With 48,484,029,660 cups of coffee drunk in the US every single year, it’s fair to say that as a country, we can’t get enough of the stuff! But which state takes the crown as the biggest coffee drinker, and which drinks the least? Discover all this and more below…
The report from Wren Kitchens reveals that coffee capital of the US is Oregon, with a higher percentage of its population searching for coffee-related terms on Google than any other state. Every single year, its 4,217,737 population drinks enough cups of coffee to cover the Empire State Building 113 times over!
In second place is Colorado, with its coffee loving population drinking enough cups to 154 Empire State Buildings every single year!
Washington takes third place as the coffee capital of the USA, with its population of over 7 million consuming enough cups of it to cover an impressive 204 Empire State Buildings! New York and California make up the top five.
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Methodology and sources
To work out the coffee capitals, we looked at Google search volumes per state surrounding coffee, and calculated it as a percentage of each state’s population.
To work out the number of cups of coffee drunk in each state per year, we looked at the following:
- The population of states
- The average number of Americans who drink coffee
- The average amount of coffee drunk
- Average size of a cup
- Average amount of coffee in a cup
We used the following websites to find this information:
- https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/top-10-coffee-consuming-nations.html
- https://www.statista.com/statistics/323437/coffee-drinking-us-consumers-by-cup-size/
- https://www.ncausa.org/About-Coffee/How-to-Brew-Coffee#:~:text=A%20general%20guideline%20is%20called,see%20how%20they%20actually%20measure.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division.
We then looked at the height, area and dimensions of landmarks in the US; before working out the number of 12oz coffee cups it would take to fill each landmark. Finally, we worked out how many times each state could cover each landmark with the number of cups of coffee they consume each year.
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