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Sit-down restaurants in Wilkinson County, MS
How Wilkinson County, MS 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
- 18
- 1 chain location (6%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $8.1M
- On food away from home · $2,531 a household
- Spending per listing
- $448K
- 33% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 56.5
- 8% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 7,582
- −11.0% since 2020
See the sit-down restaurants around any address in Wilkinson County
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 18 sit-down restaurants in Wilkinson County. One of them (6%) is a chain location, against 29% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 56.5, 8% below the U.S. rate of 61.3.
At $2,531 per household (38% below the U.S. average), households in Wilkinson County spend about $8.1M a year on food away from home. That is about $448K of household spending for each restaurant on map listings, 33% below 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.
There is no official count of businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in Wilkinson County: counts under 3 aren’t published.
Population estimates show Wilkinson County declined 11.0% from 2020 to 2025, 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 Wilkinson County 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.
| Measure | Wilkinson County | Mississippi | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 56.5 | 55.4 | 61.3 |
| Spending per listing | $448K | $593K | $664K |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 654 | 500 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +2.1% | +1.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −11.0% | −0.1% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $2,531 | $3,288 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $35,311 | $56,447 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 33 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- n/a
- Employees, 2023
- n/a
- Annual payroll, 2023
- n/a
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 181 chain location
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 12The 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 Wilkinson 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 Wilkinson County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 7,582−11.0% since 2020
- Households
- 3,185
- Median age
- 41.9
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 78%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.5
- Land area
- 678 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 12
- Median household income
- $35,311
- Average household income
- $50,587
- Median home value
- $90,000
- Jobs located here
- 1,449
- Daytime population
- 6,975Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
Looking at a specific site in Wilkinson County?
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Top counties in Mississippi
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Tate County, MS | 70 | 40 | 36.3 | $941K | +2.1% | #377 of 2,405 |
| 2Greene County, MS | 64 | 8 | 19.5 | $1.6M | +1.3% | #546 of 2,405 |
| 3Amite County, MS | 63 | 6 | 10.3 | $2.6M | −1.7% | #592 of 2,405 |
| 4Walthall County, MS | 63 | 17 | 32.1 | $967K | +0.4% | #609 of 2,405 |
| 5Leake County, MS | 61 | 26 | 35.1 | $846K | +1.9% | #707 of 2,405 |
| 6Itawamba County, MS | 59 | 33 | 34.3 | $952K | +1.3% | #768 of 2,405 |
| 7George County, MS | 59 | 42 | 45.2 | $747K | +8.1% | #785 of 2,405 |
| 8Rankin County, MS | 59 | 346 | 57.5 | $673K | +3.2% | #793 of 2,405 |
| 9Perry County, MS | 58 | 10 | 21.5 | $1.4M | +1.1% | #794 of 2,405 |
| 10Smith County, MS | 57 | 15 | 26.8 | $1.2M | −1.5% | #836 of 2,405 |
| Wilkinson County, MS | Not scored | 18 | 56.5 | $448K | −11.0% |
Other business types in Wilkinson 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 Wilkinson County, MS?
Wilkinson County has 18 sit-down restaurants on map listings as of September 2026. One of them (6%) is a chain location. The listings count restaurants of every cuisine, pizza included. No official count is published for full-service restaurants in Wilkinson County: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in Wilkinson County, MS spend on food away from home?
About $8.1M a year, or $2,531 per household. That is 38% below the U.S. average (an index of 62, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 18 sit-down restaurants on map listings, it comes to $448K per restaurant. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only sit-down restaurants. It is estimated from the incomes of the 3,185 households in Wilkinson County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Wilkinson County, MS compare with the U.S. for sit-down restaurants?
Wilkinson County has 56.5 sit-down restaurants per 10,000 households, 8% below the U.S. rate of 61.3. Spending per restaurant is $448K, 33% below the U.S. figure of $664K. At the national ratio of sit-down restaurants to household spending, Wilkinson County would have about 12, against 18 on map listings.
How fast is Wilkinson County, MS growing?
Population estimates put Wilkinson County at 7,582 people in 2025, down 11.0% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 3,185 households. The median household income in Wilkinson County is $35,311 a year, 56% 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.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
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