Food and drink · Small-town market · North Carolina
Sit-down restaurants in the Anderson Creek, NC area
How the Anderson Creek, NC 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 89 out of 100: High
Ranked #4 of 538 scored small-town markets
#1 of 23 scored small-town markets based in North Carolina
- Listings
- 168
- 58 chain locations (35%)
- Official establishments
- 62
- +19.2% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $179M
- On food away from home · $3,592 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.1M
- 61% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 33.7
- 45% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 150,137
- +12.3% since 2020
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What this means
The Groundwork market score for sit-down restaurants in the Anderson Creek area is 89 (high), #4 of 538 scored small-town markets and #1 of 23 scored small-town markets based in North Carolina. That puts it in the top 10% of small-town markets for sit-down restaurants.
Household spending on food away from home in the Anderson Creek area comes to about $179M a year: $3,592 per household, 12% below the U.S. average. That works out to $1.1M per restaurant, 61% above the U.S. figure of $664K. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only sit-down restaurants.
There are 168 sit-down restaurants on map listings in the Anderson Creek area as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 35% of them, against 29% across the U.S. That comes to 33.7 for every 10,000 households, 45% below the U.S. rate of 61.3.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in the Anderson Creek area was 62 in 2023, up 19.2% from 2019. That is one for every 804 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 6 SBA-backed loans worth $4.9M have gone to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in the Anderson Creek area. Population estimates put the population change in the Anderson Creek area from 2020 to 2025 at +12.3%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How the Anderson Creek area compares
The same measures for North Carolina 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 | Anderson Creek area | North Carolina | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 33.7 | 53.3 | 61.3 |
| Spending per listing | $1.1M | $709K | $664K |
| Households per official establishment | 804 | 501 | 500 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +19.2% | +6.8% | +1.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +12.3% | +7.2% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,592 | $3,776 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $71,287 | $72,388 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 89 | 51 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 62+19.2% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 966
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $18.8M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 16Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 16858 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 270The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 6
- Amount
- $4.9M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in the Anderson Creek 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 Anderson Creek area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 150,137+12.3% since 2020
- Households
- 49,845
- Median age
- 37.0
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 71%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 595 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 234
- Median household income
- $71,287
- Average household income
- $89,999
- Median home value
- $246,200
- Jobs located here
- 27,545
- Daytime population
- 112,161Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every North Carolina market ranked →The highest-scoring small-town markets in North Carolina for sit-down restaurants, numbered among those based in North Carolina, with the Anderson Creek area marked.
Top small-town markets in North Carolina
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Anderson Creek, NC | 89 | 168 | 33.7 | $1.1M | +12.3% | #4 of 538 |
| 2New Bern, NC | 63 | 238 | 45.4 | $751K | +3.6% | #135 of 538 |
| 3Marion, NC | 61 | 69 | 37.0 | $864K | +1.5% | #151 of 538 |
| 4Shelby-Kings Mountain, NC | 58 | 178 | 45.8 | $715K | +3.4% | #188 of 538 |
| 5North Wilkesboro, NC | 56 | 105 | 38.7 | $776K | +0.6% | #201 of 538 |
| 6Laurinburg, NC | 54 | 50 | 39.7 | $743K | −0.3% | #221 of 538 |
| 7Sanford, NC | 53 | 128 | 50.9 | $671K | +10.8% | #238 of 538 |
| 8Albemarle, NC | 50 | 131 | 51.9 | $650K | +9.8% | #265 of 538 |
| 9Wilson, NC | 49 | 159 | 48.1 | $670K | +1.7% | #272 of 538 |
| 10Kinston, NC | 49 | 110 | 47.1 | $623K | +1.4% | #276 of 538 |
Other business types in the Anderson Creek area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes90
- Sit-down restaurants89
- Fast food and sandwich shops76
- Pizza71
- Coffee shops and cafes85
- Bakeries and dessert shops90
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Questions
How many sit-down restaurants are in the Anderson Creek, NC area?
As of September 2026, map listings count 168 sit-down restaurants in the Anderson Creek area. 58 of them (35%) are chain locations. The listings count restaurants of every cuisine, pizza included. Official counts show 62 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in 2023, up 19.2% from 2019. Official counts list 16 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in the Anderson Creek, NC area spend on food away from home?
About $179M a year, or $3,592 per household. That is 12% below the U.S. average (an index of 88, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 168 sit-down restaurants on map listings, it comes to $1.1M 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 49,845 households in the Anderson Creek area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Anderson Creek, NC area compare with the U.S. for sit-down restaurants?
The Anderson Creek area has 33.7 sit-down restaurants per 10,000 households, 45% below the U.S. rate of 61.3. Spending per restaurant is $1.1M, 61% above the U.S. figure of $664K. At the U.S. ratio of sit-down restaurants to household spending, the Anderson Creek area would have about 270, against 168 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 804 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. The official count rose 19.2% from 2019 to 2023, against +1.5% for the U.S.
How fast is the Anderson Creek, NC area growing?
Population estimates put the Anderson Creek area at 150,137 people in 2025, up 12.3% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 49,845 households. Median household income in the Anderson Creek area is $71,287, 12% 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. 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 Anderson Creek area scores 89 for sit-down restaurants (high), #4 of 538 scored small-town markets.
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