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Sit-down restaurants in Refugio County, TX
Competitor counts, household spending and official business counts for sit-down restaurants in Refugio County, TX, set against other counties and the U.S.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
- Listings
- 19
- 7 chain locations (37%)
- Official establishments
- 7
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $7.7M
- On food away from home · $3,086 a household
- Spending per listing
- $405K
- 39% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 76.2
- 24% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 6,657
- −1.3% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 19 sit-down restaurants in Refugio County. Of those, 7 are chain locations, or 37%, against 29% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 76.2, 24% above the U.S. rate of 61.3.
At $3,086 per household (24% below the U.S. average), households in Refugio County spend about $7.7M a year on food away from home. Spread across 19 sit-down restaurants, that is $405K per restaurant, 39% below 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 7 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in Refugio County in 2023. That is one for every 356 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Refugio County declined 1.3%, against +3.1% for the U.S. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t given a market score, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
How Refugio County 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 | Refugio County | Texas | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 76.2 | 69.0 | 61.3 |
| Spending per listing | $405K | $575K | $664K |
| Households per official establishment | 356 | 528 | 500 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +9.9% | +1.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −1.3% | +8.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,086 | $3,970 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $60,181 | $78,476 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 46 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 6 → 7
- Employees, 2023
- 57
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $1.1M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 197 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 12The 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 Refugio County, 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 Refugio County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 6,657−1.3% since 2020
- Households
- 2,495
- Median age
- 43.3
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 77%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.7
- Land area
- 771 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 9
- Median household income
- $60,181
- Average household income
- $68,904
- Median home value
- $99,000
- Jobs located here
- 2,031
- Daytime population
- 6,021Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Texas
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Guadalupe County, TX | 88 | 263 | 40.2 | $1M | +15.8% | #44 of 2,405 |
| 2Wilson County, TX | 86 | 79 | 43.4 | $975K | +12.2% | #58 of 2,405 |
| 3San Jacinto County, TX | 83 | 26 | 23.9 | $1.4M | +7.1% | #82 of 2,405 |
| 4Johnson County, TX | 83 | 300 | 45.8 | $878K | +20.5% | #89 of 2,405 |
| 5Parker County, TX | 82 | 274 | 48.5 | $938K | +23.5% | #98 of 2,405 |
| 6Clay County, TX | 81 | 16 | 37.3 | $1M | +5.0% | #116 of 2,405 |
| 7Randall County, TX | 81 | 227 | 40.0 | $993K | +7.9% | #118 of 2,405 |
| 8Wise County, TX | 80 | 128 | 50.9 | $828K | +21.5% | #132 of 2,405 |
| 9Kaufman County, TX | 79 | 266 | 52.2 | $788K | +42.2% | #154 of 2,405 |
| 10Hardin County, TX | 78 | 92 | 41.4 | $926K | +4.2% | #175 of 2,405 |
| Refugio County, TX | Not scored | 19 | 76.2 | $405K | −1.3% |
Other business types in Refugio County
None has a Groundwork market score here. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
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Questions
How many sit-down restaurants are in Refugio County, TX?
There are 19 sit-down restaurants on map listings in Refugio County as of September 2026. 7 of them (37%) are chain locations. The listings count restaurants of every cuisine, pizza included. Official counts show 7 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in 2023.
How much do households in Refugio County, TX spend on food away from home?
About $7.7M a year, or $3,086 per household. That is 24% below the U.S. average (an index of 76, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 19 sit-down restaurants on map listings, it comes to $405K per restaurant. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only sit-down restaurants. It is estimated from the incomes of the 2,495 households in Refugio County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Refugio County, TX compare with the U.S. for sit-down restaurants?
Refugio County has 76.2 sit-down restaurants per 10,000 households, 24% above the U.S. rate of 61.3. Spending per restaurant is $405K, 39% below the U.S. figure of $664K. At the national ratio of sit-down restaurants to household spending, Refugio County would have about 12, against 19 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 356 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S.
How fast is Refugio County, TX growing?
Population estimates put Refugio County at 6,657 people in 2025, down 1.3% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 2,495 households. The median household income in Refugio County is $60,181 a year, 25% below the U.S. median of $80,734.
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 score leaves out counties under 10,000 people, where a handful of businesses would swing it.
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