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Sit-down restaurants in Navajo County, AZ
How Navajo County, AZ 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 33 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #1,917 of 2,405 scored counties
#10 of 14 scored counties in Arizona
- Listings
- 196
- 66 chain locations (34%)
- Official establishments
- 82
- +9.3% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $125.1M
- On food away from home · $3,123 a household
- Spending per listing
- $638K
- 4% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 48.9
- 20% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 109,946
- +3.0% since 2020
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What this means
The Groundwork market score for sit-down restaurants in Navajo County is 33 (lower middle), #1,917 of 2,405 scored counties and #10 of 14 scored counties in Arizona. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Households in Navajo County spend about $125.1M a year on food away from home, or $3,123 per household, 23% below the U.S. average. That is about $638K of household spending for each restaurant on map listings, 4% below the U.S. figure of $664K. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only sit-down restaurants.
Navajo County has 196 sit-down restaurants on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 34% of them, against 29% across the U.S. That comes to 48.9 for every 10,000 households, 20% below the U.S. rate of 61.3.
In 2023, official counts showed 82 businesses with payroll in Navajo County classed as full-service restaurants, up 9.3% from 2019. That is one for every 489 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 4 SBA-backed loans worth $2.1M have gone to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in Navajo County. Population estimates put the population change in Navajo County from 2020 to 2025 at +3.0%, in step with the U.S. (+3.1%).
How Navajo County compares
The same measures for Arizona 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 | Navajo County | Arizona | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 48.9 | 53.3 | 61.3 |
| Spending per listing | $638K | $747K | $664K |
| Households per official establishment | 489 | 640 | 500 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +9.3% | +3.3% | +1.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +3.0% | +6.1% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,123 | $3,982 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $54,606 | $79,964 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 33 | 77 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 75 → 82+9.3% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 1,226
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $31.1M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 29Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 19666 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 189The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 4
- Amount
- $2.1M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in Navajo 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 Navajo County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 109,946+3.0% since 2020
- Households
- 40,063
- Median age
- 40.5
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 73%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 9,950 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 11
- Median household income
- $54,606+36.3% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $68,874
- Median home value
- $201,500
- Jobs located here
- 26,234
- Daytime population
- 104,760Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Arizona market ranked →The highest-scoring counties in Arizona for sit-down restaurants, numbered among those based in Arizona, with Navajo County marked.
Top counties in Arizona
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Pinal County, AZ | 93 | 429 | 26.5 | $1.5M | +25.4% | #9 of 2,405 |
| 2Graham County, AZ | 68 | 43 | 33.7 | $1M | +4.0% | #422 of 2,405 |
| 3Pima County, AZ | 65 | 2,035 | 46.5 | $801K | +2.8% | #538 of 2,405 |
| 4Maricopa County, AZ | 65 | 10,093 | 58.3 | $726K | +5.5% | #544 of 2,405 |
| 5Apache County, AZ | 61 | 50 | 23.7 | $1.2M | −2.2% | #692 of 2,405 |
| 6Mohave County, AZ | 59 | 423 | 41.5 | $793K | +6.5% | #780 of 2,405 |
| 7Yuma County, AZ | 59 | 395 | 49.8 | $673K | +9.2% | #792 of 2,405 |
| 8Yavapai County, AZ | 54 | 549 | 49.4 | $739K | +6.5% | #997 of 2,405 |
| 9Cochise County, AZ | 42 | 258 | 50.6 | $660K | +0.6% | #1,542 of 2,405 |
| 10Navajo County, AZ | 33 | 196 | 48.9 | $638K | +3.0% | #1,917 of 2,405 |
Other business types in Navajo County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes38
- Sit-down restaurants33
- Fast food and sandwich shops36
- Pizza45
- Coffee shops and cafes41
- Bakeries and dessert shops63
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Questions
How many sit-down restaurants are in Navajo County, AZ?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 196 sit-down restaurants in Navajo County. 66 of them (34%) are chain locations. The listings count restaurants of every cuisine, pizza included. Official counts show 82 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in 2023, up 9.3% from 2019. Official counts list 29 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Navajo County, AZ spend on food away from home?
About $125.1M a year, or $3,123 per household. That is 23% below the U.S. average (an index of 77, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 196 sit-down restaurants on map listings, it comes to $638K 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 40,063 households in Navajo County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Navajo County, AZ compare with the U.S. for sit-down restaurants?
Navajo County has 48.9 sit-down restaurants per 10,000 households, 20% below the U.S. rate of 61.3. Spending per restaurant is $638K, 4% below the U.S. figure of $664K. At the U.S. ratio of sit-down restaurants to household spending, Navajo County would have about 189, against 196 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 489 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. The official count rose 9.3% from 2019 to 2023, against +1.5% for the U.S.
How fast is Navajo County, AZ growing?
Population estimates put Navajo County at 109,946 people in 2025, up 3.0% since 2020, in step with the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 40,063 households. Median household income in Navajo County is $54,606, 32% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 36.3%, 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. Navajo County scores 33 for sit-down restaurants (lower middle), #1,917 of 2,405 scored counties.
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