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Diner capital

New Jersey calls itself the diner capital of the world. 241 diners are mapped across its 21 counties, and in 10 of them there are still more diners than Starbucks. For every 100,000 residents, Salem, Cape May and Warren have the most.

Diners per 100,000 residents, by county

Salem10.77 diners · 1 Starbucks
Cape May9.59 diners · 3 Starbucks
Warren5.46 diners · 3 Starbucks
Atlantic4.713 diners · 13 Starbucks
Morris4.523 diners · 17 Starbucks
Hunterdon3.85 diners · 2 Starbucks
Gloucester3.611 diners · 5 Starbucks
Somerset2.910 diners · 13 Starbucks
Sussex2.74 diners · 3 Starbucks
Ocean2.617 diners · 7 Starbucks
Burlington2.612 diners · 13 Starbucks
Camden2.513 diners · 8 Starbucks
Mercer2.39 diners · 13 Starbucks
Essex2.219 diners · 25 Starbucks
Bergen2.221 diners · 33 Starbucks
Cumberland2.03 diners · 2 Starbucks
Hudson1.914 diners · 14 Starbucks
Union1.911 diners · 12 Starbucks
Passaic1.79 diners · 13 Starbucks
Monmouth1.711 diners · 17 Starbucks
Middlesex1.614 diners · 20 Starbucks

The most diners per resident, by town

Wildwood city7.8 per 10,0004 diners · 5,130 people · Cape May
Keyport borough2.8 per 10,0002 diners · 7,171 people · Monmouth
Butler borough2.5 per 10,0002 diners · 8,133 people · Morris
Long Hill township2.3 per 10,0002 diners · 8,652 people · Morris
Lopatcong township2.1 per 10,0002 diners · 9,321 people · Warren
Waldwick borough2.0 per 10,0002 diners · 10,164 people · Bergen
Southampton township1.9 per 10,0002 diners · 10,372 people · Burlington
Somers Point city1.9 per 10,0002 diners · 10,515 people · Atlantic
Salem city1.9 per 10,0001 diner · 5,322 people · Salem
Frankford township1.9 per 10,0001 diner · 5,322 people · Sussex
Maurice River township1.9 per 10,0001 diner · 5,350 people · Cumberland
Ocean City city1.8 per 10,0002 diners · 11,261 people · Cape May
Blairstown township1.7 per 10,0001 diner · 5,741 people · Warren
Manasquan borough1.7 per 10,0001 diner · 5,922 people · Monmouth
Berlin township1.7 per 10,0001 diner · 5,963 people · Camden

Diners: restaurants in OpenStreetMap tagged cuisine=diner or named one, © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License; the counts are offered under the same licence. Volunteer-mapped: a diner nobody tagged as one is missing, so every figure here is a floor. Residents: the Census Bureau’s five-year American Community Survey. Towns under 5,000 people are left off the town list. More visual stories →