Food and drink · Small-town market · Georgia
Sit-down restaurants in the Jesup, GA area
How the Jesup, GA area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for sit-down restaurants: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 38 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #402 of 538 scored small-town markets
#17 of 23 scored small-town markets based in Georgia
- Listings
- 72
- 28 chain locations (39%)
- Official establishments
- 19
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $34.3M
- On food away from home · $3,102 a household
- Spending per listing
- $477K
- 28% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 65.1
- 6% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 32,481
- +7.8% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 72 sit-down restaurants in the Jesup area. Chain locations make up 39% of them, against 29% across the U.S. That is 65.1 per 10,000 households, 6% above the U.S. rate of 61.3.
Household spending on food away from home in the Jesup area comes to about $34.3M a year: $3,102 per household, 24% below the U.S. average. That is about $477K of household spending for each restaurant on map listings, 28% below the U.S. figure of $664K. That spending covers all food away from home, which sit-down restaurants share with other businesses in the trade.
Official counts show 19 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in the Jesup area in 2023. That is one for every 582 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. Another 12 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $909K has gone to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in the Jesup area.
Population estimates show the Jesup area grew 7.8% from 2020 to 2025, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). The Groundwork market score for sit-down restaurants in the Jesup area is 38 (lower middle), #402 of 538 scored small-town markets and #17 of 23 scored small-town markets based in Georgia.
How the Jesup area compares
The same measures for Georgia 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 | Jesup area | Georgia | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 65.1 | 66.0 | 61.3 |
| Spending per listing | $477K | $593K | $664K |
| Households per official establishment | 582 | 514 | 500 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +5.5% | +1.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +7.8% | +5.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,102 | $3,917 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $53,427 | $77,353 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 38 | 42 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 19
- Employees, 2023
- 243
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $3.9M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 12Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 7228 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 52The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $909K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in the Jesup 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 Jesup area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 32,481+7.8% since 2020
- Households
- 11,061
- Median age
- 38.8
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 67%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 642 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 48
- Median household income
- $53,427+17.5% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $67,341
- Median home value
- $162,800
- Jobs located here
- 9,027
- Daytime population
- 28,247Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Georgia market ranked →The highest-scoring small-town markets in Georgia for sit-down restaurants, numbered among those based in Georgia, with the Jesup area marked.
Top small-town markets in Georgia
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jefferson, GA | 80 | 163 | 57.4 | $723K | +29.3% | #20 of 538 |
| 2Calhoun, GA | 71 | 107 | 50.1 | $702K | +6.9% | #71 of 538 |
| 3Toccoa, GA | 66 | 42 | 39.9 | $767K | +3.8% | #104 of 538 |
| 4Kingsland, GA | 66 | 129 | 59.5 | $615K | +9.5% | #108 of 538 |
| 5Cornelia, GA | 62 | 101 | 60.3 | $588K | +9.3% | #145 of 538 |
| 6Summerville, GA | 58 | 37 | 40.4 | $726K | +1.5% | #186 of 538 |
| 7Thomaston, GA | 54 | 52 | 49.1 | $658K | +2.7% | #226 of 538 |
| 8Thomasville, GA | 54 | 154 | 53.5 | $623K | +1.3% | #227 of 538 |
| 9Waycross, GA | 49 | 102 | 49.6 | $616K | +3.0% | #277 of 538 |
| 10Statesboro, GA | 49 | 202 | 57.8 | $568K | +8.0% | #279 of 538 |
| 17Jesup, GA | 38 | 72 | 65.1 | $477K | +7.8% | #402 of 538 |
Other business types in the Jesup area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes36
- Sit-down restaurants38
- Fast food and sandwich shops33
- Pizza31
- Coffee shops and cafes61
- Bakeries and dessert shops38
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Questions
How many sit-down restaurants are in the Jesup, GA area?
There are 72 sit-down restaurants on map listings in the Jesup area as of September 2026. 28 of them (39%) are chain locations. The listings count restaurants of every cuisine, pizza included. Official counts show 19 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in 2023. Official counts list 12 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in the Jesup, GA area spend on food away from home?
About $34.3M a year, or $3,102 per household. That is 24% below the U.S. average (an index of 76, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 72 sit-down restaurants on map listings, it comes to $477K per restaurant. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only sit-down restaurants. It is estimated from the incomes of the 11,061 households in the Jesup area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Jesup, GA area compare with the U.S. for sit-down restaurants?
The Jesup area has 65.1 sit-down restaurants per 10,000 households, 6% above the U.S. rate of 61.3. Spending per restaurant is $477K, 28% below the U.S. figure of $664K. At the national ratio of sit-down restaurants to household spending, the Jesup area would have about 52, against 72 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 582 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S.
How fast is the Jesup, GA area growing?
Population estimates put the Jesup area at 32,481 people in 2025, up 7.8% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 11,061 households. The median household income in the Jesup area is $53,427 a year, 34% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 17.5% 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. A small-town market is a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people and the county or counties tied to it by commuting. 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 Jesup area scores 38 for sit-down restaurants (lower middle), #402 of 538 scored small-town markets.
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