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Sit-down restaurants in the Gulfport-Biloxi, MS metro area

How the Gulfport-Biloxi, MS 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 25 out of 100: Lower middle

Ranked #363 of 387 scored metro areas
#3 of 3 scored metro areas based in Mississippi

Listings
1,021
307 chain locations (30%)
Official establishments
352
+10.7% since 2019
Household spending a year
$578.2M
On food away from home · $3,443 a household
Spending per listing
$566K
15% below the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
60.8
In line with the U.S.
Population, 2025
431,329
+3.5% since 2020

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Survey estimates 2020–2024 · population estimates 2025 · official business counts 2023 · map listings September 2026 · Data credits · How we measure

What this means

For sit-down restaurants, the Gulfport-Biloxi metro area has a Groundwork market score of 25 (lower middle): #363 of 387 scored metro areas and #3 of 3 scored metro areas based in Mississippi. That puts it in the bottom quarter of metro areas.

Household spending on food away from home in the Gulfport-Biloxi metro area comes to about $578.2M a year: $3,443 per household, 15% below the U.S. average. That works out to $566K per restaurant, 15% below the U.S. figure of $664K. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only sit-down restaurants.

There are 1,021 sit-down restaurants on map listings in the Gulfport-Biloxi metro area as of September 2026. 307 of them (30%) are chain locations, against 29% across the U.S. That comes to 60.8 for every 10,000 households, in line with the U.S. rate of 61.3.

In 2023, official counts showed 352 businesses with payroll in the Gulfport-Biloxi metro area classed as full-service restaurants, up 10.7% from 2019. That is one for every 477 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 11 SBA-backed loans worth $5.2M have gone to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in the Gulfport-Biloxi metro area. Population estimates show the Gulfport-Biloxi metro area grew 3.5% from 2020 to 2025, in step with the U.S. (+3.1%).

How the Gulfport-Biloxi metro area compares

The same measures for Mississippi 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.

Sit-down restaurants in Gulfport-Biloxi, MS metro area compared with Mississippi and the U.S.
MeasureGulfport-Biloxi metro areaMississippiU.S.
Listings per 10k households60.855.461.3
Spending per listing$566K$593K$664K
Households per official establishment477654500
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023+10.7%+2.1%+1.5%
Population growth, 2020–2025+3.5%−0.1%+3.1%
Spending per household on food away from home$3,443$3,288$4,070
Median household income$62,418$56,447$80,734
Groundwork market score2533

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
352+10.7% over the period
Employees, 2023
7,836
Annual payroll, 2023
$177.5M
One-person businesses, 2023
87Businesses with no payroll
Map listings, September 2026
1,021307 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
871The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here

SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022

Loans
11
Amount
$5.2M

SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in the Gulfport-Biloxi 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 Gulfport-Biloxi metro area

Population, 2025 estimate
431,329+3.5% since 2020
Households
167,947
Median age
40.4
Homes lived in by their owners
69%
Vehicles per household
1.9
Land area
2,216 sq. mi.
People per square mile
190
Median household income
$62,418+27.2% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$84,681
Median home value
$205,000
Jobs located here
157,472
Daytime population
413,801Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Sit-down restaurants across Mississippi

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The highest-scoring metro areas in Mississippi for sit-down restaurants, numbered among those based in Mississippi (a market based in another state is listed without a number), with the Gulfport-Biloxi metro area marked.

Top metro areas in Mississippi

Metro areas in Mississippi ranked for sit-down restaurants by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1Jackson, MS341,41659.5$580K−1.4%#315 of 387
Memphis, TN-MS-AR323,36264.3$565K−0.3%#331 of 387
2Hattiesburg, MS2939866.2$511K+2.6%#353 of 387
3Gulfport-Biloxi, MS251,02160.8$566K+3.5%#363 of 387

Other business types in the Gulfport-Biloxi metro area

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Questions

How many sit-down restaurants are in the Gulfport-Biloxi, MS metro area?

As of September 2026, map listings count 1,021 sit-down restaurants in the Gulfport-Biloxi metro area. 307 of them (30%) are chain locations. The listings count restaurants of every cuisine, pizza included. Official counts show 352 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in 2023, up 10.7% from 2019. Another 87 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.

How much do households in the Gulfport-Biloxi, MS metro area spend on food away from home?

About $578.2M a year, or $3,443 per household. That is 15% below the U.S. average (an index of 85, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1,021 sit-down restaurants on map listings, it comes to $566K 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 167,947 households in the Gulfport-Biloxi metro area and national spending patterns by income.

How does the Gulfport-Biloxi, MS metro area compare with the U.S. for sit-down restaurants?

The Gulfport-Biloxi metro area has 60.8 sit-down restaurants per 10,000 households, in line with the U.S. rate of 61.3. Spending per restaurant is $566K, 15% below the U.S. figure of $664K. At the U.S. ratio of sit-down restaurants to household spending, the Gulfport-Biloxi metro area would have about 871, against 1,021 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 477 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. The official count rose 10.7% from 2019 to 2023, against +1.5% for the U.S.

How fast is the Gulfport-Biloxi, MS metro area growing?

Population estimates put the Gulfport-Biloxi metro area at 431,329 people in 2025, up 3.5% since 2020, in step with the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 167,947 households. Median household income in the Gulfport-Biloxi metro area is $62,418, 23% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 27.2%, 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. The Gulfport-Biloxi metro area scores 25 for sit-down restaurants (lower middle), #363 of 387 scored metro areas.

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