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Sit-down restaurants in Grand Isle County, VT
How Grand Isle County, VT compares with other counties and the U.S. for sit-down restaurants: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
- Listings
- 12
- 1 chain location (8%)
- Official establishments
- 5
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $14.2M
- On food away from home · $4,512 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.2M
- 78% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 38.2
- 38% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 7,511
- +3.2% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 12 sit-down restaurants in Grand Isle County. One of them (8%) is a chain location, against 29% across the U.S. That is 38.2 per 10,000 households, 38% below the U.S. rate of 61.3.
At $4,512 per household (11% above the U.S. average), households in Grand Isle County spend about $14.2M a year on food away from home. Spread across 12 sit-down restaurants, that is $1.2M per restaurant, 78% above 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.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in Grand Isle County was 5 in 2023. That is one for every 628 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $10K has gone to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in Grand Isle County.
Population estimates put the population change in Grand Isle County from 2020 to 2025 at +3.2%, in step with the U.S. (+3.1%). Counties under 10,000 people aren’t given a market score, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
How Grand Isle County compares
The same measures for Vermont 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 | Grand Isle County | Vermont | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 38.2 | 54.3 | 61.3 |
| Spending per listing | $1.2M | $739K | $664K |
| Households per official establishment | 628 | 460 | 500 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | −8.9% | +1.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +3.2% | +0.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $4,512 | $4,013 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $97,396 | $81,203 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 45 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 5 → 5
- Employees, 2023
- 28
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $848K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 121 chain location
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 21The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $10K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in Grand Isle 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 Grand Isle County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 7,511+3.2% since 2020
- Households
- 3,140
- Median age
- 49.5
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 90%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 82 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 91
- Median household income
- $97,396
- Average household income
- $130,172
- Median home value
- $394,100
- Jobs located here
- 1,075
- Daytime population
- 4,985Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Vermont
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Orange County, VT | 81 | 35 | 27.5 | $1.4M | +2.4% | #104 of 2,405 |
| 2Franklin County, VT | 76 | 67 | 33.6 | $1.2M | +2.3% | #218 of 2,405 |
| 3Addison County, VT | 74 | 51 | 34.1 | $1.2M | +1.8% | #260 of 2,405 |
| 4Caledonia County, VT | 57 | 54 | 41.2 | $887K | +0.8% | #851 of 2,405 |
| 5Orleans County, VT | 53 | 51 | 42.2 | $862K | +0.7% | #1,025 of 2,405 |
| 6Chittenden County, VT | 50 | 425 | 59.5 | $740K | +0.4% | #1,167 of 2,405 |
| 7Washington County, VT | 49 | 139 | 53.8 | $750K | −0.2% | #1,219 of 2,405 |
| 8Windsor County, VT | 43 | 139 | 55.0 | $730K | −0.7% | #1,485 of 2,405 |
| 9Bennington County, VT | 28 | 99 | 66.1 | $584K | −1.8% | #2,108 of 2,405 |
| 10Lamoille County, VT | 28 | 101 | 84.7 | $462K | +1.4% | #2,133 of 2,405 |
| Grand Isle County, VT | Not scored | 12 | 38.2 | $1.2M | +3.2% |
Other business types in Grand Isle 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 Grand Isle County, VT?
There are 12 sit-down restaurants on map listings in Grand Isle County as of September 2026. One of them (8%) is a chain location. The listings count restaurants of every cuisine, pizza included. Official counts show 5 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in 2023.
How much do households in Grand Isle County, VT spend on food away from home?
About $14.2M a year, or $4,512 per household. That is 11% above the U.S. average (an index of 111, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 12 sit-down restaurants on map listings, it comes to $1.2M per restaurant. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only sit-down restaurants. It is estimated from the incomes of the 3,140 households in Grand Isle County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Grand Isle County, VT compare with the U.S. for sit-down restaurants?
Grand Isle County has 38.2 sit-down restaurants per 10,000 households, 38% below the U.S. rate of 61.3. Spending per restaurant is $1.2M, 78% above the U.S. figure of $664K. At the national ratio of sit-down restaurants to household spending, Grand Isle County would have about 21, against 12 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 628 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S.
How fast is Grand Isle County, VT growing?
Population estimates put Grand Isle County at 7,511 people in 2025, up 3.2% since 2020, in step with the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 3,140 households. The median household income in Grand Isle County is $97,396 a year, 21% above 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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