Food and drink · Metro area · Wisconsin
Restaurants and cafes in the Janesville-Beloit, WI metro area
The restaurants and cafes in the Janesville-Beloit, WI metro area, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other metro areas.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 63 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #108 of 387 scored metro areas
#9 of 13 scored metro areas based in Wisconsin
- Listings
- 644
- 225 chain locations (35%)
- Official establishments
- 249
- −2.7% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $254.8M
- On food away from home · $3,791 a household
- Spending per listing
- $396K
- 7% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 95.8
- 13% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 166,472
- +1.7% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 644 restaurants and cafes in the Janesville-Beloit metro area. Of those, 225 are chain locations, or 35%, against 34% across the U.S. That comes to 95.8 for every 10,000 households, 13% below the U.S. rate of 109.8.
Household spending on food away from home in the Janesville-Beloit metro area comes to about $254.8M a year: $3,791 per household, 7% below the U.S. average. That is about $396K of household spending for each restaurant on map listings, 7% above the U.S. figure of $371K.
In 2023, official counts showed 249 businesses with payroll in the Janesville-Beloit metro area classed as restaurants and other eating places, down 2.7% from 2019. That is one for every 270 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Official counts list 45 one-person businesses without payroll. Since fiscal 2022, 4 SBA-backed loans worth $3.1M have gone to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in the Janesville-Beloit metro area.
Population estimates put the population change in the Janesville-Beloit metro area from 2020 to 2025 at +1.7%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). The Groundwork market score for restaurants and cafes in the Janesville-Beloit metro area is 63 (upper middle), #108 of 387 scored metro areas and #9 of 13 scored metro areas based in Wisconsin.
How the Janesville-Beloit metro area compares
The same measures for Wisconsin 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 | Janesville-Beloit metro area | Wisconsin | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 95.8 | 106.3 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $396K | $373K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 270 | 242 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | −2.7% | +4.2% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +1.7% | +1.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,791 | $3,959 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $75,673 | $77,485 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 63 | 55 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 249−2.7% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 4,879
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $94.2M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 45Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 644225 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 687The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 4
- Amount
- $3.1M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in the Janesville-Beloit metro 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 Janesville-Beloit metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 166,472+1.7% since 2020
- Households
- 67,201
- Median age
- 40.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 71%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 718 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 229
- Median household income
- $75,673+30.8% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $91,984
- Median home value
- $231,600
- Jobs located here
- 69,632
- Daytime population
- 154,793Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Wisconsin market ranked →The highest-scoring metro areas in Wisconsin for restaurants and cafes, numbered among those based in Wisconsin (a market based in another state is listed without a number), with the Janesville-Beloit metro area marked.
Top metro areas in Wisconsin
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI | 85 | 12,367 | 83.7 | $552K | +2.6% | #3 of 387 |
| 1Madison, WI | 74 | 3,057 | 101.4 | $426K | +4.1% | #39 of 387 |
| 2Racine-Mount Pleasant, WI | 73 | 722 | 89.8 | $441K | +0.4% | #45 of 387 |
| 3Fond du Lac, WI | 70 | 379 | 87.6 | $436K | +0.5% | #60 of 387 |
| 4Wausau, WI | 68 | 529 | 91.4 | $427K | +1.0% | #72 of 387 |
| 5Oshkosh-Neenah, WI | 68 | 674 | 92.8 | $413K | +1.4% | #74 of 387 |
| 6Kenosha, WI | 67 | 668 | 96.9 | $420K | −0.4% | #80 of 387 |
| Duluth, MN-WI | 65 | 1,086 | 90.2 | $418K | +0.2% | #95 of 387 |
| 7Appleton, WI | 65 | 1,038 | 104.1 | $400K | +2.7% | #97 of 387 |
| 8Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI | 63 | 6,604 | 100.6 | $402K | 0.0% | #107 of 387 |
| 9Janesville-Beloit, WI | 63 | 644 | 95.8 | $396K | +1.7% | #108 of 387 |
Other business types in the Janesville-Beloit metro area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes63
- Sit-down restaurants54
- Fast food and sandwich shops59
- Pizza57
- Coffee shops and cafes69
- Bakeries and dessert shops71
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Questions
How many restaurants and cafes are in the Janesville-Beloit, WI metro area?
There are 644 restaurants and cafes on map listings in the Janesville-Beloit metro area as of September 2026. 225 of them (35%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 249 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023, down 2.7% from 2019. Official counts also show 45 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in the Janesville-Beloit, WI metro area spend on food away from home?
About $254.8M a year, or $3,791 per household. That is 7% below the U.S. average (an index of 93, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 644 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $396K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 67,201 households in the Janesville-Beloit metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Janesville-Beloit, WI metro area compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
The Janesville-Beloit metro area has 95.8 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 13% below the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $396K, 7% above the U.S. figure of $371K. At the national ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, the Janesville-Beloit metro area would have about 687, against 644 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 270 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. The official count fell 2.7% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.0% for the U.S.
How fast is the Janesville-Beloit, WI metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Janesville-Beloit metro area at 166,472 people in 2025, up 1.7% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 67,201 households. The median household income in the Janesville-Beloit metro area is $75,673 a year, 6% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 30.8% from the 2015–2019 survey, 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. The Janesville-Beloit metro area scores 63 for restaurants and cafes (upper middle), #108 of 387 scored metro areas.
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