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Sit-down restaurants in the Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ metro area
How the Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ 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 22 out of 100: Low
Ranked #373 of 387 scored metro areas
#3 of 3 scored metro areas based in New Jersey
- Listings
- 1,898
- 276 chain locations (15%)
- Official establishments
- 646
- +0.3% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $627.2M
- On food away from home · $4,061 a household
- Spending per listing
- $330K
- 50% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 122.9
- Twice the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 372,047
- +0.8% since 2020
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What this means
For sit-down restaurants, the Atlantic City-Hammonton metro area has a Groundwork market score of 22 (low): #373 of 387 scored metro areas and #3 of 3 scored metro areas based in New Jersey. That puts it in the bottom quarter of metro areas.
As of September 2026, map listings count 1,898 sit-down restaurants in the Atlantic City-Hammonton metro area. Chain locations make up 15% of them, against 29% across the U.S. That is 122.9 per 10,000 households, twice the U.S. rate of 61.3.
Households in the Atlantic City-Hammonton metro area spend about $627.2M a year on food away from home, or $4,061 per household, in line with the U.S. average. That is about $330K of household spending for each restaurant on map listings, 50% 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.
Official counts show 646 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in the Atlantic City-Hammonton metro area in 2023, up 0.3% from 2019. That is one for every 239 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 27 SBA-backed loans worth $33M have gone to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in the Atlantic City-Hammonton metro area. Population estimates show the Atlantic City-Hammonton metro area grew 0.8% from 2020 to 2025, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How the Atlantic City-Hammonton metro area compares
The same measures for New Jersey 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 | Atlantic City-Hammonton metro area | New Jersey | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 122.9 | 77.9 | 61.3 |
| Spending per listing | $330K | $601K | $664K |
| Households per official establishment | 239 | 435 | 500 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +0.3% | +2.1% | +1.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +0.8% | +3.0% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $4,061 | $4,680 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $82,105 | $103,556 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 22 | 44 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 646+0.3% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 10,287
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $398.2M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 61Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 1,898276 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 945The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 27
- Amount
- $33M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in the Atlantic City-Hammonton 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 Atlantic City-Hammonton metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 372,047+0.8% since 2020
- Households
- 154,441
- Median age
- 44.5
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 72%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.7
- Land area
- 807 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 460
- Median household income
- $82,105
- Average household income
- $110,931
- Median home value
- $331,700
- Jobs located here
- 158,202
- Daytime population
- 359,111Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every New Jersey market ranked →The highest-scoring metro areas in New Jersey for sit-down restaurants, numbered among those based in New Jersey (a market based in another state is listed without a number), with the Atlantic City-Hammonton metro area marked.
Top metro areas in New Jersey
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD | 55 | 15,176 | 61.5 | $708K | +1.4% | #146 of 387 |
| Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ | 54 | 1,926 | 56.7 | $726K | +3.0% | #156 of 387 |
| 1Trenton-Princeton, NJ | 44 | 1,092 | 75.8 | $610K | +3.3% | #240 of 387 |
| 2Vineland, NJ | 42 | 330 | 61.4 | $591K | +2.2% | #265 of 387 |
| New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ | 30 | 60,910 | 82.4 | $559K | +0.6% | #346 of 387 |
| 3Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ | 22 | 1,898 | 122.9 | $330K | +0.8% | #373 of 387 |
Other business types in the Atlantic City-Hammonton metro area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes22
- Sit-down restaurants22
- Fast food and sandwich shops33
- Pizza23
- Coffee shops and cafes24
- Bakeries and dessert shops22
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Questions
How many sit-down restaurants are in the Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ metro area?
The Atlantic City-Hammonton metro area has 1,898 sit-down restaurants on map listings as of September 2026. 276 of them (15%) are chain locations. The listings count restaurants of every cuisine, pizza included. Official counts show 646 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in 2023, up 0.3% from 2019. Official counts list 61 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in the Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ metro area spend on food away from home?
About $627.2M a year, or $4,061 per household. That is in line with the U.S. average (an index of 100, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1,898 sit-down restaurants on map listings, it comes to $330K per restaurant. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only sit-down restaurants. It is estimated from the incomes of the 154,441 households in the Atlantic City-Hammonton metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ metro area compare with the U.S. for sit-down restaurants?
The Atlantic City-Hammonton metro area has 122.9 sit-down restaurants per 10,000 households, twice the U.S. rate of 61.3. Spending per restaurant is $330K, 50% below the U.S. figure of $664K. At the national ratio of sit-down restaurants to household spending, the Atlantic City-Hammonton metro area would have about 945, against 1,898 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 239 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. The official count rose 0.3% from 2019 to 2023, against +1.5% for the U.S.
How fast is the Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Atlantic City-Hammonton metro area at 372,047 people in 2025, up 0.8% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 154,441 households. The median household income in the Atlantic City-Hammonton metro area is $82,105 a year, 2% 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 Atlantic City-Hammonton metro area scores 22 for sit-down restaurants (low), #373 of 387 scored metro areas.
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