With National Coffee Day around the corner and the retail coffee market worth $49 billion, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2024’s Best Coffee Cities in America, as well as expert commentary, to highlight the best places to enjoy a cup of Joe.
WalletHub compared the 100 largest cities across 12 key indicators of a strong coffee culture. The data set ranges from coffee shops, coffee houses and cafés per capita to the average price per pack of coffee to the share of residents with coffee makers at home.
| Top 20 Cities for Coffee Lovers | ||
| 1. Portland, OR | 11. Oakland, CA | |
| 2. San Francisco, CA | 12. Los Angeles, CA | |
| 3. Seattle, WA | 13. Pittsburgh, PA | |
| 4. Honolulu, HI | 14. San Diego, CA | |
| 5. Orlando, FL | 15. Minneapolis, MN | |
| 6. Tampa, FL | 16. Boston, MA | |
| 7. Long Beach, CA | 17. Atlanta, GA | |
| 8. New Orleans, LA | 18. Sacramento, CA | |
| 9. Austin, TX | 19. Chicago, IL | |
| 10. Miami, FL | 20. Las Vegas, NV |
Best vs. Worst
- Fremont, California, has the highest average annual spending on coffee per household, which is 3.7 times higher than in Detroit, the city with the lowest.
- Chesapeake, Virginia, has the highest share of households that own a single-cup/pod-brewing coffee maker, which is 1.6 times higher than in Newark, New Jersey, the city with the lowest.
- Portland, Oregon, has the most coffee and tea manufacturers (per square root of population), which is 21 times more than in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the city with the fewest.
