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Highest grocery stores by state

Supermarkets and grocery stores.

This measure has no better end. The order describes the states, it does not rank them — see the other direction.

Supermarkets and grocery stores — the places you do a weekly shop — counted as establishments, not chains: three branches of one chain count as three. A zero is a real finding rather than missing data: around 850 counties have no supermarket at all, and the count is only written where the Census reached the county under the broader retail code, which proves it was covered. Convenience stores are counted separately beside this, because a county with a filling station and no supermarket is a different place from one with three supermarkets. This counts shops inside the county line, so somewhere with none may still be ten minutes from a large store across the border.

  1. 1New York8,319
  2. 2California8,044
  3. 3Florida3,833
  4. 4Texas3,572
  5. 5Illinois2,607
  6. 6Pennsylvania2,537
  7. 7New Jersey2,405
  8. 8North Carolina1,989
  9. 9Ohio1,879
  10. 10Georgia1,702
  11. 11Michigan1,674
  12. 12Washington1,583
  13. 13Virginia1,427
  14. 14Massachusetts1,348
  15. 15Maryland1,256
  16. 16Tennessee1,051
  17. 17Minnesota966
  18. 18Wisconsin963
  19. 19Indiana927
  20. 20South Carolina902
  21. 21Missouri882
  22. 22Louisiana861
  23. 23Arizona800
  24. 24Connecticut767
  25. 25Alabama764
  26. 26Oregon747
  27. 27Colorado744
  28. 28Kentucky665
  29. 29Iowa568
  30. 30Oklahoma449
  31. 31Arkansas417
  32. 32Kansas406
  33. 33Utah398
  34. 34Nebraska365
  35. 35Mississippi364
  36. 36Maine357
  37. 37Nevada354
  38. 38Hawaii272
  39. 39Idaho256
  40. 40New Hampshire240
  41. 41New Mexico235
  42. 42West Virginia226
  43. 43Montana219
  44. 44Vermont218
  45. 45Rhode Island204
  46. 46Alaska195
  47. 47Delaware174
  48. 48District of Columbia169
  49. 49South Dakota138
  50. 50North Dakota127
  51. 51Wyoming88
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Source: Census County Business Patterns. · How this is built