This Is The City With The Fewest Pizza Places

By Douglas A. McIntyre Published Sep 5, 8:53AM EDT

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Pizza chains are among the most successful food franchises in America. There are approximately 78,000 pizza stores in the U.S. Pizza Hut, Papa John’s, Domino’s, and Little Caesar’s have built huge businesses which have revenue in the billions of dollars a year.

According to one study, the average American eats 46 pizza slices a year. The Washington Post claims Americans eat 100 ares of pizza every day.

While pizza locations seem to be ubiquitous, the number varies considerably from city to city. We picked the city with the fewest pizza places using data from the Pizza Index 2021, Yelp API, and the US Census Bureau.

The city with the fewest pizza places is Detroit with only .9 locations per 100,000 people. While there is no any proof of a connection between pizza and demographics, Detroit is one of the poorest cities in America, both based on median household income and poverty. And, much of the city has been deserted as it went from a city of over 1.5 million people in 1950 to one of less than 700,000 people today.

At the other end of the spectrum, the city with the most pizza places is Fort Lauderdale Florida, which has 95 locations per 100,000. It has a population of 182,437. A number of the top cities are also in Florida, although there is no accounting for exactly why this is true.

To identify the city with the fewest pizza places, 24/7 Tempo reviewed the number of pizza places per 100K from the Pizza Index 2021 for 259 cities around the country. Total population used to adjust for pizzerias per 100K population was from the US Census Bureau.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.