Food and drink · Small-town market · Texas
Sit-down restaurants in the Jacksonville, TX area
The sit-down restaurants in the Jacksonville, TX area, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other small-town markets.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 63 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #138 of 538 scored small-town markets
#5 of 41 scored small-town markets based in Texas
- Listings
- 94
- 27 chain locations (29%)
- Official establishments
- 24
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $61.8M
- On food away from home · $3,396 a household
- Spending per listing
- $657K
- In line with the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 51.7
- 16% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 53,337
- +5.4% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 94 sit-down restaurants in the Jacksonville area. Chain locations make up 29% of them, against 29% across the U.S. That comes to 51.7 for every 10,000 households, 16% below the U.S. rate of 61.3.
Household spending on food away from home in the Jacksonville area comes to about $61.8M a year: $3,396 per household, 17% below the U.S. average. That works out to $657K per restaurant, in line with the U.S. figure of $664K. That spending covers all food away from home, which sit-down restaurants share with other businesses in the trade.
Official counts show 24 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in the Jacksonville area in 2023. That is one for every 758 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. Another 11 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.
Population estimates put the population change in the Jacksonville area from 2020 to 2025 at +5.4%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). For sit-down restaurants, the Jacksonville area has a Groundwork market score of 63 (upper middle): #138 of 538 scored small-town markets and #5 of 41 scored small-town markets based in Texas.
How the Jacksonville 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 | Jacksonville area | Texas | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 51.7 | 69.0 | 61.3 |
| Spending per listing | $657K | $575K | $664K |
| Households per official establishment | 758 | 528 | 500 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +9.9% | +1.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +5.4% | +8.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,396 | $3,970 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $61,261 | $78,476 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 63 | 46 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 24
- Employees, 2023
- 272
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $5.5M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 11Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 9427 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 93The 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 Jacksonville 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 Jacksonville area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 53,337+5.4% since 2020
- Households
- 18,185
- Median age
- 39.4
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 74%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 1,053 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 49
- Median household income
- $61,261+27.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $81,667
- Median home value
- $169,300
- Jobs located here
- 14,759
- Daytime population
- 45,430Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Texas market ranked →The highest-scoring small-town markets in Texas for sit-down restaurants, numbered among those based in Texas, with the Jacksonville area marked.
Top small-town markets in Texas
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Bonham, TX | 80 | 64 | 50.1 | $738K | +9.2% | #19 of 538 |
| 2Granbury, TX | 74 | 134 | 52.5 | $776K | +13.6% | #52 of 538 |
| 3Andrews, TX | 69 | 38 | 55.5 | $690K | +1.6% | #83 of 538 |
| 4Corsicana, TX | 64 | 108 | 56.7 | $607K | +8.2% | #128 of 538 |
| 5Jacksonville, TX | 63 | 94 | 51.7 | $657K | +5.4% | #138 of 538 |
| 6Paris, TX | 56 | 119 | 47.6 | $702K | +2.6% | #209 of 538 |
| 7Lufkin, TX | 53 | 175 | 54.2 | $615K | +1.9% | #242 of 538 |
| 8Gainesville, TX | 53 | 105 | 63.5 | $605K | +6.5% | #243 of 538 |
| 9Huntsville, TX | 51 | 130 | 50.0 | $618K | +9.5% | #260 of 538 |
| 10Kerrville, TX | 49 | 126 | 55.7 | $657K | +2.5% | #274 of 538 |
Other business types in the Jacksonville area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes66
- Sit-down restaurants63
- Fast food and sandwich shops59
- Pizza78
- Coffee shops and cafes53
- Bakeries and dessert shops44
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Questions
How many sit-down restaurants are in the Jacksonville, TX area?
There are 94 sit-down restaurants on map listings in the Jacksonville area as of September 2026. 27 of them (29%) are chain locations. The listings count restaurants of every cuisine, pizza included. Official counts show 24 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in 2023. Official counts list 11 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in the Jacksonville, TX area spend on food away from home?
About $61.8M a year, or $3,396 per household. That is 17% below the U.S. average (an index of 83, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 94 sit-down restaurants on map listings, it comes to $657K per restaurant. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only sit-down restaurants. It is estimated from the incomes of the 18,185 households in the Jacksonville area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Jacksonville, TX area compare with the U.S. for sit-down restaurants?
The Jacksonville area has 51.7 sit-down restaurants per 10,000 households, 16% below the U.S. rate of 61.3. Spending per restaurant is $657K, in line with the U.S. figure of $664K. At the national ratio of sit-down restaurants to household spending, the Jacksonville area would have about 93, against 94 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 758 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S.
How fast is the Jacksonville, TX area growing?
Population estimates put the Jacksonville area at 53,337 people in 2025, up 5.4% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 18,185 households. The median household income in the Jacksonville area is $61,261 a year, 24% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 27.1% from the 2015–2019 survey, 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 Jacksonville area scores 63 for sit-down restaurants (upper middle), #138 of 538 scored small-town markets.
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