Alkoholausgaben pro Kopf, nach US-Bundesstaat
Von Hailuras
Alkoholausgaben pro Kopf, nach US-Bundesstaat
Von Hailuras
21 Kommentare
I’m curious what the median spending would be
Need to compare this to the cost of alcohol as well. Some of these states have state run liquor stores where the price for alcohol is considerably higher. And does this take into account tax rates?
The differences in cost state by state are going to have a significant impact. I live in wisconsin and alcohol here is very cheap compared to alot of states. I took a trip to Washington state last year and paid almost twice as much for the same alcohol I would buy at home.
Wisconsin being relatively low makes me question this map
I used to spend like 1/3 of my income on booze and drugs.
Spending per capita is not nearly as useful as consumption per capita
A lot of Utah residents go to Wyoming or Nevada for big alcohol purchases for parties and such because of the price difference. Yes it’s technically illegal to bring it back into Utah but I’ve never actually heard of that being enforced. Utah tax on alcohol is absurd , it adds up on big purchases.
Who knew being Mormon could save you so much money.
Seems like the fine print says „off-premesis“ as in to-go or retail sales.
Drinking all night at a bar contributes $0 to the plotted numbers.
That’s a lot. I don’t know anyone that spends $1k a year on alcohol much less every person in the state🤔
Why are wyoming and colorado different colors?
Alaskan here. I can confirm. We love our booze. Ive seen people from ages 7-95 drinking liqour.
In highschool a solid ammount of us had vodka in a waterbottle or whiskey in a tea bottle.
I bet Colorado is high because of all the craft beer and fancy IPAs that cost almost as much as cocktails
How much does tourism affect these numbers. High tourism states will have higher alcohol consumption than lower tourism states.
Now do meth. Overlap will be interesting.
Alcohol must be cheap in Wisconsin.
Okay, but if I spend the same amount and go for quality over quantity, then I’m not getting as drunk.
I was surprised by WV, so I found [this](https://www.geocurrents.info/blog/2024/04/13/alcohol-religiosity-in-the-united-states-and-the-west-virginia-exception/) interesting article on it.
In a word: moonshine.
Pretty inaccurate, seems like this is more reflective of how much money people spend at bars.
Virginia has the highest per bottle cost of the most common bottles on America, more than Hawaii or Alaska. Many states have communist retail liquor stores but we have the only state run distribution. The built in profit margin, plus very high tax, fuck us.
On the flip side, the distilleries generally give preference to accounts based on size and age. No account is larger, or usually older, than Virginias. This means when a restaurant called their designated ABC store, they ran it up the chain and made requests to distillers on this account. Rare bottles of Bourbon would get fufilled with ease, and whatever bottles (or cases) the requesting restraunt did not want would end up on the shelf of their designated ABC store, using this same cost+operating%+profit%+tax%, which was well below market rate. For year this meant you could walk into a random ABC and see $300, $400, or even $1,000 of bourbon on the shelf for fractions of their market value. Some intrepid VA ABC employee(s) figured this out, and began selling information via a facebook group for $50/month.
Holy moly. That’s sad.