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Top markets for coffee shops and cafes
Every U.S. metro area, small-town market and county, ranked by the Groundwork market score for coffee shops and cafes. The score weighs household spending per cafe, households per business, population growth and spending power.
- Listings in the U.S.
- 142,001
- 55,918 chain locations (39%)
- Official establishments
- 85,140
- All snack and nonalcoholic beverage bars · +24.3% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $525.9B
- On food away from home
- Listings per 10k households
- 11.0
- Spending per listing: $3.7M
A site report maps the coffee shops and cafes on map listings around the address by name and distance, and the spending within reach.
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What this means
The U.S. has 142,001 coffee shops and cafes on map listings as of September 2026. 55,918 of them (39%) are chain locations. That is 11.0 per 10,000 households.
Households in the U.S. spend about $525.9B a year on food away from home, or $4,070 per household. Spread across 142,001 coffee shops and cafes, that is $3.7M per cafe. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only coffee shops and cafes.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as snack and nonalcoholic beverage bars in the U.S. was 85,140 in 2023, up 24.3% from 2019. That count covers all snack and nonalcoholic beverage bars (bakeries and dessert shops included), not only coffee shops and cafes. They employ 985,583 people, with $20.9B in annual payroll. Official counts list 18,429 one-person businesses without payroll.
The Wildwood-The Villages, FL metro area has the highest market score for coffee shops and cafes among 387 scored metro areas, at 89. In the 10 highest-scoring metro areas, the median spending per cafe is 57% above the U.S. figure, and the median rate of listings per household is 38% below the U.S. rate.
Top markets
These tables (CSV)Ranked by the Groundwork market score, which weighs household spending per competitor, households per business with payroll, population growth and spending power against every other market of the same kind. How the score works.
Top metro areas of 1 million people or more
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2Richmond, VA | 86 | 422 | 7.9 | $5.3M | +5.5% |
| 19Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV | 77 | 2,320 | 9.8 | $5.3M | +3.3% |
| 20Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN | 77 | 703 | 8.3 | $4.9M | +5.4% |
| 25Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD | 75 | 869 | 7.8 | $5.8M | +0.4% |
| 30Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC | 74 | 937 | 8.7 | $4.7M | +10.1% |
| 38Columbus, OH | 71 | 827 | 9.6 | $4.4M | +4.7% |
| 39Raleigh-Cary, NC | 71 | 596 | 10.4 | $4.3M | +12.6% |
| 41Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN | 70 | 750 | 8.3 | $5M | +2.7% |
| 46St. Louis, MO-IL | 69 | 952 | 8.2 | $5M | −0.2% |
| 55Birmingham, AL | 68 | 345 | 7.4 | $5.1M | +1.4% |
| 56Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI | 68 | 1,514 | 10.2 | $4.5M | +2.6% |
| 64Jacksonville, FL | 67 | 631 | 9.5 | $4.2M | +10.7% |
| 71Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN | 66 | 469 | 8.4 | $4.5M | +2.9% |
| 72Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA | 66 | 2,280 | 9.9 | $4.3M | +5.9% |
| 78Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC | 65 | 615 | 8.7 | $4.6M | +0.9% |
Top 50 metro areas
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Wildwood-The Villages, FL | 89 | 36 | 5.1 | $7.3M | +21.1% |
| 2Richmond, VA | 86 | 422 | 7.9 | $5.3M | +5.5% |
| 3Lexington Park, MD | 85 | 44 | 5.8 | $8.7M | +2.1% |
| 4Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV | 84 | 78 | 6.6 | $5.8M | +7.1% |
| 5Columbus, IN | 83 | 23 | 6.9 | $5.8M | +4.3% |
| 6Winchester, VA-WV | 83 | 45 | 8.1 | $5M | +6.5% |
| 7York-Hanover, PA | 82 | 126 | 6.9 | $5.8M | +3.6% |
| 8Logan, UT-ID | 80 | 31 | 6.3 | $6.3M | +8.8% |
| 9Punta Gorda, FL | 80 | 63 | 7.0 | $5.2M | +15.5% |
| 10Hinesville, GA | 79 | 14 | 4.6 | $7M | +12.6% |
| 11Ocala, FL | 79 | 95 | 5.8 | $5.8M | +17.3% |
| 12Dover, DE | 79 | 47 | 6.6 | $5.6M | +6.8% |
| 13Chambersburg, PA | 79 | 44 | 6.9 | $5.5M | +3.0% |
| 14Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL | 79 | 201 | 6.9 | $5M | +19.8% |
| 15Warner Robins, GA | 78 | 43 | 5.8 | $6.6M | +8.2% |
| 16Monroe, MI | 78 | 39 | 6.2 | $6.4M | +0.7% |
| 17Homosassa Springs, FL | 78 | 37 | 5.2 | $6.3M | +11.1% |
| 18Reading, PA | 77 | 120 | 7.4 | $5.4M | +2.7% |
| 19Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV | 77 | 2,320 | 9.8 | $5.3M | +3.3% |
| 20Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN | 77 | 703 | 8.3 | $4.9M | +5.4% |
| 21Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC | 76 | 156 | 6.7 | $5.4M | +4.7% |
| 22Columbia, SC | 76 | 248 | 7.3 | $5M | +6.0% |
| 23Port St. Lucie, FL | 76 | 161 | 7.8 | $4.8M | +16.0% |
| 24Racine-Mount Pleasant, WI | 75 | 47 | 5.8 | $6.8M | +0.4% |
| 25Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD | 75 | 869 | 7.8 | $5.8M | +0.4% |
| 26Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ | 75 | 262 | 7.7 | $5.3M | +3.0% |
| 27Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA | 75 | 207 | 8.4 | $4.8M | +4.2% |
| 28Gettysburg, PA | 74 | 24 | 5.9 | $6.8M | +3.6% |
| 29Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT | 74 | 180 | 8.7 | $5.2M | +14.5% |
| 30Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC | 74 | 937 | 8.7 | $4.7M | +10.1% |
| 31Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL | 74 | 58 | 8.2 | $4.7M | +7.7% |
| 32Durham-Chapel Hill, NC | 74 | 238 | 9.6 | $4.4M | +7.5% |
| 33Vineland, NJ | 72 | 25 | 4.6 | $7.8M | +2.2% |
| 34Oshkosh-Neenah, WI | 72 | 54 | 7.4 | $5.1M | +1.4% |
| 35Ogden, UT | 72 | 185 | 8.7 | $5.1M | +5.3% |
| 36Kenosha, WI | 71 | 55 | 8.0 | $5.1M | −0.4% |
| 37Spartanburg, SC | 71 | 109 | 7.6 | $4.5M | +14.3% |
| 38Columbus, OH | 71 | 827 | 9.6 | $4.4M | +4.7% |
| 39Raleigh-Cary, NC | 71 | 596 | 10.4 | $4.3M | +12.6% |
| 40Huntsville, AL | 71 | 211 | 10.2 | $4M | +12.5% |
| 41Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN | 70 | 750 | 8.3 | $5M | +2.7% |
| 42Winston-Salem, NC | 70 | 212 | 7.5 | $4.7M | +5.3% |
| 43Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL | 70 | 304 | 9.3 | $4.1M | +14.4% |
| 44Macon-Bibb County, GA | 69 | 53 | 6.0 | $5.7M | +2.1% |
| 45Tuscaloosa, AL | 69 | 68 | 6.4 | $5.4M | +2.9% |
| 46St. Louis, MO-IL | 69 | 952 | 8.2 | $5M | −0.2% |
| 47Dalton, GA | 69 | 37 | 7.1 | $4.9M | +3.5% |
| 48Waterbury-Shelton, CT | 69 | 159 | 8.8 | $4.8M | +3.2% |
| 49Yuma, AZ | 69 | 56 | 7.1 | $4.7M | +9.2% |
| 50Janesville-Beloit, WI | 69 | 54 | 8.0 | $4.7M | +1.7% |
Top 25 small-town markets
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Lake of the Woods, VA | 95 | 8 | 5.4 | $8M | +10.1% |
| 2Greencastle, IN | 86 | 8 | 5.7 | $6.7M | +3.2% |
| 3Austin, MN | 85 | 7 | 4.5 | $8.5M | +2.3% |
| 4Anderson Creek, NC | 85 | 36 | 7.2 | $5M | +12.3% |
| 5Bedford, IN | 83 | 8 | 4.2 | $8.5M | +1.2% |
| 6Seneca, SC | 83 | 21 | 6.1 | $5.7M | +6.3% |
| 7Wilmington, OH | 81 | 6 | 3.6 | $10.3M | +0.6% |
| 8Hemlock Farms, PA | 81 | 20 | 8.2 | $4.8M | +7.2% |
| 9Rochelle, IL | 80 | 14 | 6.7 | $5.9M | −0.7% |
| 10Blackfoot, ID | 80 | 11 | 6.8 | $5.5M | +6.4% |
| 11Pottsville, PA | 79 | 20 | 3.4 | $10.2M | +1.5% |
| 12Washington, IN | 79 | 5 | 4.2 | $8.6M | +2.5% |
| 13Scottsboro, AL | 78 | 8 | 3.7 | $8.5M | +3.3% |
| 14Fayetteville, TN | 78 | 10 | 6.7 | $5.1M | +4.3% |
| 15Red Wing, MN | 78 | 17 | 8.6 | $4.7M | +1.3% |
| 16Lock Haven, PA | 77 | 7 | 4.5 | $7.5M | +1.3% |
| 17Beaver Dam, WI | 77 | 22 | 6.1 | $6.2M | −0.3% |
| 18Kingsland, GA | 77 | 15 | 6.9 | $5.3M | +9.5% |
| 19Jefferson, GA | 77 | 29 | 10.2 | $4.1M | +29.3% |
| 20Effingham, IL | 76 | 10 | 5.5 | $7M | −0.9% |
| 21Brigham City, UT-ID | 76 | 15 | 7.0 | $5.6M | +12.6% |
| 22El Campo, TX | 76 | 12 | 7.6 | $4.8M | +1.2% |
| 23Richmond-Berea, KY | 76 | 35 | 7.1 | $4.7M | +7.0% |
| 24Brenham, TX | 76 | 13 | 8.4 | $4.5M | +7.0% |
| 25Cambridge, MD | 75 | 8 | 5.9 | $5.9M | +3.4% |
Top 25 counties
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Goochland County, VA | 98 | 6 | 5.8 | $8.7M | +17.4% |
| 2King George County, VA | 96 | 5 | 4.9 | $9.7M | +10.5% |
| 3Stafford County, VA | 95 | 32 | 6.1 | $8.7M | +8.3% |
| 4Frederick County, VA | 94 | 17 | 4.8 | $9.2M | +8.8% |
| 5New Kent County, VA | 94 | 5 | 5.4 | $8.9M | +21.2% |
| 6Caroline County, VA | 93 | 5 | 4.2 | $9.7M | +11.3% |
| 7Harris County, GA | 93 | 6 | 4.6 | $9.5M | +6.8% |
| 8Chesterfield County, VA | 93 | 76 | 5.4 | $8.3M | +8.7% |
| 9Paulding County, GA | 93 | 32 | 5.3 | $8.1M | +12.7% |
| 10Orange County, VA | 93 | 8 | 5.4 | $8M | +10.1% |
| 11Chatham County, NC | 93 | 24 | 7.3 | $6.2M | +11.0% |
| 12Warren County, MO | 92 | 5 | 3.6 | $11.1M | +9.2% |
| 13Charles County, MD | 92 | 31 | 5.1 | $9.8M | +5.9% |
| 14Sherburne County, MN | 92 | 18 | 5.1 | $9.2M | +6.8% |
| 15Spotsylvania County, VA | 92 | 27 | 5.1 | $9.1M | +10.5% |
| 16Fayette County, TN | 92 | 8 | 4.6 | $8.6M | +7.7% |
| 17Monroe County, GA | 91 | 6 | 5.7 | $7.1M | +14.1% |
| 18Suffolk city, VA | 91 | 24 | 6.3 | $6.6M | +10.4% |
| 19Powhatan County, VA | 91 | 8 | 7.1 | $6.6M | +7.0% |
| 20Effingham County, GA | 90 | 10 | 4.1 | $9.9M | +14.1% |
| 21Sumter County, FL | 90 | 36 | 5.1 | $7.3M | +21.1% |
| 22Lancaster County, SC | 90 | 23 | 5.7 | $6.9M | +18.3% |
| 23Bullitt County, KY | 89 | 14 | 4.4 | $8.8M | +5.0% |
| 24Franklin County, NC | 89 | 14 | 4.9 | $7.5M | +18.8% |
| 25Berkeley County, WV | 89 | 27 | 5.3 | $7.3M | +13.7% |
Scored: 387 metro areas, 529 small-town markets and 2,063 counties, each with at least 5 coffee shops and cafes on map listings (counties: 10,000 people or more). Spending per listing is all household spending on food away from home over the listings: demand for each competitor, not revenue. Each market has its own page, reached from its state below.
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Coffee shops and cafes figures for all 387 metro areas, 538 small-town markets, 3,144 counties and 51 states: the Groundwork market score and rank, map listings and chains, household spending, businesses with payroll, employees and payroll, one-person businesses, SBA-backed loans, population, income and home value, each linked to its page. Sorted, filterable and ready to screen.
Coffee shops and cafes by state
Every market in each state ranked, with the state’s highest-scoring metro area.
- AlabamaTop metro area: Huntsville metro area · 71
- AlaskaTop metro area: Anchorage metro area · 28
- ArizonaTop metro area: Yuma metro area · 69
- ArkansasTop metro area: Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway metro area · 58
- CaliforniaTop metro area: Yuba City metro area · 66
- ColoradoTop metro area: Greeley metro area · 61
- ConnecticutTop metro area: Waterbury-Shelton metro area · 69
- DelawareTop metro area: Dover metro area · 79
- District of ColumbiaTop metro area: Washington-Arlington-Alexandria metro area · 77
- FloridaTop metro area: Wildwood-The Villages metro area · 89
- GeorgiaTop metro area: Hinesville metro area · 79
- HawaiiTop metro area: Urban Honolulu metro area · 25
- IdahoTop metro area: Idaho Falls metro area · 47
- IllinoisTop metro area: Rockford metro area · 67
- IndianaTop metro area: Columbus metro area · 83
- IowaTop metro area: Des Moines-West Des Moines metro area · 54
- KansasTop metro area: Topeka metro area · 50
- KentuckyTop metro area: Bowling Green metro area · 66
- LouisianaTop metro area: Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux metro area · 59
- MaineTop metro area: Lewiston-Auburn metro area · 49
- MarylandTop metro area: Lexington Park metro area · 85
- MassachusettsTop metro area: Worcester metro area · 67
- MichiganTop metro area: Monroe metro area · 78
- MinnesotaTop metro area: Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington metro area · 68
- MississippiTop metro area: Gulfport-Biloxi metro area · 36
- MissouriTop metro area: St. Louis metro area · 69
- MontanaTop metro area: Helena metro area · 39
- NebraskaTop metro area: Omaha metro area · 50
- NevadaTop metro area: Reno metro area · 50
- New HampshireTop metro area: Manchester-Nashua metro area · 57
- New JerseyTop metro area: Vineland metro area · 72
- New MexicoTop metro area: Las Cruces metro area · 45
- New YorkTop metro area: Albany-Schenectady-Troy metro area · 55
- North CarolinaTop metro area: Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia metro area · 74
- North DakotaTop metro area: Fargo metro area · 50
- OhioTop metro area: Columbus metro area · 71
- OklahomaTop metro area: Oklahoma City metro area · 47
- OregonTop metro area: Bend metro area · 35
- PennsylvaniaTop metro area: York-Hanover metro area · 82
- Rhode IslandTop metro area: Providence-Warwick metro area · 37
- South CarolinaTop metro area: Columbia metro area · 76
- South DakotaTop metro area: Sioux Falls metro area · 53
- TennesseeTop metro area: Knoxville metro area · 67
- TexasTop metro area: Odessa metro area · 66
- UtahTop metro area: Logan metro area · 80
- VermontTop metro area: Burlington-South Burlington metro area · 42
- VirginiaTop metro area: Richmond metro area · 86
- WashingtonTop metro area: Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metro area · 37
- West VirginiaTop metro area: Huntington-Ashland metro area · 59
- WisconsinTop metro area: Racine-Mount Pleasant metro area · 75
- WyomingTop metro area: Cheyenne metro area · 42
Related business types
- Restaurants and cafes1,418,317 listings
- Sit-down restaurants792,466 listings
- Fast food and sandwich shops172,373 listings
- Pizza103,490 listings
- Bakeries and dessert shops126,921 listings
Questions
Which metro areas have the highest market score for coffee shops and cafes?
The top 5 are Wildwood-The Villages, FL (89); Richmond, VA (86); Lexington Park, MD (85); Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV (84); and Columbus, IN (83). The score compares each of 387 scored metro areas with the others for coffee shops and cafes.
How many coffee shops and cafes are in the U.S.?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 142,001 coffee shops and cafes in the U.S. 55,918 of them (39%) are chain locations. The listings count coffee, tea, juice and bubble tea shops, and cafes. Official counts show 85,140 businesses with payroll classed as snack and nonalcoholic beverage bars in 2023, up 24.3% from 2019. The official count takes in all snack and nonalcoholic beverage bars, not only coffee shops and cafes: bakeries and dessert shops are counted too. Official counts also show 18,429 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do U.S. households spend on food away from home?
About $525.9B a year, or $4,070 per household. Spread across the 142,001 coffee shops and cafes on map listings, it comes to $3.7M per cafe. That spending covers all food away from home, which coffee shops and cafes share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 129,209,336 households in the U.S. and national spending patterns by income.
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. Markets with fewer than 5 map listings of the type, and counties under 10,000 people, aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
Run a Groundwork site report on an address anywhere in the U.S. It maps the coffee shops and cafes on map listings near the site and sizes the households and spending within the distance you choose. New accounts get 10 actions over 3 days, no card.
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