Will this location work?

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RENT CEILING: $19,341/month

Based on what the average restaurant in this county earns, $19,341/month is the most rent this location can carry. Add the asking rent to get a direct verdict. 28 competitors found nearby.

Restaurant · Jackson County, Missouri, United States · generated 2026-08-16 00:21 UTC

The economics

What the average operator here does
Establishments in county measured	569
Employees each measured	26.9
Annual payroll each measured	$742,682
Implied annual revenue assumed ratio	$2,320,881
Rent this area can carry assumed ratio	$19,341/mo

US Census County Business Patterns 2023, NAICS 722511

Is this category growing here?

Restaurants held roughly steady from 599 in 2019 to 569 in 2023 (-5%).

Direction: stable · US Census County Business Patterns, an official annual count of establishments.

Who you would be competing with

28 restaurants within 1.6 km.

54th Street Grill & Bar Smokehouse BBQ Chuck E. Cheese Thai Spice Jerusalem Cafe Chick-in Waffle Buffalo Wild Wings Hooters Jazz A Louisiana Kitchen (Independence, MO) bd's Mongolian Grill Shawarmar Outback Steakhouse IHOP Carrabba's Italian Grill Kobe Japanese Steak House Red Robin On The Border Twin Peaks Hereford House Perkins Los Cabos Mexican Grill and Cantina Corner Cafe Pizza Ranch Cheddar's

Source: OpenStreetMap tag database (Overpass). Coverage is community-maintained and thinner than Google Maps — treat this as a floor on the real count, not a census of it.

Who lives here

Tract population	1,138
Median household income	$27,906
Median age	67.1
Households	788

US Census ACS 5-Year 2022, tract level

What this report cannot tell you

Revenue is inferred from payroll using a 32% labour-cost assumption (full-service restaurants); it is not measured revenue.
Figures describe the average existing operator in Jackson County (2023 data, 569 establishments) — not a specific unit.
Nobody has walked this street. Visibility, the state of the unit, parking, which side of the road gets the morning sun — all of it decides outcomes and none of it is in this data.
Census business data runs about two years behind. It answers whether this market is structurally healthy, not what opened last month.