Worcester Ranks 18th in US for Sweet Tooths
Wednesday, April 06, 2016
The number one city for sweet tooths was Ocean City, New Jersey, while Barnstable, MA, Salisbury, Maryland, Providence, Rhode Island and Portland, Maine round out the top 5.
See the rankings from 11-20 below.
The Rankings:
11. Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ
12. New Haven-Milford, CT
13. Wenatchee, WA
14. Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC
15. Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT
16. Tyler, TX
17. Lewiston-Auburn, ME
18. Worcester, MA-CT
19. Burlington-South Burlington, VT
20. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metro Area
Infogroup has also named doughnuts as the most popular sweet tooth in the New England region and names Worcester a top five doughnut city.
The charts below show the most popular sweet tooth category in each state.
The Study
To find out which cities had the largest sweet tooth, Infogroup used its verified business database of over 17 million records to measure the number of "sweet" retailers per city.
All 381 Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the U.S. (cities with a population of 50,000 or more) were ranked by their concentration of sweet tooth stores per 10,000 residents.
The study factored ice cream parlors, candy shops, doughnut stores, and bakeries into the analysis.
Infogroup
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