Industry · NAICS 4471
Gasoline stations
The United States has 109,174 employer establishments in gasoline stations (3.2 per 10,000 residents), employing 1,016,960 people at an average annual pay of $29,193, plus 7,520 nonemployer businesses.
In the United States
- Establishments
- 109,174
- 7,520 nonemployers
- Per 10,000 residents
- 3.2
- Paid employees
- 1,016,960
- Average annual pay
- $29,193
Places ranked by residents per establishment
Places ranked by residents per establishment: more residents for each business, fewer competitors per resident. A count, not a measure of demand: retirement areas, low incomes or tourism change what a business needs.
| # | Place | vs US | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Urban Honolulu, HI | 989,698 | 121 | 8,179 | 1.2 | 0.38× | 1,350 | $75,317 | 5 |
| 2 | Vineland, NJ | 154,497 | 23 | 6,717 | 1.5 | 0.46× | 866 | $21,364 | 4 |
| 3 | San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA | 4,601,326 | 758 | 6,070 | 1.6 | 0.51× | 5,880 | $37,262 | 41 |
| 4 | Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ | 5,087,631 | 842 | 6,042 | 1.7 | 0.51× | 10,844 | $33,898 | 42 |
| 5 | Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT | 739,116 | 123 | 6,009 | 1.7 | 0.51× | 1,590 | $28,296 | 3 |
| 6 | Anchorage, AK | 401,959 | 68 | 5,911 | 1.7 | 0.52× | 812 | $37,876 | 7 |
| 7 | Naples-Marco Island, FL | 411,435 | 71 | 5,795 | 1.7 | 0.53× | 761 | $27,435 | 7 |
| 8 | San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA | 3,279,736 | 572 | 5,734 | 1.7 | 0.54× | 5,099 | $32,589 | 13 |
| 9 | San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA | 1,958,644 | 343 | 5,710 | 1.8 | 0.54× | 2,471 | $41,703 | 13 |
| 10 | Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA | 12,881,909 | 2,284 | 5,640 | 1.8 | 0.55× | 18,110 | $34,345 | 90 |
| 11 | Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA | 4,062,857 | 723 | 5,619 | 1.8 | 0.55× | 5,296 | $37,709 | 38 |
| 12 | New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ | 19,788,976 | 3,548 | 5,578 | 1.8 | 0.55× | 23,807 | $31,440 | 444 |
| 13 | Boulder, CO | 327,945 | 59 | 5,558 | 1.8 | 0.55× | 390 | $34,874 | — |
| 14 | Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA | 2,519,045 | 456 | 5,524 | 1.8 | 0.56× | 5,447 | $31,975 | 22 |
| 15 | Salem, OR | 440,104 | 80 | 5,501 | 1.8 | 0.56× | 1,164 | $32,153 | — |
| 16 | Logan, UT-ID | 158,554 | 29 | 5,467 | 1.8 | 0.56× | 355 | $24,068 | — |
| 17 | Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD | 6,277,370 | 1,165 | 5,388 | 1.9 | 0.57× | 16,978 | $27,147 | 101 |
| 18 | Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV | 6,328,730 | 1,190 | 5,318 | 1.9 | 0.58× | 10,964 | $31,628 | 86 |
| 19 | Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL | 6,353,900 | 1,203 | 5,282 | 1.9 | 0.58× | 10,007 | $29,170 | 214 |
| 20 | Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA | 263,322 | 51 | 5,163 | 1.9 | 0.60× | 353 | $36,516 | — |
| 21 | Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL | 846,125 | 167 | 5,067 | 2 | 0.61× | 1,869 | $25,956 | 9 |
| 22 | Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA | 442,878 | 88 | 5,033 | 2 | 0.61× | 714 | $39,290 | — |
| 23 | Boise City, ID | 827,672 | 165 | 5,016 | 2 | 0.61× | 2,593 | $41,151 | 5 |
| 24 | Salt Lake City-Murray, UT | 1,287,775 | 258 | 4,991 | 2 | 0.62× | 2,751 | $33,706 | 9 |
| 25 | North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL | 917,527 | 186 | 4,933 | 2 | 0.63× | 1,966 | $25,868 | 12 |
1–25 of 398 places
Sources: County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024).
- Residents per establishment is the place's population estimate for 2023 divided by its establishments; more residents per business means fewer competitors per resident. Places with fewer than the minimum establishments are left out because a handful of businesses makes the ratio jump around.
- Metro areas are made of whole counties and their figures are the exact sums of those counties'. A metro area is listed under its principal state.
- This compares counts of businesses with counts of residents. It does not measure demand, spending power, visitors, the size or quality of the businesses, or whether a market is open. Employment and payroll carry the Census Bureau's noise infusion.
- County Business Patterns 2023 uses NAICS 2017 codes; the nonemployer figures use NAICS 2022. Industries are matched by name between editions.
- Growth needs a second reference year of County Business Patterns in the same industry classification; only 2023 is loaded, so there is no growth column yet.
Federal contracts in this industry
Federal agencies obligated $2.7M on contracts under NAICS 4571, 4471 in fiscal year 2026, nationwide (40 awards, each counted once per county where it was performed).
Counties
- Pacific County, WA$56K2.1%1 award
Cities and towns
- Ilwaco city, WA$3,3180.1%1 award
Where the work was performed, as agencies report it (often the contractor's office). Metro areas are the exact sums of their counties. Cities are estimated: each action's county money split by the share of its ZIP code's land inside the city, so a city's figure is part of its county's.
USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS)