In a bid to determine the best local coffee scenes in the country, a team from WalletHub compared the 100 largest cities across 14 key indicators of coffee lover-friendliness. Researchers evaluated data such as number of coffee shops per capita and the average price per pack of coffee.
Seattle tops the charts, just edging our Northwest neighbor Portland, which posted a strong No. 2 showing. San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles rounded out the Top 5 while Laredo, Texas ranked last in the study.
Seattle scored particularly well in the category “Most Affordable Coffee Shops, Coffee Houses & Cafes Rated 4.5+ stars per Capita”, tying with San Diego, San Francisco and Portland for tops in the nation.
And the joke goes around there that you can find two coffee shops on every corner and while that might not be literally true (it’s just on *most* corners), Seattle also tied for first among “Most Coffee Shops, Coffee Houses & Cafe’s Per Capita.”
Keeping with the “scoring well in the per capita categories”, Seattle finished first among coffee and tea manufacturers per capita.
In the more oddball categories, Seattle was 5th among cities who Googled “coffee”. It fared the worst in “average price per pack of Coffee” which at $5.61 ranked 77th, and the average price of a Cappuccino at $4.04, ranking 69th.
