Food and drink · Small-town market · New York
Sit-down restaurants in the Jamestown-Dunkirk, NY area
How the Jamestown-Dunkirk, NY area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for sit-down restaurants: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 24 out of 100: Low
Ranked #500 of 538 scored small-town markets
#14 of 14 scored small-town markets based in New York
- Listings
- 310
- 53 chain locations (17%)
- Official establishments
- 115
- −16.1% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $176.1M
- On food away from home · $3,299 a household
- Spending per listing
- $568K
- 14% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 58.1
- 5% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 124,126
- −2.6% since 2020
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What this means
The Jamestown-Dunkirk area scores 24 (low) on the Groundwork market score for sit-down restaurants, ranking #500 of 538 scored small-town markets and #14 of 14 scored small-town markets based in New York. That puts it in the bottom quarter of small-town markets.
Households in the Jamestown-Dunkirk area spend about $176.1M a year on food away from home, or $3,299 per household, 19% below the U.S. average. That is about $568K of household spending for each restaurant on map listings, 14% below the U.S. figure of $664K. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only sit-down restaurants.
The Jamestown-Dunkirk area has 310 sit-down restaurants on map listings as of September 2026. 53 of them (17%) are chain locations, against 29% across the U.S. That is 58.1 per 10,000 households, 5% below the U.S. rate of 61.3.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in the Jamestown-Dunkirk area was 115 in 2023, down 16.1% from 2019. That is one for every 464 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 7 SBA-backed loans worth $654K have gone to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in the Jamestown-Dunkirk area. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Jamestown-Dunkirk area declined 2.6%, against +3.1% for the U.S.
How the Jamestown-Dunkirk area compares
The same measures for New York 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 | Jamestown-Dunkirk area | New York | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 58.1 | 72.5 | 61.3 |
| Spending per listing | $568K | $589K | $664K |
| Households per official establishment | 464 | 392 | 500 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | −16.1% | −3.4% | +1.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −2.6% | −0.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,299 | $4,270 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $58,351 | $85,974 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 24 | 21 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 115−16.1% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 1,460
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $31.9M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 10Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 31053 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 265The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 7
- Amount
- $654K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in the Jamestown-Dunkirk 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 Jamestown-Dunkirk area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 124,126−2.6% since 2020
- Households
- 53,393
- Median age
- 43.3
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 69%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.6
- Land area
- 1,060 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 118
- Median household income
- $58,351+24.6% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $76,000
- Median home value
- $127,900
- Jobs located here
- 44,855
- Daytime population
- 120,603Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top small-town markets in New York
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Auburn, NY | 61 | 127 | 40.3 | $888K | −2.3% | #150 of 538 |
| 2Seneca Falls, NY | 58 | 54 | 39.7 | $890K | −1.7% | #178 of 538 |
| 3Plattsburgh, NY | 58 | 139 | 41.4 | $884K | −2.0% | #179 of 538 |
| 4Corning, NY | 58 | 161 | 41.1 | $867K | −1.6% | #180 of 538 |
| 5Gloversville, NY | 55 | 89 | 38.9 | $899K | −1.6% | #210 of 538 |
| 6Batavia, NY | 55 | 119 | 47.8 | $768K | +0.2% | #214 of 538 |
| 7Amsterdam, NY | 54 | 95 | 48.5 | $724K | +1.1% | #222 of 538 |
| 8Massena-Ogdensburg, NY | 52 | 162 | 38.9 | $882K | −2.5% | #244 of 538 |
| 9Cortland, NY | 48 | 93 | 48.9 | $734K | −1.9% | #285 of 538 |
| 10Hudson, NY | 47 | 146 | 54.8 | $761K | −2.1% | #300 of 538 |
| 14Jamestown-Dunkirk, NY | 24 | 310 | 58.1 | $568K | −2.6% | #500 of 538 |
Other business types in the Jamestown-Dunkirk area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes24
- Sit-down restaurants24
- Fast food and sandwich shops51
- Pizza30
- Coffee shops and cafes28
- Bakeries and dessert shops25
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Questions
How many sit-down restaurants are in the Jamestown-Dunkirk, NY area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 310 sit-down restaurants in the Jamestown-Dunkirk area. 53 of them (17%) 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, down 16.1% from 2019. Another 10 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.
How much do households in the Jamestown-Dunkirk, NY area spend on food away from home?
About $176.1M a year, or $3,299 per household. That is 19% below the U.S. average (an index of 81, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 310 sit-down restaurants on map listings, it comes to $568K 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 53,393 households in the Jamestown-Dunkirk area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Jamestown-Dunkirk, NY area compare with the U.S. for sit-down restaurants?
The Jamestown-Dunkirk area has 58.1 sit-down restaurants per 10,000 households, 5% below the U.S. rate of 61.3. Spending per restaurant is $568K, 14% below the U.S. figure of $664K. At the U.S. ratio of sit-down restaurants to household spending, the Jamestown-Dunkirk area would have about 265, against 310 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 464 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. The official count fell 16.1% from 2019 to 2023, against +1.5% for the U.S.
How fast is the Jamestown-Dunkirk, NY area growing?
Population estimates put the Jamestown-Dunkirk area at 124,126 people in 2025, down 2.6% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 53,393 households. Median household income in the Jamestown-Dunkirk area is $58,351, 28% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 24.6%, 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. A small-town market is a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people and the county or counties tied to it by commuting. 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 Jamestown-Dunkirk area scores 24 for sit-down restaurants (low), #500 of 538 scored small-town markets.
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