Food and drink · Small-town market · Texas
Sit-down restaurants in the Stephenville, TX area
How the Stephenville, TX 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 40 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #378 of 538 scored small-town markets
#16 of 41 scored small-town markets based in Texas
- Listings
- 108
- 37 chain locations (34%)
- Official establishments
- 34
- +9.7% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $58.7M
- On food away from home · $3,491 a household
- Spending per listing
- $544K
- 18% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 64.2
- 5% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 43,911
- +2.8% since 2020
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What this means
Household spending on food away from home in the Stephenville area comes to about $58.7M a year: $3,491 per household, 14% below the U.S. average. That works out to $544K per restaurant, 18% below the U.S. figure of $664K. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only sit-down restaurants.
The Stephenville area has 108 sit-down restaurants on map listings as of September 2026. Of those, 37 are chain locations, or 34%, against 29% across the U.S. That comes to 64.2 for every 10,000 households, 5% above the U.S. rate of 61.3.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in the Stephenville area was 34 in 2023, up 9.7% from 2019. That is one for every 495 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. Official counts also show 10 one-person businesses without payroll. Since fiscal 2022, 2 SBA-backed loans worth $1.4M have gone to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in the Stephenville area.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Stephenville area grew 2.8%, in step with the U.S. (+3.1%). The Groundwork market score for sit-down restaurants in the Stephenville area is 40 (lower middle), #378 of 538 scored small-town markets and #16 of 41 scored small-town markets based in Texas.
How the Stephenville 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 | Stephenville area | Texas | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 64.2 | 69.0 | 61.3 |
| Spending per listing | $544K | $575K | $664K |
| Households per official establishment | 495 | 528 | 500 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +9.7% | +9.9% | +1.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +2.8% | +8.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,491 | $3,970 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $65,115 | $78,476 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 40 | 46 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 34+9.7% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 606
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $11.7M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 10Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 10837 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 89The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 2
- Amount
- $1.4M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in the Stephenville 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 Stephenville area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 43,911+2.8% since 2020
- Households
- 16,816
- Median age
- 35.0
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 63%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 1,083 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 40
- Median household income
- $65,115+23.5% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $85,669
- Median home value
- $269,100
- Jobs located here
- 17,708
- Daytime population
- 40,954Residents 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 Stephenville 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 |
| 16Stephenville, TX | 40 | 108 | 64.2 | $544K | +2.8% | #378 of 538 |
Other business types in the Stephenville area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes36
- Sit-down restaurants40
- Fast food and sandwich shops41
- Pizza53
- Coffee shops and cafes41
- Bakeries and dessert shops33
Groceries and convenience
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Questions
How many sit-down restaurants are in the Stephenville, TX area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 108 sit-down restaurants in the Stephenville area. 37 of them (34%) are chain locations. The listings count restaurants of every cuisine, pizza included. Official counts show 34 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in 2023, up 9.7% from 2019. Another 10 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.
How much do households in the Stephenville, TX area spend on food away from home?
About $58.7M a year, or $3,491 per household. That is 14% below the U.S. average (an index of 86, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 108 sit-down restaurants on map listings, it comes to $544K 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 16,816 households in the Stephenville area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Stephenville, TX area compare with the U.S. for sit-down restaurants?
The Stephenville area has 64.2 sit-down restaurants per 10,000 households, 5% above the U.S. rate of 61.3. Spending per restaurant is $544K, 18% below the U.S. figure of $664K. At the U.S. ratio of sit-down restaurants to household spending, the Stephenville area would have about 89, against 108 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 495 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. The official count rose 9.7% from 2019 to 2023, against +1.5% for the U.S.
How fast is the Stephenville, TX area growing?
Population estimates put the Stephenville area at 43,911 people in 2025, up 2.8% since 2020, in step with the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 16,816 households. Median household income in the Stephenville area is $65,115, 19% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 23.5%, 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 Stephenville area scores 40 for sit-down restaurants (lower middle), #378 of 538 scored small-town markets.
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