Store Density by State: Stores per 100,000 Residents

200,816 stores from 72 major US retail brands, compared to each state's population.

West Virginia has the most stores per resident: 84.9 per 100,000 people (1,503 stores). Puerto Rico has the fewest with 11.1. The average across all states is 59.4. Download the data (CSV).

#	State	Stores	Population (2024)	Stores per 100,000
1	West Virginia	1,503	1,770,071	84.9
2	Mississippi	2,219	2,948,291	75.3
3	Alabama	3,825	5,108,468	74.9
4	New Hampshire	1,065	1,423,228	74.8
5	South Carolina	3,974	5,373,555	74.0
6	Kentucky	3,237	4,505,836	71.8
7	Virginia	6,233	8,715,698	71.5
8	Florida	16,157	22,610,726	71.5
9	Tennessee	4,972	7,126,489	69.8
10	Louisiana	3,222	4,624,047	69.7
11	Arkansas	2,084	3,067,732	67.9
12	Oklahoma	2,733	4,053,824	67.4
13	Wyoming	389	580,866	67.0
14	Georgia	7,344	11,029,227	66.6
15	Delaware	687	1,031,890	66.6
16	North Carolina	7,261	10,962,829	66.2
17	Indiana	4,509	6,862,199	65.7
18	Rhode Island	718	1,095,962	65.5
19	Maine	878	1,344,212	65.3
20	Connecticut	2,328	3,626,205	64.2
21	Ohio	7,551	11,785,869	64.1
22	Illinois	8,001	12,549,689	63.8
23	Kansas	1,873	2,937,880	63.8
24	Missouri	3,932	6,196,911	63.5
25	Massachusetts	4,421	7,029,917	62.9
26	Maryland	3,856	6,164,660	62.6
27	Nevada	1,993	3,194,176	62.4
28	New Mexico	1,317	2,117,522	62.2
29	Pennsylvania	7,763	12,961,683	59.9
30	Texas	18,244	30,503,301	59.8
31	Colorado	3,511	5,897,953	59.5
32	Michigan	5,861	10,037,261	58.4
33	Nebraska	1,109	1,920,076	57.8
34	New Jersey	5,359	9,290,841	57.7
35	Iowa	1,801	3,207,287	56.2
36	Arizona	4,160	7,431,344	56.0
37	South Dakota	494	887,770	55.6
38	Montana	572	1,105,379	51.7
39	Wisconsin	3,059	5,912,301	51.7
40	Vermont	331	645,570	51.3
41	New York	9,653	19,571,216	49.3
42	North Dakota	384	780,968	49.2
43	Oregon	2,036	4,233,358	48.1
44	Utah	1,616	3,417,734	47.3
45	Minnesota	2,657	5,737,915	46.3
46	California	18,070	39,029,342	46.3
47	Idaho	888	1,964,726	45.2
48	Washington	3,528	7,812,880	45.2
49	Washington, D.C.	291	671,803	43.3
50	Hawaii	539	1,440,196	37.4
51	Alaska	244	733,406	33.3
52	Puerto Rico	355	3,205,000	11.1

Frequently asked questions

Which state has the most stores per capita?

West Virginia has the most stores per capita in our data, with 84.9 stores of the 72 tracked brands per 100,000 residents.

Which state has the fewest stores per capita?

Puerto Rico has the fewest, with 11.1 stores per 100,000 residents.

What is the national average?

Across the states and territories we cover, there are about 59.4 stores of the tracked brands per 100,000 residents.

Methodology

Store counts are open locations of the 72 retail brands tracked by StoresInfo.com, collected from each retailer's own store locator; they do not include every retailer in a state, so the figures compare states with each other rather than measuring total retail. Population figures are 2024 estimates. Details in our Data & Editorial Policy. You may quote these figures with a link to this page.