PRIMAVERA
Log inGet 300 free creditsNo credit card needed

How many Chinese restaurants are in the US?

By Louis-Marie Giudicenti. Published . Updated . Data read .

There are 33,799 Chinese restaurants on Google Maps in the US as of November 9, 2026, one for every 10,063 residents. No official statistic counts them: the Census counts restaurants by service, not by cuisine, 528,714 of them with paid employees in 2023, all cuisines together.

33,799
Chinese restaurants on Google Maps in the US
1.0
per 10,000 residentsone for every 10,063
4,513
in California, the most of any state
2.0
per 10,000 residents in New York, the most of any state

Source: Primavera’s database of Google Maps listings, snapshot 2026-11, read November 9, 2026. Population: Census 2024 estimates. See method.

Our count next to published figures

Chinese restaurants are part of the 1,007,973 restaurants Primavera counts on Google Maps, 3.4% of them: see how many restaurants are in the US.

Each source counts something different: Google Maps lists places, the Census counts businesses with or without paid staff, and federations count their members or their own definition. Here they are side by side.

Number of Chinese restaurants in the US: Primavera’s Google Maps count next to official figures
Source and what it countsYearNumber
Primavera, Google Maps listings: Chinese restaurants open on the map, service points left out202633,799
U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023: Full-service restaurants with paid employees, all cuisines together (NAICS 722511)2023258,626
U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023: Limited-service restaurants with paid employees, all cuisines together (NAICS 722513)2023270,088

Sources: No Census industry code counts this trade on its own. Census national files and federation pages read on November 9, 2026; Primavera, snapshot 2026-11.

Why the numbers differ

  • No cuisine in federal data. Federal statistics file restaurants as full-service or limited-service, never by cuisine: only listings or surveys can count Chinese restaurants.
  • Asian and buffet. Restaurants listed as “Asian restaurant”, “Pan-Asian” or “Buffet” are left out, even when they serve Chinese food.
  • Regional cuisines. Cantonese, Sichuan, Hunan, Shanghainese, dim sum and Chinese noodle restaurants, and Chinese take-out places, are in this count.
  • Dates. The Census figures describe 2023; this count, November 9, 2026.

Which state has the most Chinese restaurants?

California, with 4,513 listings, ahead of New York (3,965). Per resident, New York has the most: 2.0 per 10,000 residents, against 1.0 for the US.

Chinese restaurants per 10,000 residents, by state

Google Maps listings counted November 9, 2026. US: 1.0 per 10,000 residents.

Delaware: 147 Chinese restaurants, 1.4 per 10,000 residentsDE1.4District of Columbia: 116 Chinese restaurants, 1.7 per 10,000 residentsDC1.7Florida: 1,922 Chinese restaurants, 0.8 per 10,000 residentsFL0.8Georgia: 967 Chinese restaurants, 0.9 per 10,000 residentsGA0.9Hawaii: 195 Chinese restaurants, 1.3 per 10,000 residentsHI1.3Idaho: 125 Chinese restaurants, 0.6 per 10,000 residentsID0.6Illinois: 1,119 Chinese restaurants, 0.9 per 10,000 residentsIL0.9Indiana: 512 Chinese restaurants, 0.7 per 10,000 residentsIN0.7Iowa: 309 Chinese restaurants, 1.0 per 10,000 residentsIA1.0Kansas: 281 Chinese restaurants, 0.9 per 10,000 residentsKS0.9Kentucky: 309 Chinese restaurants, 0.7 per 10,000 residentsKY0.7Louisiana: 341 Chinese restaurants, 0.7 per 10,000 residentsLA0.7Maine: 144 Chinese restaurants, 1.0 per 10,000 residentsME1.0Maryland: 766 Chinese restaurants, 1.2 per 10,000 residentsMD1.2Massachusetts: 897 Chinese restaurants, 1.3 per 10,000 residentsMA1.3Michigan: 807 Chinese restaurants, 0.8 per 10,000 residentsMI0.8Minnesota: 459 Chinese restaurants, 0.8 per 10,000 residentsMN0.8Mississippi: 200 Chinese restaurants, 0.7 per 10,000 residentsMS0.7Missouri: 682 Chinese restaurants, 1.1 per 10,000 residentsMO1.1Montana: 86 Chinese restaurants, 0.8 per 10,000 residentsMT0.8Nebraska: 184 Chinese restaurants, 0.9 per 10,000 residentsNE0.9Nevada: 385 Chinese restaurants, 1.2 per 10,000 residentsNV1.2New Hampshire: 166 Chinese restaurants, 1.2 per 10,000 residentsNH1.2New Jersey: 1,525 Chinese restaurants, 1.6 per 10,000 residentsNJ1.6New Mexico: 157 Chinese restaurants, 0.7 per 10,000 residentsNM0.7New York: 3,965 Chinese restaurants, 2.0 per 10,000 residentsNY2.0North Carolina: 941 Chinese restaurants, 0.9 per 10,000 residentsNC0.9North Dakota: 39 Chinese restaurants, 0.5 per 10,000 residentsND0.5Ohio: 899 Chinese restaurants, 0.8 per 10,000 residentsOH0.8Oklahoma: 303 Chinese restaurants, 0.7 per 10,000 residentsOK0.7Oregon: 463 Chinese restaurants, 1.1 per 10,000 residentsOR1.1Pennsylvania: 1,729 Chinese restaurants, 1.3 per 10,000 residentsPA1.3Rhode Island: 138 Chinese restaurants, 1.2 per 10,000 residentsRI1.2South Carolina: 480 Chinese restaurants, 0.9 per 10,000 residentsSC0.9South Dakota: 50 Chinese restaurants, 0.5 per 10,000 residentsSD0.5Tennessee: 489 Chinese restaurants, 0.7 per 10,000 residentsTN0.7Texas: 2,241 Chinese restaurants, 0.7 per 10,000 residentsTX0.7Utah: 279 Chinese restaurants, 0.8 per 10,000 residentsUT0.8Vermont: 74 Chinese restaurants, 1.1 per 10,000 residentsVT1.1Virginia: 957 Chinese restaurants, 1.1 per 10,000 residentsVA1.1Washington: 694 Chinese restaurants, 0.9 per 10,000 residentsWA0.9West Virginia: 128 Chinese restaurants, 0.7 per 10,000 residentsWV0.7Wisconsin: 454 Chinese restaurants, 0.8 per 10,000 residentsWI0.8Wyoming: 45 Chinese restaurants, 0.8 per 10,000 residentsWY0.8Alaska: 58 Chinese restaurants, 0.8 per 10,000 residentsAK0.8Connecticut: 511 Chinese restaurants, 1.4 per 10,000 residentsCT1.4California: 4,513 Chinese restaurants, 1.1 per 10,000 residentsCA1.1Colorado: 478 Chinese restaurants, 0.8 per 10,000 residentsCO0.8Arizona: 455 Chinese restaurants, 0.6 per 10,000 residentsAZ0.6Arkansas: 202 Chinese restaurants, 0.7 per 10,000 residentsAR0.7Alabama: 403 Chinese restaurants, 0.8 per 10,000 residentsAL0.8
  • 0.5–0.7
  • 0.8
  • 0.9
  • 1.0–1.2
  • 1.3–2.0

Each square is a state, placed roughly where it is on a map. Darker means more per resident.

US states ranked by Chinese restaurants per 10,000 residents, with the number of Chinese restaurants and its rank
#StateChinese restaurantsRank by numberPer 10,000 residentsvs US
1New York3,96522.0+1.0
2District of Columbia116451.7+0.7
3New Jersey1,52561.6+0.6
4Delaware147401.4+0.4
5Connecticut511181.4+0.4
6Hawaii195361.3+0.3
7Pennsylvania1,72951.3+0.3
8Massachusetts897121.3+0.3
9Rhode Island138421.2+0.2
10Maryland766141.2+0.2
11Nevada385271.2+0.2
12New Hampshire166381.2+0.2
13California4,51311.1+0.1
14Vermont74471.1+0.1
15Missouri682161.1+0.1
16Virginia95791.1+0.1
17Oregon463221.1+0.1
18Maine144411.00.0
19Iowa309291.00.0
20Kansas281320.9−0.1
21Nebraska184370.9−0.1
22Illinois1,11970.9−0.1
23South Carolina480200.9−0.1
24Washington694150.9−0.1
25Georgia96780.9−0.1
26North Carolina941100.9−0.1
27Florida1,92240.8−0.2
28Colorado478210.8−0.2
29Utah279330.8−0.2
30Michigan807130.8−0.2
31Minnesota459230.8−0.2
32Alaska58480.8−0.2
33Alabama403260.8−0.2
34Wyoming45500.8−0.2
35Wisconsin454250.8−0.2
36Ohio899110.8−0.2
37Montana86460.8−0.2
38Louisiana341280.7−0.3
39Oklahoma303310.7−0.3
40Indiana512170.7−0.3
41New Mexico157390.7−0.3
42West Virginia128430.7−0.3
43Texas2,24130.7−0.3
44Mississippi200350.7−0.3
45Tennessee489190.7−0.3
46Kentucky309300.7−0.3
47Arkansas202340.7−0.3
48Idaho125440.6−0.4
49Arizona455240.6−0.4
50South Dakota50490.5−0.5
51North Dakota39510.5−0.5

US: 1.0 per 10,000 residents

In number, California (4,513), New York (3,965) and Texas (2,241) lead. Per resident, New York has 4.1 times as many Chinese restaurants as North Dakota, the lowest.

Source: Primavera, snapshot 2026-11, read November 9, 2026. 10 Chinese restaurants without a public address could not be placed in a state and are only in the US total.

How Chinese restaurants show up online

Chinese restaurants in the United States, by kind of contact listed

Share of all 33,799 listings.

Website link67.3%
Phone number95.0%
Email address24.7%
Chinese restaurants next to all US businesses: website builders, links, ad tags, ratings and chains
MeasureChinese restaurantsAll US businesses
Websites read14,53812,846,647
Built with WordPress15.2%29.2%
Built with Wix5.6%7.1%
Built with Squarespace2.6%5.6%
Site links to Instagram14.9%35.1%
Site links to Facebook20.9%45.2%
Meta Pixel or other Meta script3.9%8.8%
Google Ads tag5.2%6.1%
Average Google rating4.024.44
Rated under 4 stars36.7%17.4%
Median Google reviews21511
Part of a chain5.8%7.9%

Chinese restaurants are reached by phone more than online: 95.0% show a phone number, against 78.5% of all US businesses, and 24.7% have an email address in Primavera.

Note: Builders, links and tags are shares of the websites Primavera could read (14,538 for Chinese restaurants), social pages and booking platforms excluded. The Meta figure is an upper bound: Meta’s like buttons and chat load the same script as its ad pixel. Sites made with GoDaddy, Weebly or Duda are counted under none of these builders. Ratings: listings with at least one review.

Which chains have the most Chinese restaurants?

Chinese restaurants are mostly family businesses: 5.8% of listings belong to a chain our rules recognize, most of them Panda Express.

Chains with the most Chinese restaurants listings on Google Maps in the US
ChainListingsShare of Chinese restaurants
Panda Express1,3834.1%
P.F. Chang’s2070.6%
Pei Wei1450.4%
Pick Up Stix410.1%
Leeann Chin370.1%

What these figures don’t say

  • Who owns a restaurant, or which region of China its cooks come from.
  • Restaurants listed as Asian, Pan-Asian or buffet, which are left out.
  • Chinese counters inside grocery stores or food courts with no listing of their own.
  • How many companies own these places. A company with several locations counts once per listing.

Questions

Which state has the most Chinese restaurants?

California, with 4,513 listings, ahead of New York (3,965). Per resident, New York has the most: 2.0 per 10,000 residents, against 1.0 for the US.

What share of US restaurants are Chinese?

3.4% of the 1,007,973 restaurants Primavera counts on Google Maps are Chinese restaurants (November 9, 2026). Restaurants listed only as Asian or buffet would add to that.

Which Chinese restaurant chain is the largest?

Panda Express, with 1,383 listings in Primavera’s count, far ahead of P.F. Chang’s (207) and Pei Wei (145).

Method and data

Snapshot 2026-11, read November 9, 2026
What is counted
Open listings on Google Maps in the United States whose main Google category is one of the categories below, or whose main category is generic and another of its categories is: 33,799 listings, counted on October 29, 2026 and read on November 9, 2026. Service points (lockers, charging stations) are left out.
Categories
10 Google Maps categories: Chinese restaurant, Chinese takeaway, Delivery Chinese restaurant, Chinese noodle restaurant, Cantonese restaurant, Sichuan restaurant, Hunan restaurant, Shanghainese restaurant, Dim sum restaurant, Hong Kong style fast food restaurant.
Per resident
Listings for 10,000 residents, with each state’s population from the Census 2024 estimates. States are ranked on the exact ratio.
Official figures
Census County Business Patterns 2023, read on November 9, 2026; federation and agency pages read the same day. Links are in the table above.
Chains
A listing belongs to a chain when its name starts with the chain’s name and its website matches. Agents or franchisees who put their own name first are not tied to the chain.
Cite and download
Louis-Marie Giudicenti (2026). “How many Chinese restaurants are in the US?” Primavera. Data: snapshot 2026-11, November 9, 2026. https://primaverapp.com/en/data/chinese-restaurants-in-the-us

Permanent link: https://primaverapp.com/en/data/chinese-restaurants-in-the-us

Download: states (CSV), map (SVG)

Free to reuse under the CC BY 4.0 license, with a link to this page.

More on how the database is built: all trade counts and how Primavera builds its data.

Written by Louis-Marie Giudicenti

Founder of Primavera. Primavera sells lists of local businesses built from the same database.

Published
Updated

Open the search

The Chinese restaurants search from this page, ready to open in Primavera. Narrow it to a state or a city once it is open:

Target
Chinese restaurants
Location
United States
33,799businessesPreview leads

Free, no account needed. Contact details stay hidden until you create a list. 300 free credits when you sign up.