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Sit-down restaurants in Rooks County, KS
How Rooks County, KS 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
- 10
- 2 chain locations (20%)
- Official establishments
- 10
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $7.3M
- On food away from home · $3,441 a household
- Spending per listing
- $735K
- 11% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 46.8
- 24% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 4,646
- −4.9% since 2020
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What this means
At $3,441 per household (15% below the U.S. average), households in Rooks County spend about $7.3M a year on food away from home. That is about $735K of household spending for each restaurant on map listings, 11% above the U.S. figure of $664K. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only sit-down restaurants.
There are 10 sit-down restaurants on map listings in Rooks County as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 20% of them, against 29% across the U.S. That comes to 46.8 for every 10,000 households, 24% below the U.S. rate of 61.3.
In 2023, official counts showed 10 businesses with payroll in Rooks County classed as full-service restaurants. That is one for every 214 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $100K has gone to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in Rooks County.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Rooks County declined 4.9%, against +3.1% for the U.S. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t given a market score, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
How Rooks County compares
The same measures for Kansas 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 | Rooks County | Kansas | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 46.8 | 53.9 | 61.3 |
| Spending per listing | $735K | $725K | $664K |
| Households per official establishment | 214 | 534 | 500 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +0.6% | +1.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −4.9% | +1.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,441 | $3,910 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $62,500 | $74,275 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 49 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 7 → 10
- Employees, 2023
- 53
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $568K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 102 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 11The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $100K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in Rooks 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 Rooks County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 4,646−4.9% since 2020
- Households
- 2,136
- Median age
- 45.1
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 74%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.3
- Land area
- 891 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 5
- Median household income
- $62,500
- Average household income
- $77,532
- Median home value
- $89,000
- Jobs located here
- 1,701
- Daytime population
- 4,239Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Kansas
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Pottawatomie County, KS | 81 | 35 | 37.3 | $1.1M | +6.9% | #107 of 2,405 |
| 2Leavenworth County, KS | 81 | 119 | 39.5 | $1.1M | +3.2% | #112 of 2,405 |
| 3Miami County, KS | 79 | 51 | 37.1 | $1.1M | +5.9% | #145 of 2,405 |
| 4Butler County, KS | 78 | 106 | 41.8 | $963K | +3.1% | #173 of 2,405 |
| 5Johnson County, KS | 71 | 1,308 | 52.4 | $932K | +4.2% | #346 of 2,405 |
| 6Jackson County, KS | 67 | 23 | 45.9 | $822K | +1.5% | #468 of 2,405 |
| 7Jefferson County, KS | 66 | 33 | 44.5 | $910K | −0.2% | #492 of 2,405 |
| 8Dickinson County, KS | 60 | 36 | 44.9 | $811K | +1.4% | #744 of 2,405 |
| 9McPherson County, KS | 58 | 57 | 46.9 | $815K | −0.4% | #816 of 2,405 |
| 10Shawnee County, KS | 58 | 354 | 46.9 | $785K | 0.0% | #823 of 2,405 |
| Rooks County, KS | Not scored | 10 | 46.8 | $735K | −4.9% |
Other business types in Rooks 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 Rooks County, KS?
As of September 2026, map listings count 10 sit-down restaurants in Rooks County. 2 of them (20%) are chain locations. The listings count restaurants of every cuisine, pizza included. Official counts show 10 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in 2023.
How much do households in Rooks County, KS spend on food away from home?
About $7.3M a year, or $3,441 per household. That is 15% below the U.S. average (an index of 85, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 10 sit-down restaurants on map listings, it comes to $735K 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 2,136 households in Rooks County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Rooks County, KS compare with the U.S. for sit-down restaurants?
Rooks County has 46.8 sit-down restaurants per 10,000 households, 24% below the U.S. rate of 61.3. Spending per restaurant is $735K, 11% above the U.S. figure of $664K. At the U.S. ratio of sit-down restaurants to household spending, Rooks County would have about 11, against 10 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 214 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S.
How fast is Rooks County, KS growing?
Population estimates put Rooks County at 4,646 people in 2025, down 4.9% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 2,136 households. Median household income in Rooks County is $62,500, 23% 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.
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