Food and drink · Metro area · Texas
Sit-down restaurants in the Eagle Pass, TX metro area
The sit-down restaurants in the Eagle Pass, TX metro area, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other metro areas.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 34 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #319 of 387 scored metro areas
#18 of 26 scored metro areas based in Texas
- Listings
- 149
- 38 chain locations (26%)
- Official establishments
- 18
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $54.9M
- On food away from home · $3,035 a household
- Spending per listing
- $368K
- 45% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 82.4
- 34% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 58,823
- +1.7% since 2020
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What this means
The Eagle Pass metro area scores 34 (lower middle) on the Groundwork market score for sit-down restaurants, ranking #319 of 387 scored metro areas and #18 of 26 scored metro areas based in Texas. That puts it in the bottom quarter of metro areas.
Households in the Eagle Pass metro area spend about $54.9M a year on food away from home, or $3,035 per household, 25% below the U.S. average. That is about $368K of household spending for each restaurant on map listings, 45% below the U.S. figure of $664K. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only sit-down restaurants.
There are 149 sit-down restaurants on map listings in the Eagle Pass metro area as of September 2026. Of those, 38 are chain locations, or 26%, against 29% across the U.S. That is 82.4 per 10,000 households, 34% above the U.S. rate of 61.3.
Official counts show 18 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in the Eagle Pass metro area in 2023. That is one for every 1,004 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Eagle Pass metro area grew 1.7%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How the Eagle Pass metro area compares
The same measures for Texas 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 | Eagle Pass metro area | Texas | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 82.4 | 69.0 | 61.3 |
| Spending per listing | $368K | $575K | $664K |
| Households per official establishment | 1,004 | 528 | 500 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +9.9% | +1.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +1.7% | +8.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,035 | $3,970 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $49,568 | $78,476 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 34 | 46 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 18
- Employees, 2023
- 294
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $6.4M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 35Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 14938 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 83The 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 Eagle Pass 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 Eagle Pass metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 58,823+1.7% since 2020
- Households
- 18,080
- Median age
- 30.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 71%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 1,280 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 45
- Median household income
- $49,568+25.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $64,509
- Median home value
- $158,700
- Jobs located here
- 16,329
- Daytime population
- 51,575Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top metro areas in Texas
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX | 65 | 6,730 | 68.0 | $669K | +14.0% | #84 of 387 |
| 2Sherman-Denison, TX | 56 | 360 | 65.2 | $571K | +12.8% | #142 of 387 |
| 3Midland, TX | 55 | 459 | 65.9 | $660K | +9.8% | #148 of 387 |
| 4Killeen-Temple, TX | 55 | 958 | 53.9 | $657K | +7.2% | #149 of 387 |
| 5Wichita Falls, TX | 52 | 282 | 49.7 | $705K | +0.7% | #171 of 387 |
| 6Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX | 51 | 20,183 | 69.8 | $614K | +10.6% | #183 of 387 |
| 7Odessa, TX | 51 | 393 | 60.9 | $607K | +5.0% | #184 of 387 |
| 8Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX | 47 | 18,794 | 70.6 | $582K | +10.3% | #218 of 387 |
| 9Lubbock, TX | 45 | 786 | 55.9 | $630K | +4.6% | #233 of 387 |
| 10San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX | 44 | 6,545 | 67.6 | $572K | +9.5% | #241 of 387 |
| 18Eagle Pass, TX | 34 | 149 | 82.4 | $368K | +1.7% | #319 of 387 |
Other business types in the Eagle Pass metro area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes33
- Sit-down restaurants34
- Fast food and sandwich shops25
- Pizza57
- Coffee shops and cafes47
- Bakeries and dessert shops18
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Questions
How many sit-down restaurants are in the Eagle Pass, TX metro area?
As of September 2026, map listings count 149 sit-down restaurants in the Eagle Pass metro area. 38 of them (26%) are chain locations. The listings count restaurants of every cuisine, pizza included. Official counts show 18 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in 2023. Official counts also show 35 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in the Eagle Pass, TX metro area spend on food away from home?
About $54.9M a year, or $3,035 per household. That is 25% below the U.S. average (an index of 75, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 149 sit-down restaurants on map listings, it comes to $368K 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 18,080 households in the Eagle Pass metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Eagle Pass, TX metro area compare with the U.S. for sit-down restaurants?
The Eagle Pass metro area has 82.4 sit-down restaurants per 10,000 households, 34% above the U.S. rate of 61.3. Spending per restaurant is $368K, 45% below the U.S. figure of $664K. At the U.S. ratio of sit-down restaurants to household spending, the Eagle Pass metro area would have about 83, against 149 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,004 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S.
How fast is the Eagle Pass, TX metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Eagle Pass metro area at 58,823 people in 2025, up 1.7% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 18,080 households. Median household income in the Eagle Pass metro area is $49,568, 39% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 25.1%, 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 Eagle Pass metro area scores 34 for sit-down restaurants (lower middle), #319 of 387 scored metro areas.
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