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Skateparks per capita by state, 2026

Name: Skateparks per capita by state 2026
Creator: Skatedex
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All 50 states ranked by public, open skateparks per 100,000 residents. Wyoming leads at 4.25; the national rate is 0.77. Tap a state for its cities.

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Rank	State	Public parks	Population	Per 100k
1	Wyoming	25	588,753	4.25
2	Montana	40	1,144,694	3.49
3	Vermont	21	644,663	3.26
4	Alaska	17	737,270	2.31
5	Utah	77	3,538,904	2.18
6	Oregon	89	4,273,586	2.08
7	New Hampshire	29	1,415,342	2.05
8	Colorado	112	6,012,561	1.86
9	Maine	26	1,414,874	1.84
10	Idaho	34	2,029,733	1.68
11	Washington	133	8,001,020	1.66
12	Hawaii	22	1,432,820	1.54
13	South Dakota	14	935,094	1.50
14	Minnesota	82	5,830,405	1.41
15	Iowa	45	3,238,387	1.39
16	New Mexico	28	2,125,498	1.32
17	West Virginia	22	1,766,147	1.25
18	Connecticut	42	3,688,496	1.14
19	Wisconsin	66	5,972,787	1.11
20	California	407	39,355,309	1.03
21	Rhode Island	10	1,114,521	0.90
22	Nebraska	18	2,018,006	0.89
23	North Dakota	7	799,358	0.88
24	Arizona	66	7,623,818	0.87
25	Michigan	88	10,127,884	0.87
26	Nevada	27	3,282,188	0.82
27	Oklahoma	34	4,123,288	0.82
28	Ohio	94	11,900,510	0.79
29	Delaware	8	1,059,952	0.75
30	Arkansas	23	3,114,791	0.74
31	Illinois	94	12,719,141	0.74
32	Indiana	50	6,973,333	0.72
33	Missouri	44	6,270,541	0.70
34	Kansas	20	2,977,220	0.67
35	Texas	189	31,709,821	0.60
36	Virginia	46	8,880,107	0.52
37	Tennessee	37	7,315,076	0.51
38	Florida	113	23,462,518	0.48
39	New Jersey	46	9,548,215	0.48
40	Kentucky	19	4,606,864	0.41
41	Louisiana	18	4,618,189	0.39
42	Maryland	24	6,265,347	0.38
43	New York	72	20,002,427	0.36
44	Georgia	40	11,302,748	0.35
45	Mississippi	10	2,954,160	0.34
46	Alabama	14	5,193,088	0.27
47	South Carolina	15	5,570,274	0.27
48	North Carolina	28	11,197,968	0.25
49	Pennsylvania	29	13,059,432	0.22
50	Massachusetts	11	7,154,084	0.15

Methodology

Parks. Only skateparks in the Skatedex directory marked public and open are counted: entries flagged private or permanently closed are excluded, as are parks without a map location. Directory as of 2026-09-16.

Population. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 Population Estimates (resident population as of July 1, 2025): state totals and incorporated-place totals. Cities are Census places (incorporated cities, towns and villages), not metro areas; a park counts for the place named in its address, or, when the address does not name a Census place, for the place whose boundary-equivalent circle contains it. Parks in unincorporated areas count for their state but no city.

Rates. Parks per 100,000 residents = parks divided by population times 100,000. States are ranked 1 to 50 (District of Columbia is shown with cities). Cities are ranked among all 824 incorporated places with at least 50,000 residents. Ties are broken by park count, then population.

Skatepark deserts. Places of at least 50,000 residents with no public, open skatepark listed in the Skatedex directory inside them by either test above. A listing gap and a real gap look the same here, so each desert shows the nearest listed public park; if you know of a park inside a listed city, submit it and the next edition will count it.

Change since last year. This is the first edition; the 2027 edition will show movement against these numbers.

How this differs from the Skatedex Annual Index. The Annual Index 2026 counts every listed park, uses the prior Census vintage, and scores cities by parks within a 10-mile radius of the center. These rankings use the newest vintage, public and open parks only, and place boundaries, so ranks differ. Both are free to cite with a link.