THE NUMBERS
Inspection rankings, area by area.
Raw counts from official records, with the context you need to read them.
Read these with care. Health departments inspect on different schedules and by different rules, and bigger areas have more restaurants. A high closure count can mean strict enforcement as much as unsafe kitchens. This is not a safety ranking.
Most closure records, last six months
- 1New York City, NY27,351 restaurants on record295
- 2San Diego County, CA15,989 restaurants on record269
- 3Santa Clara County, CA9,720 restaurants on record214
- 4Sacramento County, CA6,254 restaurants on record68
- 5Miami-Dade County, FL5,978 restaurants on record61
- 6Duval County, FL1,902 restaurants on record51
- 7Palm Beach County, FL2,072 restaurants on record50
- 8Las Vegas, NV19,543 restaurants on record43
- 9Hillsborough County, FL2,491 restaurants on record42
- 10Broward County, FL3,242 restaurants on record37
- 11Orange County, FL3,146 restaurants on record34
- 12Pinellas County, FL1,737 restaurants on record33
- 13Arlington, TX2,067 restaurants on record25
- 14King County, WA12,489 restaurants on record20
- 15Toronto, ON18,411 restaurants on record19
Highest share with a clean latest inspection
- 1Oneida County, NY994 restaurants with violation records70%
- 2Sacramento County, CA6,254 restaurants with violation records65%
- 3Cayuga County, NY304 restaurants with violation records63%
- 4Montgomery County, MD12,702 restaurants with violation records61%
- 5Toronto, ON18,411 restaurants with violation records61%
- 6Oswego County, NY443 restaurants with violation records60%
- 7King County, WA12,489 restaurants with violation records59%
- 8Tompkins County, NY505 restaurants with violation records59%
- 9Marin County, CA1,244 restaurants with violation records57%
- 10Orange County, NY1,568 restaurants with violation records57%
- 11Clinton County, NY339 restaurants with violation records56%
- 12Niagara County, NY1,188 restaurants with violation records55%
- 13Okaloosa County, FL344 restaurants with violation records55%
- 14Chautauqua County, NY640 restaurants with violation records51%
- 15Escambia County, FL486 restaurants with violation records49%
Only areas that publish individual violations and have at least 300 restaurants are listed. “Clean” means no violations recorded at the latest inspection.
Rankings by state
Counts refresh every day from the departments’ own records. A closure record is a restaurant whose inspection was recorded as a closure in the past 180 days.