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Sit-down restaurants in Cotton County, OK
How Cotton County, OK 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
- 9
- 1 chain location (11%)
- Official establishments
- 5
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $6.8M
- On food away from home · $3,315 a household
- Spending per listing
- $751K
- 13% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 44.1
- 28% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 5,432
- −1.9% since 2020
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What this means
Households in Cotton County spend about $6.8M a year on food away from home, or $3,315 per household, 19% below the U.S. average. Spread across 9 sit-down restaurants, that is $751K per restaurant, 13% above the U.S. figure of $664K. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only sit-down restaurants.
There are 9 sit-down restaurants on map listings in Cotton County as of September 2026. One of them (11%) is a chain location, against 29% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 44.1, 28% below the U.S. rate of 61.3.
Official counts show 5 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in Cotton County in 2023. That is one for every 408 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S.
Population estimates put the population change in Cotton County from 2020 to 2025 at −1.9%, 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 Cotton County compares
The same measures for Oklahoma 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 | Cotton County | Oklahoma | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 44.1 | 58.8 | 61.3 |
| Spending per listing | $751K | $599K | $664K |
| Households per official establishment | 408 | 522 | 500 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +3.2% | +1.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −1.9% | +4.0% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,315 | $3,519 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $58,425 | $65,039 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 36 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 5
- Employees, 2023
- 11
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $187K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 91 chain location
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 10The 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 Cotton 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 Cotton County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 5,432−1.9% since 2020
- Households
- 2,040
- Median age
- 44.0
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 80%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 633 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 9
- Median household income
- $58,425
- Average household income
- $87,447
- Median home value
- $113,900
- Jobs located here
- 1,631
- Daytime population
- 4,922Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
Looking at a specific site in Cotton County?
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Every Oklahoma market ranked →The highest-scoring counties in Oklahoma for sit-down restaurants, numbered among those based in Oklahoma, with Cotton County marked.
Top counties in Oklahoma
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Rogers County, OK | 87 | 113 | 30.8 | $1.3M | +7.1% | #50 of 2,405 |
| 2Wagoner County, OK | 86 | 115 | 36.6 | $1.1M | +14.6% | #57 of 2,405 |
| 3Logan County, OK | 83 | 79 | 44.3 | $909K | +11.5% | #88 of 2,405 |
| 4Grady County, OK | 81 | 60 | 29.0 | $1.3M | +7.7% | #105 of 2,405 |
| 5Canadian County, OK | 81 | 251 | 43.1 | $938K | +20.4% | #120 of 2,405 |
| 6Osage County, OK | 70 | 67 | 38.6 | $904K | +2.2% | #381 of 2,405 |
| 7Washita County, OK | 69 | 11 | 26.6 | $1.2M | −0.2% | #394 of 2,405 |
| 8Creek County, OK | 69 | 104 | 36.8 | $928K | +4.4% | #406 of 2,405 |
| 9McClain County, OK | 69 | 81 | 49.3 | $804K | +18.4% | #412 of 2,405 |
| 10Pawnee County, OK | 67 | 22 | 36.0 | $909K | +3.1% | #463 of 2,405 |
| Cotton County, OK | Not scored | 9 | 44.1 | $751K | −1.9% |
Other business types in Cotton 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 Cotton County, OK?
As of September 2026, map listings count 9 sit-down restaurants in Cotton County. One of them (11%) is a chain location. The listings count restaurants of every cuisine, pizza included. Official counts show 5 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in 2023.
How much do households in Cotton County, OK spend on food away from home?
About $6.8M a year, or $3,315 per household. That is 19% below the U.S. average (an index of 81, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 9 sit-down restaurants on map listings, it comes to $751K 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 2,040 households in Cotton County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Cotton County, OK compare with the U.S. for sit-down restaurants?
Cotton County has 44.1 sit-down restaurants per 10,000 households, 28% below the U.S. rate of 61.3. Spending per restaurant is $751K, 13% above the U.S. figure of $664K. At the U.S. ratio of sit-down restaurants to household spending, Cotton County would have about 10, against 9 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 408 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S.
How fast is Cotton County, OK growing?
Population estimates put Cotton County at 5,432 people in 2025, down 1.9% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 2,040 households. Median household income in Cotton County is $58,425, 28% 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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