New Study Says Coffee Isn’t Very Popular In Detroit

DETROIT, MI — It’s National Coffee Day in America. Did you know that the U.S. coffee industry currently valued at $48 billion? But according to a new report, it's not as bustling of an industry in Detroit as it is elsewhere.

The personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2018's Best Coffee Cities in America and the study found that coffee isn’t nearly as popular in Detroit as it is in the other 99 cities it ranked.

Detroit came in at the bottom of the list and has some of the lowest percentages of people who reportedly drink coffee daily or even own their own coffee pot. Detroit had some of the lowest spending per person on coffee, too.

It came in 98th in “Coffee Cities” in America.

In determining the best local coffee scenes in America, WalletHub compared the 100 largest cities across 14 key indicators of a strong coffee culture. The data set ranges from coffee shops, coffee houses and cafés per capita to average price per pack of coffee.

Here’s what the study found:

Top 10 Cities for Coffee Lovers

1. New York, NY

2. Seattle, WA

3. San Francisco, CA

4. Portland, OR

5. Los Angeles, CA

6. Washington, DC

7. Chicago, IL

8. Miami, FL

9. Boston, MA

10. San Diego, CA

Best vs. Worst

• Tulsa, Oklahoma has the lowest average price for a pack of coffee, $3.38, which is 2.4 times lower than in Honolulu, the city with the highest at $8.16.

• Fremont, California, has the highest average annual spending on coffee per household, $186.85, which is three times higher than in Cleveland, the city with the lowest at $63.06.

• Gilbert, Arizona, has the highest share of households that own a single-cup/pod-brewing coffee maker, 24.50 percent, which is 2.7 times higher than in Hialeah, Florida, the city with the lowest at 8.99 percent.

• New York has the most coffee shops, coffee houses and cafés (per square root of population), 1.1791, which is 17.4 times more than in Laredo, Texas, the city with the fewest at 0.0678.

• Portland, Oregon, has the most coffee and tea manufacturers (per square root of population), 0.0209, which is 41.8 times more than in Riverside and San Bernardino, California, the cities with the fewest at 0.0005.

To view the full report, click here.

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