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Coffee Roaster Stats, 2026

We mapped America's independent coffee roasters — 6,818 roasteries and roaster-cafés with 1,900,411 customer reviews between them. Everyone assumes the Pacific Northwest wins the fresh-roasted crown; here's what the per-capita numbers actually say. (Journalists & bloggers: cite freely with a link.)

Coffee roasters per 100k residents, by state

#StateRoastersPer 100k people
1 Wyoming 31 5.28
2 Idaho 74 3.70
3 Utah 125 3.57
4 Oregon 150 3.51
5 South Dakota 32 3.46
6 Washington 257 3.23
7 Montana 35 3.08
8 Colorado 179 3.00
9 Alaska 22 2.97
10 Rhode Island 33 2.97
11 New Hampshire 41 2.91
12 Connecticut 100 2.72
13 Minnesota 152 2.62
14 Vermont 17 2.62
15 North Dakota 20 2.51

The Pacific Northwest doesn't take the crown: Wyoming leads at 5.28 roasters per 100k residents, with Washington 6th and Oregon 4th.

America's biggest roaster cities

Cities with the most independent roasters in the directory.

#CityRoasters
1 Chicago, IL 38
2 New York, NY 35
3 Portland, OR 33
4 Los Angeles, CA 31
5 San Diego, CA 30
6 Brooklyn, NY 29
7 Denver, CO 26
8 Philadelphia, PA 26
9 San Francisco, CA 26
10 Seattle, WA 26

America's densest fresh-roast cities

Roasters per 100k residents — cities over 50k population with 3+ roasters. Raw counts favor big cities; this is the pound-for-pound table.

#CityRoastersPer 100k
1 Bozeman, MT 11 19.0
2 Santa Cruz, CA 11 17.6
3 Coeur d'Alene, ID 10 17.4
4 Hoboken, NJ 10 16.9
5 Olympia, WA 9 16.0
6 Lancaster, PA 9 15.4
7 San Rafael, CA 9 15.0
8 Encinitas, CA 9 14.7
9 Santa Barbara, CA 12 13.7
10 Kalamazoo, MI 10 13.6
11 Casper, WY 8 13.6
12 Boulder, CO 14 13.1
13 Bend, OR 14 13.1
14 Pensacola, FL 7 13.0
15 Portland, ME 9 12.9

Wholesale hotspots

2586 roasters in the directory supply cafés, restaurants, and offices wholesale. These cities have the deepest benches — at least two wholesale programs to taste against each other.

Buying beans for a business? Start with the wholesale coffee hub.

More data

This page is the anchor — the full stats suite goes deeper. Every dataset below is free to cite (link back) and downloadable as CSV.

Cite this data

Journalists, bloggers, and researchers: this dataset is free to cite with attribution. Suggested line:

"Wyoming has the most coffee roasters per capita in America (5.28 per 100k residents), per coffeeroasternearme.com's 2026 directory data" — coffeeroasternearme.com/coffee-stats/

Download the full dataset (CSV) · Updated July 15, 2026 · License: CC BY 4.0

Methodology: roaster counts from our continuously maintained national directory (public business listings, filtered to genuine coffee roasteries and roaster-cafés); populations = US Census Bureau 2024 estimates. Per-capita figures are computed, not estimated. Want the dataset for a story? Email us.