Bars in the United States — the numbers
We maintain 60,006 bars across the country. Below is what that looks like by state: raw count, count per 100,000 residents, and how complete the listings are. Updated October 2026.
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· bars_cities.csv
(every city with three or more bars). Updated October 2026.
Density: bars per 100,000 residents
Population is the 2020 Census count. Density says more than a raw count: North Dakota has 47.9 per 100,000 — 7.3× the rate of Utah.
| State | Bars | Per 100k | With a website | With a phone |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 696 | 13.9 | 37% | 80% |
| Alaska | 152 | 20.7 | 55% | 91% |
| Arizona | 931 | 13.0 | 50% | 85% |
| Arkansas | 311 | 10.3 | 37% | 83% |
| California | 4905 | 12.4 | 53% | 84% |
| Colorado | 1061 | 18.4 | 57% | 89% |
| Connecticut | 574 | 15.9 | 40% | 82% |
| Delaware | 118 | 11.9 | 43% | 69% |
| Florida | 4339 | 20.1 | 47% | 81% |
| Georgia | 1462 | 13.6 | 43% | 80% |
| Hawaii | 294 | 20.2 | 53% | 83% |
| Idaho | 364 | 19.8 | 45% | 92% |
| Illinois | 3357 | 26.2 | 45% | 86% |
| Indiana | 982 | 14.5 | 45% | 84% |
| Iowa | 948 | 29.7 | 42% | 86% |
| Kansas | 430 | 14.6 | 43% | 87% |
| Kentucky | 602 | 13.4 | 39% | 78% |
| Louisiana | 1441 | 30.9 | 37% | 82% |
| Maine | 201 | 14.8 | 47% | 75% |
| Maryland | 850 | 13.8 | 44% | 82% |
| Massachusetts | 1016 | 14.5 | 52% | 83% |
| Michigan | 1735 | 17.2 | 46% | 81% |
| Minnesota | 1012 | 17.7 | 46% | 83% |
| Mississippi | 501 | 16.9 | 31% | 77% |
| Missouri | 1131 | 18.4 | 44% | 84% |
| Montana | 415 | 38.3 | 48% | 91% |
| Nebraska | 529 | 27.0 | 44% | 87% |
| Nevada | 808 | 26.0 | 55% | 81% |
| New Hampshire | 177 | 12.8 | 44% | 69% |
| New Jersey | 1361 | 14.7 | 47% | 78% |
| New Mexico | 202 | 9.5 | 50% | 78% |
| New York | 4330 | 21.4 | 49% | 83% |
| North Carolina | 1547 | 14.8 | 43% | 81% |
| North Dakota | 373 | 47.9 | 40% | 91% |
| Ohio | 2542 | 21.5 | 45% | 83% |
| Oklahoma | 751 | 19.0 | 38% | 82% |
| Oregon | 831 | 19.6 | 53% | 89% |
| Pennsylvania | 2791 | 21.5 | 47% | 82% |
| Rhode Island | 271 | 24.7 | 44% | 82% |
| South Carolina | 928 | 18.1 | 41% | 81% |
| South Dakota | 342 | 38.6 | 40% | 84% |
| Tennessee | 1022 | 14.8 | 45% | 81% |
| Texas | 5566 | 19.1 | 40% | 82% |
| Utah | 216 | 6.6 | 57% | 88% |
| Vermont | 132 | 20.5 | 53% | 83% |
| Virginia | 772 | 8.9 | 45% | 83% |
| Washington | 1065 | 13.8 | 56% | 89% |
| Washington DC | 319 | 46.2 | 67% | 82% |
| West Virginia | 370 | 20.6 | 32% | 85% |
| Wisconsin | 2718 | 46.1 | 41% | 87% |
| Wyoming | 215 | 37.3 | 47% | 93% |
Cities with the most bars
| City | State | Bars |
|---|---|---|
| New York | New York | 1472 |
| Houston | Texas | 915 |
| Chicago | Illinois | 904 |
| Los Angeles | California | 564 |
| Las Vegas | Nevada | 517 |
| Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | 498 |
| Brooklyn | New York | 481 |
| San Antonio | Texas | 454 |
| San Francisco | California | 433 |
| Austin | Texas | 385 |
| New Orleans | Louisiana | 360 |
| Dallas | Texas | 353 |
| Portland | Oregon | 351 |
| Atlanta | Georgia | 344 |
| Seattle | Washington | 336 |
| Milwaukee | Wisconsin | 330 |
| Denver | Colorado | 327 |
| Orlando | Florida | 323 |
| Miami | Florida | 319 |
| Washington | Washington DC | 317 |
| San Diego | California | 283 |
| Baltimore | Maryland | 282 |
| Columbus | Ohio | 272 |
| Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | 266 |
| Detroit | Michigan | 253 |
How this is built
Locations come from Overture Maps (open data), filtered to bars in the US and cleaned: duplicates merged, dead entries dropped, phone numbers normalized. Websites, opening hours and amenities are checked against each business's own site. We keep monthly snapshots, so the counts above are a point in time, not a running total — ask if you need an earlier one.