This Is the Starbucks Capital of America

By Douglas A. McIntyre Published May 24, 8:30AM EDT

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Starbuck has been in the news a great deal lately. Its board, dissatisfied with CEO Kevin Johnson’s track record, pushed him out. His replacement was famed Starbucks leader and billionaire Howard D. Schultz. He will be paid just $1, but he does not need the money.

The new Schultz plan includes keeping the unions out of Starbucks. The battle is severe enough that the Guardian reports the company has fired 20 union leaders. The news comes as Starbucks workers have filed petitions for union elections at more than 250 U.S. stores, spanning 35 states.

Most Americans are unaware of the battle. For them, Starbucks is a coffee store on almost every corner. It began as a U.S. success story and now has thousands of stores overseas.

What state has the most Starbucks in total and the most per capita? To answer that question, 24/7 Tempo reviewed data collected by NiceRx, a patient assistance program and medication access company, using numbers for total fast-food restaurants taken from the U.S. Census Bureau and tracking the nation’s 10 most popular chains as determined by ScrapeHero.com. We then ranked the states by their per capita Starbucks population per 100,000 residents, lowest to highest. Population figures are five-year estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2019 American Community Survey.
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It turns out that the Starbucks capital of America is, not surprisingly, the company’s home state of Washington, with 9.7 units per 100,000 people. It is followed by Colorado with 8.8, Nevada and Oregon with 8.2 each and California with 7.4. So it looks as if Starbucks has something of a focus on the West and Northwest.

Interestingly Alaska, which ranks at or near the bottom of our lists of fast-food capitals generally, claims the number seven spot with 6.6 Starbucks restaurants per 100,000 people. Alaskans may like fast food less than other Americans, but they seem to like their coffee quite a bit.

The number 50 and 49 spots are claimed by Mississippi and Alabama, which have only 1.2 and 1.8 Starbucks restaurants per 100,000 people, respectively. Both are in the Deep South, and both rank much higher in their number of other fast-food outlets.
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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.