I have a model that looks like this: class Category(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=60) class Item(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=60) category = models.ForeignKey(Category) I want select count (just the count) of items for each category, so in SQL it would be as simple as this: select category_id, count(id) from item group by category_id Is there an equivalent