America’s 5 Best and Worst Cities for Hamburgers

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Saturday is National Hamburger Day, and here at Estately, we take burgers very seriously. So seriously in fact, that we combed through Yelp data to create this attractive map of America’s best and worst cities for burgers. We scored each city from 0-300 on the abundance of burger restaurants. The score takes three variables and weights them equally—burger restaurants per capita, burger restaurants per square mile, and the percentage of all area restaurants that burger joints make up. Check out the results below—they might just help you decide where to live and buy a home.

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We’ve included our complete burger rankings of the 50 largest U.S. cities below.

  1. Atlanta, GA
  2. Detroit, MI
  3. Miami, FL
  4. Washington, DC
  5. Mesa, Arizona
  6. Cleveland, OH
  7. Omaha, NE
  8. Kansas City, MO
  9. Denver, CO
  10. Milwaukee, WI
  11. Baltimore, MD
  12. Indianapolis, IN
  13. Dallas, TX
  14. Tulsa, OK
  15. Fort Worth, TX
  16. Sacramento, CA
  17. Wichita, KS
  18. Chicago, IL
  19. Minneapolis, MN
  20. Seattle, WA
  21. Oakland, CA
  22. Las Vegas, NV
  23. Albuquerque, NM
  24. Louisville-Jefferson, KY
  25. Raleigh, NC
  26. Memphis, TN
  27. Long Beach, CA
  28. Los Angeles, CA
  29. Nashville-Davidson, TN
  30. Columbus, OH
  31. Virginia Beach, VA
  32. Oklahoma City, OK
  33. Portland, OR
  34. Charlotte, NC
  35. Houston, TX
  36. San Francisco, CA
  37. Fresno, CA
  38. Colorado Springs, CO
  39. Phoenix, AZ
  40. Jacksonville, FL
  41. Austin, TX
  42. El Paso, TX
  43. San Antonio, TX
  44. Arlington, TX
  45. Tucson, AZ
  46. New York, NY
  47. San Jose, CA
  48. Boston, MA
  49. San Diego, CA
  50. Philadelphia, PA

Curious what the top cities are for Tex-Mex, Thai food, donuts, and more than a dozen other food categories? Check out a collection of similar maps.

Candace Ramirez