Food and drink · Small-town market · Pennsylvania
Sit-down restaurants in the Huntingdon, PA area
How the Huntingdon, PA 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 59 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #172 of 538 scored small-town markets
#8 of 20 scored small-town markets based in Pennsylvania
- Listings
- 65
- 17 chain locations (26%)
- Official establishments
- 26
- −3.7% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $56.9M
- On food away from home · $3,481 a household
- Spending per listing
- $875K
- 32% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 39.8
- 35% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 43,001
- −2.4% since 2020
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What this means
At $3,481 per household (14% below the U.S. average), households in the Huntingdon area spend about $56.9M a year on food away from home. Spread across 65 sit-down restaurants, that is $875K per restaurant, 32% above the U.S. figure of $664K. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only sit-down restaurants.
The Huntingdon area has 65 sit-down restaurants on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 26% of them, against 29% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 39.8, 35% below the U.S. rate of 61.3.
Official counts show 26 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in the Huntingdon area in 2023, down 3.7% from 2019. That is one for every 629 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. Official counts also show 4 one-person businesses without payroll.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Huntingdon area declined 2.4%, against +3.1% for the U.S. The Groundwork market score for sit-down restaurants in the Huntingdon area is 59 (upper middle), #172 of 538 scored small-town markets and #8 of 20 scored small-town markets based in Pennsylvania.
How the Huntingdon area compares
The same measures for Pennsylvania 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 | Huntingdon area | Pennsylvania | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 39.8 | 53.7 | 61.3 |
| Spending per listing | $875K | $740K | $664K |
| Households per official establishment | 629 | 559 | 500 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | −3.7% | −2.3% | +1.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −2.4% | +0.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,481 | $3,973 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $65,557 | $77,971 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 59 | 56 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 26−3.7% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 312
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $4.7M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 4Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 6517 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 86The 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 the Huntingdon 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 Huntingdon area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 43,001−2.4% since 2020
- Households
- 16,341
- Median age
- 44.6
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 79%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 875 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 50
- Median household income
- $65,557+26.9% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $82,223
- Median home value
- $183,200
- Jobs located here
- 12,439
- Daytime population
- 39,299Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Pennsylvania market ranked →The highest-scoring small-town markets in Pennsylvania for sit-down restaurants, numbered among those based in Pennsylvania, with the Huntingdon area marked.
Top small-town markets in Pennsylvania
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Hemlock Farms, PA | 84 | 98 | 40.4 | $987K | +7.2% | #11 of 538 |
| 2Sayre, PA | 70 | 69 | 28.0 | $1.2M | −0.6% | #72 of 538 |
| 3Pottsville, PA | 64 | 253 | 43.6 | $806K | +1.5% | #117 of 538 |
| 4Lewistown, PA | 62 | 65 | 35.1 | $943K | 0.0% | #140 of 538 |
| 5Oil City, PA | 61 | 73 | 34.1 | $966K | −2.0% | #147 of 538 |
| 6Sunbury, PA | 61 | 167 | 36.5 | $952K | −1.7% | #148 of 538 |
| 7Lewisburg, PA | 60 | 70 | 48.1 | $793K | −0.8% | #163 of 538 |
| 8Huntingdon, PA | 59 | 65 | 39.8 | $875K | −2.4% | #172 of 538 |
| 9Warren, PA | 57 | 56 | 34.7 | $952K | −3.8% | #191 of 538 |
| 10Somerset, PA | 54 | 118 | 40.2 | $831K | −2.7% | #220 of 538 |
Other business types in the Huntingdon area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes66
- Sit-down restaurants59
- Fast food and sandwich shops66
- Pizza51
- Coffee shops and cafes63
- Bakeries and dessert shops59
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Questions
How many sit-down restaurants are in the Huntingdon, PA area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 65 sit-down restaurants in the Huntingdon area. 17 of them (26%) are chain locations. The listings count restaurants of every cuisine, pizza included. Official counts show 26 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in 2023, down 3.7% from 2019. Another 4 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.
How much do households in the Huntingdon, PA area spend on food away from home?
About $56.9M a year, or $3,481 per household. That is 14% below the U.S. average (an index of 86, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 65 sit-down restaurants on map listings, it comes to $875K 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 16,341 households in the Huntingdon area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Huntingdon, PA area compare with the U.S. for sit-down restaurants?
The Huntingdon area has 39.8 sit-down restaurants per 10,000 households, 35% below the U.S. rate of 61.3. Spending per restaurant is $875K, 32% above the U.S. figure of $664K. At the U.S. ratio of sit-down restaurants to household spending, the Huntingdon area would have about 86, against 65 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 629 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. The official count fell 3.7% from 2019 to 2023, against +1.5% for the U.S.
How fast is the Huntingdon, PA area growing?
Population estimates put the Huntingdon area at 43,001 people in 2025, down 2.4% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 16,341 households. Median household income in the Huntingdon area is $65,557, 19% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 26.9%, 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 Huntingdon area scores 59 for sit-down restaurants (upper middle), #172 of 538 scored small-town markets.
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