Mapped Shopping Centers Per Capita by State

Across this directory's dataset, the United States has about 0.9 mapped shopping-center records for every 100,000 residents. The spread between states is substantial: Hawaii tops the list at 4.3 malls per 100,000 people — roughly 8× the density of last-place Arizona (0.5). California has the most mapped records outright (320), but population places it #32 per capita.

Methodology: counts are shopping-mall and shopping-center records in OpenStreetMap from the July 11, 2026 dataset (3,135 properties); populations are 2020 U.S. Census resident counts. This comparison reflects OpenStreetMap coverage as well as real-world retail density and is not an official mall census. The U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands are excluded — with populations under 200,000, a few tourist-district malls would top this chart on denominator size alone.

#	State	Malls	Population	Per 100k
1	Hawaii	63	1,455,271	4.3
2	Oklahoma	159	3,959,353	4.0
3	Maine	54	1,362,359	4.0
4	Alaska	20	733,391	2.7
5	North Dakota	16	779,094	2.1
6	Minnesota	99	5,706,494	1.7
7	Montana	18	1,084,225	1.7
8	Vermont	10	643,077	1.6
9	South Dakota	13	886,667	1.5
10	Ohio	154	11,799,448	1.3
11	Wisconsin	74	5,893,718	1.3
12	New Jersey	115	9,288,994	1.2
13	Nebraska	24	1,961,504	1.2
14	Pennsylvania	155	13,002,700	1.2
15	New Mexico	24	2,117,522	1.1
16	Washington	87	7,705,281	1.1
17	Tennessee	78	6,910,840	1.1
18	South Carolina	54	5,118,425	1.1
19	Wyoming	6	576,851	1.0
20	Oregon	44	4,237,256	1.0
21	Delaware	10	989,948	1.0
22	Iowa	32	3,190,369	1.0
23	Florida	210	21,538,187	1.0
24	West Virginia	17	1,793,716	0.9
25	Nevada	28	3,104,614	0.9
26	District of Columbia	6	689,545	0.9
27	Georgia	93	10,711,908	0.9
28	Arkansas	26	3,011,524	0.9
29	Michigan	84	10,077,331	0.8
30	Missouri	51	6,154,913	0.8
31	Massachusetts	57	7,029,917	0.8
32	California	320	39,538,223	0.8
33	Colorado	46	5,773,714	0.8
34	Louisiana	37	4,657,757	0.8
35	Idaho	14	1,839,106	0.8
36	Virginia	64	8,631,393	0.7
37	Rhode Island	8	1,097,379	0.7
38	New Hampshire	10	1,377,529	0.7
39	Indiana	49	6,785,528	0.7
40	Mississippi	21	2,961,279	0.7
41	New York	143	20,201,249	0.7
42	Connecticut	25	3,605,944	0.7
43	Illinois	88	12,812,508	0.7
44	Kansas	20	2,937,880	0.7
45	Puerto Rico	22	3,285,874	0.7
46	Alabama	33	5,024,279	0.7
47	Maryland	40	6,177,224	0.6
48	Utah	21	3,271,616	0.6
49	North Carolina	67	10,439,388	0.6
50	Kentucky	27	4,505,836	0.6
51	Texas	162	29,145,505	0.6
52	Arizona	37	7,151,502	0.5

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