
How Pleasants County, WV compares with other counties and the U.S. for restaurants and cafes: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
- Listings
- 20
- 8 chain locations (40%)
- Official establishments
- 10
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $9.4M
- On food away from home · $3,396 a household
- Spending per listing
- $470K
- 27% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 72.2
- 34% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 7,338
- −4.1% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 20 restaurants and cafes in Pleasants County. Chain locations make up 40% of them, against 34% across the U.S. That is 72.2 per 10,000 households, 34% below the U.S. rate of 109.8.
At $3,396 per household (17% below the U.S. average), households in Pleasants County spend about $9.4M a year on food away from home. That works out to $470K per restaurant, 27% above the U.S. figure of $371K.
In 2023, official counts showed 10 businesses with payroll in Pleasants County classed as restaurants and other eating places. That is one for every 277 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S.
Population estimates show Pleasants County declined 4.1% from 2020 to 2025, 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 Pleasants County compares
The same measures for West 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 | Pleasants County | West Virginia | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 72.2 | 87.0 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $470K | $384K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 277 | 259 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +3.3% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −4.1% | −1.4% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,396 | $3,343 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $60,932 | $59,608 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 46 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 8 → 10
- Employees, 2023
- 165
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $2.9M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 208 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 25The 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 Pleasants 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 Pleasants County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 7,338−4.1% since 2020
- Households
- 2,769
- Median age
- 43.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 81%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 130 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 58
- Median household income
- $60,932
- Average household income
- $97,880
- Median home value
- $151,000
- Jobs located here
- 2,729
- Daytime population
- 7,415Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in West Virginia
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Berkeley County, WV | 83 | 365 | 71.5 | $538K | +13.7% | #94 of 2,405 |
| 2Hampshire County, WV | 78 | 43 | 49.8 | $681K | +4.4% | #167 of 2,405 |
| 3Morgan County, WV | 73 | 57 | 77.6 | $450K | +5.5% | #324 of 2,405 |
| 4Jefferson County, WV | 73 | 222 | 97.4 | $449K | +9.2% | #325 of 2,405 |
| 5Taylor County, WV | 66 | 32 | 48.5 | $689K | −2.4% | #501 of 2,405 |
| 6Putnam County, WV | 65 | 172 | 74.0 | $534K | −1.0% | #544 of 2,405 |
| 7Monroe County, WV | 64 | 21 | 45.5 | $673K | +0.8% | #584 of 2,405 |
| 8Wayne County, WV | 63 | 75 | 47.6 | $679K | −4.0% | #625 of 2,405 |
| 9Boone County, WV | 62 | 35 | 44.2 | $717K | −6.9% | #655 of 2,405 |
| 10Preston County, WV | 62 | 92 | 71.8 | $464K | −0.6% | #676 of 2,405 |
| Pleasants County, WV | Not scored | 20 | 72.2 | $470K | −4.1% |
Other business types in Pleasants County
None has a Groundwork market score here. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
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Questions
How many restaurants and cafes are in Pleasants County, WV?
There are 20 restaurants and cafes on map listings in Pleasants County as of September 2026. 8 of them (40%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 10 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023.
How much do households in Pleasants County, WV spend on food away from home?
About $9.4M a year, or $3,396 per household. That is 17% below the U.S. average (an index of 83, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 20 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $470K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 2,769 households in Pleasants County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Pleasants County, WV compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
Pleasants County has 72.2 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 34% below the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $470K, 27% above the U.S. figure of $371K. At the national ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, Pleasants County would have about 25, against 20 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 277 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S.
How fast is Pleasants County, WV growing?
Population estimates put Pleasants County at 7,338 people in 2025, down 4.1% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 2,769 households. The median household income in Pleasants County is $60,932 a year, 25% 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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