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Sit-down restaurants in Caribou County, ID
How Caribou County, ID compares with other counties and the U.S. for sit-down restaurants: 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
- 12
- 4 chain locations (33%)
- Official establishments
- 3
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $8.5M
- On food away from home · $3,451 a household
- Spending per listing
- $712K
- 7% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 48.5
- 21% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 7,252
- +3.4% since 2020
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What this means
At $3,451 per household (15% below the U.S. average), households in Caribou County spend about $8.5M a year on food away from home. That is about $712K of household spending for each restaurant on map listings, 7% above the U.S. figure of $664K. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only sit-down restaurants.
Caribou County has 12 sit-down restaurants on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 33% of them, against 29% across the U.S. That comes to 48.5 for every 10,000 households, 21% below the U.S. rate of 61.3.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in Caribou County was 3 in 2023. That is one for every 825 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 2 SBA-backed loans worth $212K have gone to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in Caribou County.
Population estimates show Caribou County grew 3.4% from 2020 to 2025, in step with the U.S. (+3.1%). Counties under 10,000 people aren’t given a market score, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
How Caribou County compares
The same measures for Idaho 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 | Caribou County | Idaho | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 48.5 | 51.6 | 61.3 |
| Spending per listing | $712K | $748K | $664K |
| Households per official establishment | 825 | 550 | 500 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | −2.7% | +1.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +3.4% | +9.8% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,451 | $3,857 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $68,782 | $77,800 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 69 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 4 → 3
- Employees, 2023
- 38
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $610K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 124 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 13The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 2
- Amount
- $212K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in Caribou 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 Caribou County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 7,252+3.4% since 2020
- Households
- 2,474
- Median age
- 38.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 82%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.4
- Land area
- 1,764 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 4
- Median household income
- $68,782
- Average household income
- $83,716
- Median home value
- $241,500
- Jobs located here
- 3,343
- Daytime population
- 7,266Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Idaho
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jefferson County, ID | 94 | 28 | 27.5 | $1.4M | +13.6% | #8 of 2,405 |
| 2Franklin County, ID | 90 | 13 | 26.4 | $1.4M | +11.2% | #21 of 2,405 |
| 3Canyon County, ID | 85 | 321 | 37.3 | $1M | +18.1% | #66 of 2,405 |
| 4Bingham County, ID | 82 | 63 | 39.1 | $967K | +6.4% | #97 of 2,405 |
| 5Payette County, ID | 81 | 27 | 27.9 | $1.3M | +8.8% | #106 of 2,405 |
| 6Gem County, ID | 75 | 30 | 39.3 | $909K | +13.0% | #250 of 2,405 |
| 7Ada County, ID | 70 | 1,072 | 52.9 | $813K | +9.6% | #387 of 2,405 |
| 8Boundary County, ID | 66 | 19 | 37.7 | $926K | +15.3% | #490 of 2,405 |
| 9Jerome County, ID | 64 | 42 | 50.7 | $719K | +8.6% | #588 of 2,405 |
| 10Nez Perce County, ID | 62 | 71 | 41.1 | $886K | +1.8% | #657 of 2,405 |
| Caribou County, ID | Not scored | 12 | 48.5 | $712K | +3.4% |
Other business types in Caribou 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 sit-down restaurants are in Caribou County, ID?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 12 sit-down restaurants in Caribou County. 4 of them (33%) are chain locations. The listings count restaurants of every cuisine, pizza included. Official counts show 3 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in 2023.
How much do households in Caribou County, ID spend on food away from home?
About $8.5M a year, or $3,451 per household. That is 15% below the U.S. average (an index of 85, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 12 sit-down restaurants on map listings, it comes to $712K 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 2,474 households in Caribou County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Caribou County, ID compare with the U.S. for sit-down restaurants?
Caribou County has 48.5 sit-down restaurants per 10,000 households, 21% below the U.S. rate of 61.3. Spending per restaurant is $712K, 7% above the U.S. figure of $664K. At the U.S. ratio of sit-down restaurants to household spending, Caribou County would have about 13, against 12 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 825 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S.
How fast is Caribou County, ID growing?
Population estimates put Caribou County at 7,252 people in 2025, up 3.4% since 2020, in step with the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 2,474 households. Median household income in Caribou County is $68,782, 15% 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.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
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