Food and drink · Metro area · Maryland
Sit-down restaurants in the Lexington Park, MD metro area
How the Lexington Park, MD metro area compares with other metro areas and the U.S. for sit-down restaurants: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 83 out of 100: High
Ranked #11 of 387 scored metro areas
#1 of 4 scored metro areas based in Maryland
- Listings
- 358
- 117 chain locations (33%)
- Official establishments
- 115
- +1.8% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $384.8M
- On food away from home · $5,070 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.1M
- 62% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 47.2
- 23% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 211,176
- +2.1% since 2020
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What this means
For sit-down restaurants, the Lexington Park metro area has a Groundwork market score of 83 (high): #11 of 387 scored metro areas and #1 of 4 scored metro areas based in Maryland. That puts it in the top 10% of metro areas for sit-down restaurants.
As of September 2026, map listings count 358 sit-down restaurants in the Lexington Park metro area. 117 of them (33%) are chain locations, against 29% across the U.S. That is 47.2 per 10,000 households, 23% below the U.S. rate of 61.3.
Household spending on food away from home in the Lexington Park metro area comes to about $384.8M a year: $5,070 per household, 25% above the U.S. average. That works out to $1.1M per restaurant, 62% 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.
In 2023, official counts showed 115 businesses with payroll in the Lexington Park metro area classed as full-service restaurants, up 1.8% from 2019. That is one for every 660 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 8 SBA-backed loans worth $7.2M have gone to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in the Lexington Park metro area. Population estimates put the population change in the Lexington Park metro area from 2020 to 2025 at +2.1%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How the Lexington Park metro area compares
The same measures for Maryland 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 | Lexington Park metro area | Maryland | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 47.2 | 56.2 | 61.3 |
| Spending per listing | $1.1M | $820K | $664K |
| Households per official establishment | 660 | 621 | 500 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +1.8% | +6.6% | +1.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +2.1% | +1.4% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $5,070 | $4,604 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $126,256 | $103,678 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 83 | 80 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 115+1.8% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 2,872
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $69.9M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 20Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 358117 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 580The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 8
- Amount
- $7.2M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in the Lexington Park metro 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 Lexington Park metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 211,176+2.1% since 2020
- Households
- 75,901
- Median age
- 39.4
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 79%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.2
- Land area
- 572 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 366
- Median household income
- $126,256
- Average household income
- $149,864
- Median home value
- $434,100
- Jobs located here
- 57,104
- Daytime population
- 183,305Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Maryland market ranked →The highest-scoring metro areas in Maryland for sit-down restaurants, numbered among those based in Maryland (a market based in another state is listed without a number), with the Lexington Park metro area marked.
Top metro areas in Maryland
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Lexington Park, MD | 83 | 358 | 47.2 | $1.1M | +2.1% | #11 of 387 |
| 2Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV | 77 | 513 | 43.4 | $882K | +7.1% | #21 of 387 |
| 3Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD | 69 | 6,358 | 56.8 | $793K | +0.4% | #57 of 387 |
| Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV | 66 | 15,316 | 64.5 | $796K | +3.3% | #74 of 387 |
| Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD | 55 | 15,176 | 61.5 | $708K | +1.4% | #146 of 387 |
| 4Salisbury, MD | 51 | 275 | 56.3 | $659K | +2.9% | #181 of 387 |
Other business types in the Lexington Park metro area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes84
- Sit-down restaurants83
- Fast food and sandwich shops73
- Pizza72
- Coffee shops and cafes85
- Bakeries and dessert shops84
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Questions
How many sit-down restaurants are in the Lexington Park, MD metro area?
The Lexington Park metro area has 358 sit-down restaurants on map listings as of September 2026. 117 of them (33%) are chain locations. The listings count restaurants of every cuisine, pizza included. Official counts show 115 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in 2023, up 1.8% from 2019. Official counts list 20 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in the Lexington Park, MD metro area spend on food away from home?
About $384.8M a year, or $5,070 per household. That is 25% above the U.S. average (an index of 125, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 358 sit-down restaurants on map listings, it comes to $1.1M per restaurant. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only sit-down restaurants. It is estimated from the incomes of the 75,901 households in the Lexington Park metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Lexington Park, MD metro area compare with the U.S. for sit-down restaurants?
The Lexington Park metro area has 47.2 sit-down restaurants per 10,000 households, 23% below the U.S. rate of 61.3. Spending per restaurant is $1.1M, 62% above the U.S. figure of $664K. At the national ratio of sit-down restaurants to household spending, the Lexington Park metro area would have about 580, against 358 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 660 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. The official count rose 1.8% from 2019 to 2023, against +1.5% for the U.S.
How fast is the Lexington Park, MD metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Lexington Park metro area at 211,176 people in 2025, up 2.1% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 75,901 households. The median household income in the Lexington Park metro area is $126,256 a year, 56% above 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 Lexington Park metro area scores 83 for sit-down restaurants (high), #11 of 387 scored metro areas.
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