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Sit-down restaurants in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK
How Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK compares with other counties and the U.S. for sit-down restaurants: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 84 out of 100: High
Ranked #75 of 2,405 scored counties
#1 of 9 scored counties in Alaska
- Listings
- 156
- 35 chain locations (22%)
- Official establishments
- 60
- +5.3% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $170.8M
- On food away from home · $4,283 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.1M
- 65% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 39.1
- 36% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 118,666
- +10.4% since 2020
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What this means
For sit-down restaurants, Matanuska-Susitna Borough has a Groundwork market score of 84 (high): #75 of 2,405 scored counties and #1 of 9 scored counties in Alaska. That puts it in the top 10% of counties for sit-down restaurants.
Household spending on food away from home in Matanuska-Susitna Borough comes to about $170.8M a year: $4,283 per household, 5% above the U.S. average. That works out to $1.1M per restaurant, 65% above the U.S. figure of $664K. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only sit-down restaurants.
There are 156 sit-down restaurants on map listings in Matanuska-Susitna Borough as of September 2026. 35 of them (22%) are chain locations, against 29% across the U.S. That comes to 39.1 for every 10,000 households, 36% below the U.S. rate of 61.3.
Official counts show 60 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in Matanuska-Susitna Borough in 2023, up 5.3% from 2019. That is one for every 664 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Matanuska-Susitna Borough grew 10.4%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How Matanuska-Susitna Borough compares
The same measures for Alaska and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all food away from home by the sit-down restaurants 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 | Matanuska-Susitna Borough | Alaska | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 39.1 | 57.4 | 61.3 |
| Spending per listing | $1.1M | $752K | $664K |
| Households per official establishment | 664 | 508 | 500 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +5.3% | −7.9% | +1.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +10.4% | +0.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $4,283 | $4,320 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $94,031 | $92,788 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 84 | 57 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 57 → 60+5.3% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 1,096
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $33.3M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 13Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 15635 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 257The 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 full-service restaurants in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, 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 Matanuska-Susitna Borough
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 118,666+10.4% since 2020
- Households
- 39,869
- Median age
- 37.2
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 77%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.2
- Land area
- 24,703 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 5
- Median household income
- $94,031+24.6% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $115,954
- Median home value
- $346,600
- Jobs located here
- n/a
- Daytime population
- n/aResidents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Alaska market ranked →The highest-scoring counties in Alaska for sit-down restaurants, numbered among those based in Alaska, with Matanuska-Susitna Borough marked.
Top counties in Alaska
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK | 84 | 156 | 39.1 | $1.1M | +10.4% | #75 of 2,405 |
| 2Bethel Census Area, AK | 73 | 9 | 18.6 | $2.1M | −1.5% | #288 of 2,405 |
| 3North Slope Borough, AK | 62 | 10 | 43.8 | $1M | −3.8% | #646 of 2,405 |
| 4Kodiak Island Borough, AK | 53 | 20 | 43.1 | $939K | −5.0% | #1,019 of 2,405 |
| 5Anchorage Municipality, AK | 50 | 657 | 60.5 | $759K | −1.3% | #1,163 of 2,405 |
| 6Juneau City and Borough, AK | 47 | 85 | 64.6 | $698K | −1.8% | #1,316 of 2,405 |
| 7Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK | 45 | 219 | 60.2 | $701K | −1.4% | #1,417 of 2,405 |
| 8Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK | 42 | 165 | 67.7 | $591K | +5.1% | #1,561 of 2,405 |
| 9Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK | 27 | 52 | 90.7 | $464K | −2.6% | #2,159 of 2,405 |
Other business types in Matanuska-Susitna Borough
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes72
- Sit-down restaurants84
- Fast food and sandwich shops88
- Pizza88
- Coffee shops and cafes38
- Bakeries and dessert shops69
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Questions
How many sit-down restaurants are in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK?
As of September 2026, map listings count 156 sit-down restaurants in Matanuska-Susitna Borough. 35 of them (22%) are chain locations. The listings count restaurants of every cuisine, pizza included. Official counts show 60 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in 2023, up 5.3% from 2019. Official counts also show 13 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK spend on food away from home?
About $170.8M a year, or $4,283 per household. That is 5% above the U.S. average (an index of 105, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 156 sit-down restaurants on map listings, it comes to $1.1M per restaurant. That spending covers all food away from home, which sit-down restaurants share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 39,869 households in Matanuska-Susitna Borough and national spending patterns by income.
How does Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK compare with the U.S. for sit-down restaurants?
Matanuska-Susitna Borough has 39.1 sit-down restaurants per 10,000 households, 36% below the U.S. rate of 61.3. Spending per restaurant is $1.1M, 65% above the U.S. figure of $664K. At the U.S. ratio of sit-down restaurants to household spending, Matanuska-Susitna Borough would have about 257, against 156 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 664 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. The official count rose 5.3% from 2019 to 2023, against +1.5% for the U.S.
How fast is Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK growing?
Population estimates put Matanuska-Susitna Borough at 118,666 people in 2025, up 10.4% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 39,869 households. Median household income in Matanuska-Susitna Borough is $94,031, 16% above the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 24.6%, 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. Matanuska-Susitna Borough scores 84 for sit-down restaurants (high), #75 of 2,405 scored counties.
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