Which state has the most amusement park businesses? 🎢
1Guess
Which states have the most amusement- and theme-park businesses? Tap them most-to-least.
Tapping assigns 1→4 in order
I bet… Florida — Disney World, easy!
2Answer
The real order is…
Texas wins — and Florida, home of the giants, is only #3! This counts places, not size: every park location counts once, with no extra points for being huge.
📚 BackgroundEveryone shouts Florida — but Texas has the most amusement-park businesses, and Florida is only #3. The lesson: this counts places, not size. Florida's parks are giants — but every business location counts once, with no extra points for size or visitors — while Texas has lots of separate parks. How you count changes who wins!(U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns)
Amusement & theme park businesses (by state, 2022)
Texas#184 park businesses
Highest: Texas (84 park businesses); lowest shown here: West Virginia (3 park businesses).
Note: counts business locations, not size or visitors — a giant resort counts once. 2022, U.S. Census Bureau. Only states where the Census published a count for this industry are shown.
↳ On the Census CBP data (data.census.gov or api.census.gov/data/2022/cbp), filter NAICS 713110 (Amusement and Theme Parks) and read ESTAB (number of establishments) for 2022 by state.