Providence Ranks 4th in US for Sweet Tooths
Wednesday, April 06, 2016
The City of Providence ranks 4th in the United States for cities with the largest sweet tooth, according to a study done by Infogroup.
The Rankings:
1. Ocean City, NJ
2. Barnstable, MA
3. Salisbury, MD-DE
4. Providence-Warwick, RI-MA
5. Portland-South Portland, ME
6. Norwich-New London, CT
7. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
8. Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT
9. Manchester-Nashua, NH
10. Scranton-Wilkes-Barre-Hazleton, PA
Infogroup has also named doughnuts as the most popular sweet tooth in the New England region with 2.3 Doughnut shops per 10K in Rhode Island.
The charts below show the most popular sweet tooth category in each state and how each category stacks up in Rhode Island.
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
Infogroup is a big data, analytics and marketing services provider which delivers best in class data driven customer centric technology solutions.
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