Food and drink · Metro area · Oklahoma
Sit-down restaurants in the Lawton, OK metro area
How the Lawton, OK 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 33 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #320 of 387 scored metro areas
#3 of 4 scored metro areas based in Oklahoma
- Listings
- 239
- 109 chain locations (46%)
- Official establishments
- 81
- +24.6% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $154.9M
- On food away from home · $3,300 a household
- Spending per listing
- $648K
- 2% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 50.9
- 17% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 127,590
- +0.7% since 2020
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What this means
The Groundwork market score for sit-down restaurants in the Lawton metro area is 33 (lower middle), #320 of 387 scored metro areas and #3 of 4 scored metro areas based in Oklahoma. That puts it in the bottom quarter of metro areas.
Household spending on food away from home in the Lawton metro area comes to about $154.9M a year: $3,300 per household, 19% below the U.S. average. That is about $648K of household spending for each restaurant on map listings, 2% below the U.S. figure of $664K. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only sit-down restaurants.
The Lawton metro area has 239 sit-down restaurants on map listings as of September 2026. Of those, 109 are chain locations, or 46%, against 29% across the U.S. That is 50.9 per 10,000 households, 17% below the U.S. rate of 61.3.
Official counts show 81 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in the Lawton metro area in 2023, up 24.6% from 2019. That is one for every 579 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $925K has gone to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in the Lawton metro area. Population estimates put the population change in the Lawton metro area from 2020 to 2025 at +0.7%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How the Lawton metro area 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 | Lawton metro area | Oklahoma | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 50.9 | 58.8 | 61.3 |
| Spending per listing | $648K | $599K | $664K |
| Households per official establishment | 579 | 522 | 500 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +24.6% | +3.2% | +1.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +0.7% | +4.0% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,300 | $3,519 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $60,665 | $65,039 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 33 | 36 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 81+24.6% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 1,676
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $30.2M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 24Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 239109 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 233The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $925K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in the Lawton 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 Lawton metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 127,590+0.7% since 2020
- Households
- 46,938
- Median age
- 36.4
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 57%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.8
- Land area
- 1,702 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 75
- Median household income
- $60,665+16.5% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $78,396
- Median home value
- $161,000
- Jobs located here
- 38,111
- Daytime population
- 121,235Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Free10 actions over 3 days, no cardSit-down restaurants across Oklahoma
Every Oklahoma market ranked →The highest-scoring metro areas in Oklahoma for sit-down restaurants, numbered among those based in Oklahoma (a market based in another state is listed without a number), with the Lawton metro area marked.
Top metro areas in Oklahoma
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Tulsa, OK | 43 | 2,336 | 57.5 | $638K | +5.1% | #249 of 387 |
| 2Oklahoma City, OK | 35 | 3,678 | 64.4 | $578K | +5.8% | #314 of 387 |
| 3Lawton, OK | 33 | 239 | 50.9 | $648K | +0.7% | #320 of 387 |
| Fort Smith, AR-OK | 28 | 528 | 58.0 | $566K | +3.1% | #355 of 387 |
| 4Enid, OK | 21 | 138 | 57.8 | $597K | −1.5% | #375 of 387 |
Other business types in the Lawton metro area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes30
- Sit-down restaurants33
- Fast food and sandwich shops24
- Pizza24
- Coffee shops and cafes40
- Bakeries and dessert shops32
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Questions
How many sit-down restaurants are in the Lawton, OK metro area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 239 sit-down restaurants in the Lawton metro area. 109 of them (46%) are chain locations. The listings count restaurants of every cuisine, pizza included. Official counts show 81 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in 2023, up 24.6% from 2019. Official counts also show 24 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in the Lawton, OK metro area spend on food away from home?
About $154.9M a year, or $3,300 per household. That is 19% below the U.S. average (an index of 81, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 239 sit-down restaurants on map listings, it comes to $648K 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 46,938 households in the Lawton metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Lawton, OK metro area compare with the U.S. for sit-down restaurants?
The Lawton metro area has 50.9 sit-down restaurants per 10,000 households, 17% below the U.S. rate of 61.3. Spending per restaurant is $648K, 2% below the U.S. figure of $664K. At the U.S. ratio of sit-down restaurants to household spending, the Lawton metro area would have about 233, against 239 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 579 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. The official count rose 24.6% from 2019 to 2023, against +1.5% for the U.S.
How fast is the Lawton, OK metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Lawton metro area at 127,590 people in 2025, up 0.7% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 46,938 households. Median household income in the Lawton metro area is $60,665, 25% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 16.5%, 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. The Lawton metro area scores 33 for sit-down restaurants (lower middle), #320 of 387 scored metro areas.
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