Which states have the most marinas — the places with docks where boats are kept and looked after? Tap them most-to-least.
Tapping assigns 1→4 in order
I bet… Minnesota! It calls itself the Land of 10,000 Lakes 🐾
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The real order is…
Florida takes it — a long coastline with warm water all year. But #2 is New York, the state you probably picture as skyscrapers: it also has Long Island's shores, the Hudson River, the Finger Lakes and a Great Lakes coast. And Minnesota, the Land of 10,000 Lakes? Not even in the top 15. Lots of lakes is not the same as lots of marinas.
📚 BackgroundFlorida is one long coastline with warm water all year, so it takes #1 — but look who is second: New York, the state most people picture as skyscrapers. New York has Long Island's shores, the Hudson River, the Finger Lakes and a Great Lakes coast. And the “Land of 10,000 Lakes,” Minnesota, does not crack the top 15 — so having lakes is not what decides this table by itself.(U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns)
Note: counts marina business locations with paid staff — each counted once, whether it is a big harbor or a small lake dock. Docks and boat ramps run by a town or state are mostly not in this table. 2022, U.S. Census Bureau. Only states where the Census published a count for this industry are shown — the rest have no published count for it.
Census County Business Patterns 2022: marinas (NAICS 713930), establishments by state (2026-07-30) — Official published establishment counts (a business location with paid employees counts once, whatever its size; the committed raw file holds the API values verbatim with the NAICS code). CBP does not cover most government employers, so public boat ramps and harbors run by a town or state are largely outside this count.
↳ On the Census CBP data (data.census.gov or api.census.gov/data/2022/cbp), filter NAICS 713930 (Marinas) and read ESTAB (number of establishments) for 2022 by state.