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Sit-down restaurants in Bracken County, KY
How Bracken County, KY 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
- 14
- 2 chain locations (14%)
- Official establishments
- 8
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $12.1M
- On food away from home · $3,595 a household
- Spending per listing
- $864K
- 30% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 41.6
- 32% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 8,511
- +1.3% since 2020
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What this means
At $3,595 per household (12% below the U.S. average), households in Bracken County spend about $12.1M a year on food away from home. That is about $864K of household spending for each restaurant on map listings, 30% above the U.S. figure of $664K. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only sit-down restaurants.
Bracken County has 14 sit-down restaurants on map listings as of September 2026. 2 of them (14%) are chain locations, against 29% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 41.6, 32% below the U.S. rate of 61.3.
In 2023, official counts showed 8 businesses with payroll in Bracken County classed as full-service restaurants. That is one for every 421 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $132K has gone to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in Bracken County.
Population estimates show Bracken County grew 1.3% from 2020 to 2025, slower than 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 Bracken County compares
The same measures for Kentucky 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 | Bracken County | Kentucky | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 41.6 | 49.3 | 61.3 |
| Spending per listing | $864K | $707K | $664K |
| Households per official establishment | 421 | 646 | 500 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +1.2% | +1.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +1.3% | +2.2% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,595 | $3,489 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $66,319 | $63,726 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 50 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 6 → 8
- Employees, 2023
- 97
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $1.5M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 142 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 18The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $132K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in Bracken 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 Bracken County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 8,511+1.3% since 2020
- Households
- 3,364
- Median age
- 41.5
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 79%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.3
- Land area
- 203 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 42
- Median household income
- $66,319
- Average household income
- $85,986
- Median home value
- $125,000
- Jobs located here
- 1,381
- Daytime population
- 7,258Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Kentucky
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Spencer County, KY | 95 | 18 | 24.6 | $1.8M | +7.7% | #4 of 2,405 |
| 2Oldham County, KY | 88 | 79 | 34.3 | $1.5M | +4.9% | #36 of 2,405 |
| 3Bullitt County, KY | 88 | 97 | 30.6 | $1.3M | +5.0% | #40 of 2,405 |
| 4Jessamine County, KY | 83 | 66 | 33.1 | $1.1M | +7.8% | #85 of 2,405 |
| 5Grant County, KY | 78 | 28 | 30.4 | $1.1M | +4.7% | #158 of 2,405 |
| 6Henry County, KY | 77 | 15 | 24.4 | $1.4M | +4.8% | #183 of 2,405 |
| 7Meade County, KY | 77 | 37 | 33.6 | $1.1M | +2.2% | #187 of 2,405 |
| 8Allen County, KY | 77 | 24 | 29.9 | $1.1M | +9.5% | #190 of 2,405 |
| 9Lincoln County, KY | 76 | 23 | 23.7 | $1.3M | +4.6% | #211 of 2,405 |
| 10Shelby County, KY | 75 | 72 | 39.0 | $1M | +6.2% | #242 of 2,405 |
| Bracken County, KY | Not scored | 14 | 41.6 | $864K | +1.3% |
Other business types in Bracken 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 Bracken County, KY?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 14 sit-down restaurants in Bracken County. 2 of them (14%) are chain locations. The listings count restaurants of every cuisine, pizza included. Official counts show 8 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in 2023.
How much do households in Bracken County, KY spend on food away from home?
About $12.1M a year, or $3,595 per household. That is 12% below the U.S. average (an index of 88, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 14 sit-down restaurants on map listings, it comes to $864K 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 3,364 households in Bracken County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Bracken County, KY compare with the U.S. for sit-down restaurants?
Bracken County has 41.6 sit-down restaurants per 10,000 households, 32% below the U.S. rate of 61.3. Spending per restaurant is $864K, 30% above the U.S. figure of $664K. At the U.S. ratio of sit-down restaurants to household spending, Bracken County would have about 18, against 14 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 421 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S.
How fast is Bracken County, KY growing?
Population estimates put Bracken County at 8,511 people in 2025, up 1.3% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 3,364 households. Median household income in Bracken County is $66,319, 18% 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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