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Sit-down restaurants in Vernon Parish, LA
How Vernon Parish, LA 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 49 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #1,207 of 2,405 scored counties
#22 of 56 scored counties in Louisiana
- Listings
- 75
- 28 chain locations (37%)
- Official establishments
- 16
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $58.7M
- On food away from home · $3,209 a household
- Spending per listing
- $783K
- 18% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 41.0
- 33% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 45,091
- −7.3% since 2020
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 75 sit-down restaurants in Vernon Parish. Chain locations make up 37% of them, against 29% across the U.S. That comes to 41.0 for every 10,000 households, 33% below the U.S. rate of 61.3.
Household spending on food away from home in Vernon Parish comes to about $58.7M a year: $3,209 per household, 21% below the U.S. average. Spread across 75 sit-down restaurants, that is $783K per restaurant, 18% above 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.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in Vernon Parish was 16 in 2023. That is one for every 1,144 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. Another 9 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Vernon Parish declined 7.3%, against +3.1% for the U.S. For sit-down restaurants, Vernon Parish has a Groundwork market score of 49 (lower middle): #1,207 of 2,405 scored counties and #22 of 56 scored counties in Louisiana.
How Vernon Parish compares
The same measures for Louisiana 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 | Vernon Parish | Louisiana | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 41.0 | 60.1 | 61.3 |
| Spending per listing | $783K | $577K | $664K |
| Households per official establishment | 1,144 | 585 | 500 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +2.8% | +1.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −7.3% | −0.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,209 | $3,469 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $57,270 | $60,756 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 49 | 25 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 17 → 16
- Employees, 2023
- 222
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $5.1M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 9Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 7528 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 89The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in Vernon Parish, 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 Vernon Parish
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 45,091−7.3% since 2020
- Households
- 18,300
- Median age
- 35.5
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 56%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.8
- Land area
- 1,327 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 36
- Median household income
- $57,270+16.5% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $74,627
- Median home value
- $156,000
- Jobs located here
- 11,403
- Daytime population
- 43,022Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Louisiana
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Livingston Parish, LA | 79 | 207 | 38.6 | $975K | +8.5% | #150 of 2,405 |
| 2Ascension Parish, LA | 77 | 247 | 51.8 | $823K | +6.4% | #206 of 2,405 |
| 3West Baton Rouge Parish, LA | 74 | 55 | 50.1 | $776K | +5.5% | #287 of 2,405 |
| 4East Feliciana Parish, LA | 73 | 13 | 20.3 | $1.8M | −2.8% | #289 of 2,405 |
| 5Beauregard Parish, LA | 72 | 42 | 30.6 | $1.2M | +0.2% | #312 of 2,405 |
| 6St. James Parish, LA | 67 | 27 | 35.8 | $1M | −5.9% | #450 of 2,405 |
| 7Winn Parish, LA | 66 | 15 | 31.3 | $986K | +9.1% | #483 of 2,405 |
| 8Grant Parish, LA | 65 | 7 | 9.4 | $3.7M | −0.3% | #508 of 2,405 |
| 9St. Helena Parish, LA | 63 | 5 | 12.0 | $2.4M | −1.2% | #593 of 2,405 |
| 10Assumption Parish, LA | 63 | 22 | 24.9 | $1.3M | −5.9% | #595 of 2,405 |
| 22Vernon Parish, LA | 49 | 75 | 41.0 | $783K | −7.3% | #1,207 of 2,405 |
Other business types in Vernon Parish
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes48
- Sit-down restaurants49
- Fast food and sandwich shops39
- Pizza45
- Coffee shops and cafes42
- Bakeries and dessert shops45
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Questions
How many sit-down restaurants are in Vernon Parish, LA?
Vernon Parish has 75 sit-down restaurants on map listings as of September 2026. 28 of them (37%) are chain locations. The listings count restaurants of every cuisine, pizza included. Official counts show 16 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in 2023. Official counts list 9 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Vernon Parish, LA spend on food away from home?
About $58.7M a year, or $3,209 per household. That is 21% below the U.S. average (an index of 79, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 75 sit-down restaurants on map listings, it comes to $783K per restaurant. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only sit-down restaurants. It is estimated from the incomes of the 18,300 households in Vernon Parish and national spending patterns by income.
How does Vernon Parish, LA compare with the U.S. for sit-down restaurants?
Vernon Parish has 41.0 sit-down restaurants per 10,000 households, 33% below the U.S. rate of 61.3. Spending per restaurant is $783K, 18% above the U.S. figure of $664K. At the national ratio of sit-down restaurants to household spending, Vernon Parish would have about 89, against 75 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,144 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S.
How fast is Vernon Parish, LA growing?
Population estimates put Vernon Parish at 45,091 people in 2025, down 7.3% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 18,300 households. The median household income in Vernon Parish is $57,270 a year, 29% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 16.5% 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. 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. Vernon Parish scores 49 for sit-down restaurants (lower middle), #1,207 of 2,405 scored counties.
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