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Top 50 U.S. cities for federal alcohol permits

U.S. cities ranked by federal alcohol permit holders, wineries, distilleries, importers, and wholesalers that list the city as their premises in the TTB List of Permittees.

Napa
#1 city
1,798
Permit holders
24.6%
Share in top 50
11,147
Cities covered

The leaderboard in one line

Napa, California leads all U.S. cities with 1,798 federal alcohol permit holders, ahead of Miami, Florida (1,216) and New York, New York (1,108).

1,798
permit holders · Napa
1,216
permit holders · Miami
24.6%
of holders in the top 50
11,147
U.S. cities covered

Source: TTB FOIA List of Permittees, April 2025.

According to the U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) List of Permittees, published April 2025, 83,590 federal alcohol Basic Permits are on file across 11,147 U.S. cities. These 50 cities concentrate the most permit holders; each links to its full local directory. See the methodology for how cities are attributed.

State concentration in the top 50

How many of the 50 leading cities sit in each state.

California 19 cities Florida 4 cities Texas 4 cities Washington 3 cities New York 2 cities

Top 50 cities by permit holders

# City Permit holdersWineriesImportersWholesalers
1 Napa, California 1,798 789 232 754
2 Miami, Florida 1,216 9 655 539
3 New York, New York 1,108 7 551 548
4 Los Angeles, California 838 9 362 455
5 Houston, Texas 782 60 318 374
6 Chicago, Illinois 679 21 283 355
7 Brooklyn, New York 662 15 270 341
8 Paso Robles, California 641 461 34 130
9 Santa Rosa, California 622 257 77 280
10 San Francisco, California 573 58 176 327
11 Portland, Oregon 556 74 134 320
12 Healdsburg, California 535 308 42 174
13 Seattle, Washington 534 60 148 296
14 San Diego, California 500 34 191 254
15 Saint Helena, California 489 208 46 232
16 Sonoma, California 482 231 59 186
17 Las Vegas, Nevada 446 1 200 236
18 Denver, Colorado 441 20 140 256
19 Raleigh, North Carolina 436 7 111 312
20 Austin, Texas 414 36 174 186
21 Atlanta, Georgia 352 20 146 165
22 Washington, District of Columbia 346 10 163 159
23 Calistoga, California 336 172 25 135
24 Dallas, Texas 332 26 142 152
25 San Antonio, Texas 275 16 132 113
26 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 273 23 90 135
27 Walla Walla, Washington 259 220 8 24
28 Doral, Florida 256 1 138 116
29 Louisville, Kentucky 252 10 60 141
30 Orlando, Florida 246 8 115 117
31 San Jose, California 238 14 82 137
32 ST. Helena, California 237 133 20 79
33 Sebastopol, California 220 118 15 83
34 Woodinville, Washington 212 155 16 30
35 Oakland, California 209 9 73 123
36 Charlotte, North Carolina 208 8 70 117
37 Lodi, California 207 113 19 70
38 Tampa, Florida 206 10 86 96
39 Phoenix, Arizona 203 2 82 107
40 Newberg, Oregon 198 102 12 78
41 Nashville, Tennessee 186 15 40 113
42 Buellton, California 182 141 11 28
43 American Canyon, California 181 30 58 91
44 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 178 22 50 89
45 Cincinnati, Ohio 171 29 49 73
46 Temecula, California 164 108 19 29
47 Baltimore, Maryland 163 17 54 80
48 Lompoc, California 162 114 8 37
49 San Juan, Puerto Rico 162 3 74 73
50 Indianapolis, Indiana 158 11 39 83

Counts use the city listed on each TTB permit. Wine-region cities rank high because wineries cluster around growing regions; distribution-hub cities rank high on importers and wholesalers.

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Source: TTB FOIA List of Permittees, published April 2025. City assignments use self-reported premises addresses. Federal permits reflect licensing, not operational status; confirm any record against the official TTB Public Permit Search.

Every figure on PlainAlcohol is rendered directly from federal TTB permit data, no number is typed in by an editor. This ranking is rendered directly from the TTB List of Permittees, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.