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Sit-down restaurants in the Clarksville, TN-KY metro area

How the Clarksville, TN-KY 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 52 out of 100: Upper middle

Ranked #173 of 387 scored metro areas
#4 of 10 scored metro areas based in Tennessee

Listings
640
260 chain locations (41%)
Official establishments
214
+9.2% since 2019
Household spending a year
$439.7M
On food away from home · $3,521 a household
Spending per listing
$687K
4% above the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
51.3
16% below the U.S.
Population, 2025
349,001
+8.5% since 2020

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Survey estimates 2020–2024 · population estimates 2025 · official business counts 2023 · map listings September 2026 · Data credits · How we measure

What this means

Household spending on food away from home in the Clarksville metro area comes to about $439.7M a year: $3,521 per household, 13% below the U.S. average. Spread across 640 sit-down restaurants, that is $687K per restaurant, 4% above the U.S. figure of $664K. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only sit-down restaurants.

There are 640 sit-down restaurants on map listings in the Clarksville metro area as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 41% of them, against 29% across the U.S. That comes to 51.3 for every 10,000 households, 16% below the U.S. rate of 61.3.

The official count of businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in the Clarksville metro area was 214 in 2023, up 9.2% from 2019. That is one for every 583 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. Official counts list 49 one-person businesses without payroll. Since fiscal 2022, 8 SBA-backed loans worth $3.3M have gone to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in the Clarksville metro area.

Population estimates put the population change in the Clarksville metro area from 2020 to 2025 at +8.5%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). The Groundwork market score for sit-down restaurants in the Clarksville metro area is 52 (upper middle), #173 of 387 scored metro areas and #4 of 10 scored metro areas based in Tennessee.

How the Clarksville metro area compares

The same measures for Tennessee 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.

Sit-down restaurants in Clarksville, TN-KY metro area compared with Tennessee and the U.S.
MeasureClarksville metro areaTennesseeU.S.
Listings per 10k households51.359.361.3
Spending per listing$687K$618K$664K
Households per official establishment583569500
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023+9.2%+4.3%+1.5%
Population growth, 2020–2025+8.5%+5.6%+3.1%
Spending per household on food away from home$3,521$3,670$4,070
Median household income$68,967$69,595$80,734
Groundwork market score5249

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
214+9.2% over the period
Employees, 2023
4,453
Annual payroll, 2023
$100.6M
One-person businesses, 2023
49Businesses with no payroll
Map listings, September 2026
640260 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
663The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here

SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022

Loans
8
Amount
$3.3M

SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in the Clarksville 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 Clarksville metro area

Population, 2025 estimate
349,001+8.5% since 2020
Households
124,867
Median age
34.2
Homes lived in by their owners
61%
Vehicles per household
1.9
Land area
2,158 sq. mi.
People per square mile
155
Median household income
$68,967+30.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$85,173
Median home value
$253,300
Jobs located here
93,447
Daytime population
310,494Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Sit-down restaurants across Tennessee

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The highest-scoring metro areas in Tennessee for sit-down restaurants, numbered among those based in Tennessee, with the Clarksville metro area marked.

Top metro areas in Tennessee

Metro areas in Tennessee ranked for sit-down restaurants by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1Knoxville, TN681,87249.5$752K+6.9%#60 of 387
2Morristown, TN6521244.2$754K+7.9%#82 of 387
3Cleveland, TN6323246.4$742K+6.1%#95 of 387
4Clarksville, TN-KY5264051.3$687K+8.5%#173 of 387
5Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA4660746.4$712K+2.3%#220 of 387
6Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin, TN465,74369.3$595K+8.7%#225 of 387
7Chattanooga, TN-GA441,37459.4$630K+5.3%#238 of 387
8Johnson City, TN3945951.6$640K+4.3%#281 of 387
9Jackson, TN3741357.0$582K+2.2%#292 of 387
10Memphis, TN-MS-AR323,36264.3$565K−0.3%#331 of 387

Other business types in the Clarksville metro area

Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.

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Questions

How many sit-down restaurants are in the Clarksville, TN-KY metro area?

As of September 2026, map listings count 640 sit-down restaurants in the Clarksville metro area. 260 of them (41%) are chain locations. The listings count restaurants of every cuisine, pizza included. Official counts show 214 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in 2023, up 9.2% from 2019. Official counts also show 49 one-person businesses without payroll.

How much do households in the Clarksville, TN-KY metro area spend on food away from home?

About $439.7M a year, or $3,521 per household. That is 13% below the U.S. average (an index of 87, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 640 sit-down restaurants on map listings, it comes to $687K 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 124,867 households in the Clarksville metro area and national spending patterns by income.

How does the Clarksville, TN-KY metro area compare with the U.S. for sit-down restaurants?

The Clarksville metro area has 51.3 sit-down restaurants per 10,000 households, 16% below the U.S. rate of 61.3. Spending per restaurant is $687K, 4% above the U.S. figure of $664K. At the U.S. ratio of sit-down restaurants to household spending, the Clarksville metro area would have about 663, against 640 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 583 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. The official count rose 9.2% from 2019 to 2023, against +1.5% for the U.S.

How fast is the Clarksville, TN-KY metro area growing?

Population estimates put the Clarksville metro area at 349,001 people in 2025, up 8.5% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 124,867 households. Median household income in the Clarksville metro area is $68,967, 15% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 30.1%, 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 Clarksville metro area scores 52 for sit-down restaurants (upper middle), #173 of 387 scored metro areas.

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