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Sit-down restaurants in Big Horn County, MT
How Big Horn County, MT 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 57 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #841 of 2,405 scored counties
#6 of 21 scored counties in Montana
- Listings
- 12
- 4 chain locations (33%)
- Official establishments
- 4
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $12M
- On food away from home · $3,133 a household
- Spending per listing
- $999K
- 51% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 31.4
- 49% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 12,752
- −2.5% since 2020
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What this means
At $3,133 per household (23% below the U.S. average), households in Big Horn County spend about $12M a year on food away from home. That works out to $999K per restaurant, 51% above the U.S. figure of $664K. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only sit-down restaurants.
Big Horn County has 12 sit-down restaurants on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 33% of them, against 29% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 31.4, 49% below the U.S. rate of 61.3.
Official counts show 4 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in Big Horn County in 2023. That is one for every 957 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Big Horn County declined 2.5%, against +3.1% for the U.S. The Groundwork market score for sit-down restaurants in Big Horn County is 57 (upper middle), #841 of 2,405 scored counties and #6 of 21 scored counties in Montana.
How Big Horn County compares
The same measures for Montana 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 | Big Horn County | Montana | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 31.4 | 52.4 | 61.3 |
| Spending per listing | $999K | $716K | $664K |
| Households per official establishment | 957 | 433 | 500 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | −1.0% | +1.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −2.5% | +5.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,133 | $3,748 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $58,750 | $72,509 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 57 | 43 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 6 → 4
- Employees, 2023
- 25
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $313K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 124 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
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in Big Horn 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 Big Horn County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 12,752−2.5% since 2020
- Households
- 3,827
- Median age
- 32.4
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 67%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.2
- Land area
- 4,998 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 3
- Median household income
- $58,750+17.8% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $73,454
- Median home value
- $143,400
- Jobs located here
- 3,877
- Daytime population
- 13,017Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Montana
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jefferson County, MT | 76 | 19 | 38.0 | $1.1M | +9.8% | #220 of 2,405 |
| 2Ravalli County, MT | 65 | 73 | 39.1 | $930K | +9.4% | #522 of 2,405 |
| 3Yellowstone County, MT | 65 | 302 | 43.2 | $900K | +4.5% | #526 of 2,405 |
| 4Missoula County, MT | 63 | 245 | 46.5 | $824K | +4.4% | #622 of 2,405 |
| 5Lewis and Clark County, MT | 62 | 142 | 45.5 | $863K | +5.8% | #662 of 2,405 |
| 6Big Horn County, MT | 57 | 12 | 31.4 | $999K | −2.5% | #841 of 2,405 |
| 7Cascade County, MT | 49 | 176 | 49.4 | $722K | +0.7% | #1,227 of 2,405 |
| 8Flathead County, MT | 47 | 259 | 58.6 | $649K | +10.1% | #1,330 of 2,405 |
| 9Gallatin County, MT | 46 | 372 | 72.6 | $601K | +7.7% | #1,386 of 2,405 |
| 10Fergus County, MT | 44 | 22 | 41.5 | $798K | +3.1% | #1,444 of 2,405 |
Other business types in Big Horn County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Questions
How many sit-down restaurants are in Big Horn County, MT?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 12 sit-down restaurants in Big Horn County. 4 of them (33%) are chain locations. The listings count restaurants of every cuisine, pizza included. Official counts show 4 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in 2023.
How much do households in Big Horn County, MT spend on food away from home?
About $12M a year, or $3,133 per household. That is 23% below the U.S. average (an index of 77, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 12 sit-down restaurants on map listings, it comes to $999K 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 3,827 households in Big Horn County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Big Horn County, MT compare with the U.S. for sit-down restaurants?
Big Horn County has 31.4 sit-down restaurants per 10,000 households, 49% below the U.S. rate of 61.3. Spending per restaurant is $999K, 51% above the U.S. figure of $664K. At the U.S. ratio of sit-down restaurants to household spending, Big Horn County would have about 18, against 12 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 957 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S.
How fast is Big Horn County, MT growing?
Population estimates put Big Horn County at 12,752 people in 2025, down 2.5% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 3,827 households. Median household income in Big Horn County is $58,750, 27% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 17.8%, 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. Big Horn County scores 57 for sit-down restaurants (upper middle), #841 of 2,405 scored counties.
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