Do You Live Near More Bars, Or More Grocery Stores?

Do You Live Near More Bars, Or More Grocery Stores?

This design highlights how serious Wisconsin is about its drinking. Based on Google Places, the state has 2.7 times as many bars as grocery stores, even though grocery stores outnumber bars by 13 percent nationwide.

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Milwaukee

Rank: 26
Population: 593,545

Milwaukee’s got good air quality and better brews. In the 1970s, America met the fictitious "Shotz Brewery" of Laverne & Shirley. In real life, the Miller Brewing Co. maintains its regional headquarters in the hometown of the “Brew Crew,” the nickname for local major league baseball team the Milwaukee Brewers. With fewer than 600,000 residents, the city still boasts 390 bars, which is a lot per capita. And did we mention the sausages?

Bars: 390
Restaurants: 947
Museums: 20
Libraries: 30
Pro sports teams: 2
Park acres per 1,000 residents: 16 (countywide)
Colleges: 12
Percent with graduate degree: 5.4
Median household income: $44,113
Percent unemployed: 9.4

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2. Milwaukee

Perhaps it’s no surprise that Milwaukee ranks high on this list, given the many breweries that thrive in the area, including the big MillerCoors and microbreweries such as Sprecher. Its Major League Baseball team is even named the Brewers. The long presence of breweries in the area contributes to a strong drinking culture, Kolko said. The Milwaukee metropolitan area has 8.5 bars for every 10,000 households. The median list price of a home in the area is $109 per square foot.

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Milwaukee