Food and drink · Small-town market · Wyoming
Sit-down restaurants in the Laramie, WY area
How the Laramie, WY 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 64 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #122 of 538 scored small-town markets
#2 of 8 scored small-town markets based in Wyoming
- Listings
- 76
- 28 chain locations (37%)
- Official establishments
- 30
- −11.8% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $59.6M
- On food away from home · $3,489 a household
- Spending per listing
- $784K
- 18% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 44.5
- 27% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 38,558
- +3.9% since 2020
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What this means
At $3,489 per household (14% below the U.S. average), households in the Laramie area spend about $59.6M a year on food away from home. Spread across 76 sit-down restaurants, that is $784K per restaurant, 18% above the U.S. figure of $664K. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only sit-down restaurants.
The Laramie area has 76 sit-down restaurants on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 37% of them, against 29% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 44.5, 27% below the U.S. rate of 61.3.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in the Laramie area was 30 in 2023, down 11.8% from 2019. That is one for every 569 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. Official counts also show 5 one-person businesses without payroll.
Population estimates show the Laramie area grew 3.9% from 2020 to 2025, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). The Groundwork market score for sit-down restaurants in the Laramie area is 64 (upper middle), #122 of 538 scored small-town markets and #2 of 8 scored small-town markets based in Wyoming. That puts it in the top quarter of small-town markets.
How the Laramie area compares
The same measures for Wyoming 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 | Laramie area | Wyoming | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 44.5 | 55.2 | 61.3 |
| Spending per listing | $784K | $691K | $664K |
| Households per official establishment | 569 | 461 | 500 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | −11.8% | −7.0% | +1.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +3.9% | +1.9% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,489 | $3,811 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $61,917 | $76,176 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 64 | 37 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 30−11.8% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 700
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $13.1M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 5Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 7628 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 90The 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 Laramie 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 Laramie area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 38,558+3.9% since 2020
- Households
- 17,083
- Median age
- 32.5
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 50%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 4,274 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 9
- Median household income
- $61,917+25.5% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $84,098
- Median home value
- $333,000
- Jobs located here
- 16,736
- Daytime population
- 38,437Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Wyoming market ranked →The highest-scoring small-town markets in Wyoming for sit-down restaurants, numbered among those based in Wyoming, with the Laramie area marked.
Top small-town markets in Wyoming
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Gillette, WY | 67 | 91 | 50.6 | $813K | +2.1% | #94 of 538 |
| 2Laramie, WY | 64 | 76 | 44.5 | $784K | +3.9% | #122 of 538 |
| 3Cody, WY | 51 | 80 | 60.0 | $616K | +5.1% | #261 of 538 |
| 4Rock Springs, WY | 48 | 93 | 53.1 | $714K | −2.2% | #287 of 538 |
| 5Sheridan, WY | 48 | 83 | 59.9 | $607K | +7.2% | #295 of 538 |
| 6Evanston, WY-UT | 42 | 65 | 75.2 | $506K | +2.0% | #357 of 538 |
| 7Riverton, WY | 40 | 83 | 55.2 | $629K | +0.7% | #375 of 538 |
| 8Jackson, WY-ID | 39 | 169 | 116.5 | $434K | +4.2% | #392 of 538 |
Other business types in the Laramie area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes57
- Sit-down restaurants64
- Fast food and sandwich shops49
- Pizza72
- Coffee shops and cafes38
- Bakeries and dessert shops61
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Questions
How many sit-down restaurants are in the Laramie, WY area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 76 sit-down restaurants in the Laramie area. 28 of them (37%) are chain locations. The listings count restaurants of every cuisine, pizza included. Official counts show 30 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in 2023, down 11.8% from 2019. Another 5 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.
How much do households in the Laramie, WY area spend on food away from home?
About $59.6M a year, or $3,489 per household. That is 14% below the U.S. average (an index of 86, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 76 sit-down restaurants on map listings, it comes to $784K 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 17,083 households in the Laramie area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Laramie, WY area compare with the U.S. for sit-down restaurants?
The Laramie area has 44.5 sit-down restaurants per 10,000 households, 27% below the U.S. rate of 61.3. Spending per restaurant is $784K, 18% above the U.S. figure of $664K. At the U.S. ratio of sit-down restaurants to household spending, the Laramie area would have about 90, against 76 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 569 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. The official count fell 11.8% from 2019 to 2023, against +1.5% for the U.S.
How fast is the Laramie, WY area growing?
Population estimates put the Laramie area at 38,558 people in 2025, up 3.9% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 17,083 households. Median household income in the Laramie area is $61,917, 23% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 25.5%, 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 Laramie area scores 64 for sit-down restaurants (upper middle), #122 of 538 scored small-town markets.
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