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Coffee shops & cafés · San Marcos, Texas

San Marcos has fewer coffee shops & cafés per person than the rest of Texas

At the state rate, the city would hold about 12 more. That is room, not a guarantee: the full report checks who is actually open within a few miles and whether the income and foot traffic are there.

25.0% of the state rate for the city. Below 65% counts as underserved, above 135% as crowded. City: Census Business Patterns 2023 by ZIP code, summed over the ZIPs inside the city limits; county: County Business Patterns 2022; ACS 5-year population.

  1. San Marcos4 of them · 68,920 people · 2 ZIP codes
    5.8
  2. Hays County53 of them · 245,351 people
    21.6
  3. Texas6,800 statewide
    23.3
  4. United States78,856 nationwide
    23.8
Establishments per 100,000 residents. One scale, city in blue.

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Fewer per person than the state is a sign of room, more is a sign of a crowd. Neither decides anything on its own: a city can be crowded on average and have a neighborhood with nothing, and a thin city can be thin because nobody there wants one. That is what the paid report checks.

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