Industry · NAICS 722513

Limited-service restaurants

The United States has 270,088 employer establishments in limited-service restaurants (8 per 10,000 residents), employing 4,965,080 people at an average annual pay of $20,857, plus 59,535 nonemployer businesses.

In the United States

Establishments
270,088
59,535 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents
8
Paid employees
4,965,080
Average annual pay
$20,857

Places ranked by residents per establishment

Places ranked by residents per establishment: more residents for each business, fewer competitors per resident. A count, not a measure of demand: retirement areas, low incomes or tourism change what a business needs.

Places
State
Size
Limited-service restaurants by residents per establishment
#Placevs US
1Wildwood-The Villages, FL151,889612,49040.50×1,285$17,68610
2Pottsville, PA143,892592,4394.10.51×630$16,22941
3Punta Gorda, FL206,814902,2984.40.54×1,858$18,46422
4Homosassa Springs, FL166,667742,2524.40.55×1,196$17,11210
5Greeley, CO360,9711931,8705.30.67×4,380$21,08242
6Ocala, FL412,3002241,8415.40.68×4,022$19,67464
7Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL170,319931,8315.50.68×1,886$19,41024
8Holland, MI121,935681,7935.60.70×1,098$19,65711
9Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL846,1254721,7935.60.70×9,040$20,108200
10Bellingham, WA232,6201301,7895.60.70×2,394$24,47717
11Bangor, ME156,839891,7625.70.71×1,567$22,04112
12Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ124,716711,7575.70.71×1,369$19,89221
13Massena-Ogdensburg, NY106,607611,7485.70.71×1,036$20,5614
14Sebring, FL108,155621,7445.70.71×1,233$18,15920
15Merced, CA294,3191691,7425.70.72×3,687$20,64730
16Duluth, MN-WI281,4651621,7375.80.72×2,925$20,75414
17Port St. Lucie, FL541,8163121,7375.80.72×5,925$19,170107
18McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX901,0965221,7265.80.72×14,061$17,456253
19Las Cruces, NM225,9661311,7255.80.72×3,135$18,06437
20Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL824,7944821,7115.80.73×10,584$18,079174
21North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL917,5275391,7025.90.73×9,807$20,368138
22Albany, OR131,591781,6875.90.74×1,674$21,90919
23Sunbury, PA108,107651,66360.75×769$17,26823
24Jackson, MI159,607961,66360.75×1,943$17,31622
25Longview-Kelso, WA112,866681,66060.75×1,576$21,937—

1–25 of 398 places

Sources: County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024).

  • Residents per establishment is the place's population estimate for 2023 divided by its establishments; more residents per business means fewer competitors per resident. Places with fewer than the minimum establishments are left out because a handful of businesses makes the ratio jump around.
  • Metro areas are made of whole counties and their figures are the exact sums of those counties'. A metro area is listed under its principal state.
  • This compares counts of businesses with counts of residents. It does not measure demand, spending power, visitors, the size or quality of the businesses, or whether a market is open. Employment and payroll carry the Census Bureau's noise infusion.
  • County Business Patterns 2023 uses NAICS 2017 codes; the nonemployer figures use NAICS 2022. Industries are matched by name between editions.
  • Growth needs a second reference year of County Business Patterns in the same industry classification; only 2023 is loaded, so there is no growth column yet.

Federal contracts in this industry

Federal agencies obligated $47.5K on contracts under NAICS 722513 in fiscal year 2026, nationwide (3 awards, each counted once per county where it was performed).

Metro areas

  1. Colorado Springs, CO$35.7K75%
    1 award

Counties

  1. El Paso County, CO$35.7K75%
    1 award

Cities and towns

  1. Colorado Springs city, CO$35.7K75%
    1 award

Where the work was performed, as agencies report it (often the contractor's office). Metro areas are the exact sums of their counties. Cities are estimated: each action's county money split by the share of its ZIP code's land inside the city, so a city's figure is part of its county's.

USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS)