Salvage Yards by State: Count and Per Capita
Updated October 2026. Sources and methods.
This directory lists 6,016 auto salvage yards and 2,181 scrap yards. Wyoming has the most salvage yards per resident (3.9 per 100,000), and District of Columbia has the fewest (0.4).
Counts come from Overture Maps open places data, filtered and deduplicated by hand rules, with services confirmed from each yard's own website. Population is the Census Bureau's 2024 estimate. Reporters and researchers may use these figures with a link to this page as the source.
Salvage and scrap yards by state, ranked by salvage yards per 100,000 residents
| State | Salvage yards | Per 100,000 residents | Self-service yards | Yards that buy junk cars | Scrap yards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | 23 | 3.9 | 0 | 7 | 9 |
| Arkansas | 100 | 3.2 | 9 | 7 | 38 |
| New Hampshire | 42 | 3.0 | 2 | 6 | 10 |
| Oklahoma | 120 | 2.9 | 11 | 16 | 36 |
| Iowa | 89 | 2.7 | 2 | 14 | 39 |
| Maine | 38 | 2.7 | 2 | 5 | 12 |
| Kansas | 77 | 2.6 | 5 | 10 | 31 |
| Wisconsin | 150 | 2.5 | 6 | 35 | 55 |
| West Virginia | 44 | 2.5 | 0 | 5 | 16 |
| Missouri | 154 | 2.5 | 12 | 17 | 74 |
| Mississippi | 72 | 2.4 | 5 | 5 | 25 |
| Pennsylvania | 314 | 2.4 | 17 | 58 | 101 |
| Montana | 27 | 2.4 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| Kentucky | 105 | 2.3 | 7 | 18 | 32 |
| Ohio | 269 | 2.3 | 15 | 39 | 100 |
| Oregon | 92 | 2.2 | 13 | 20 | 19 |
| Idaho | 43 | 2.1 | 12 | 8 | 14 |
| Indiana | 146 | 2.1 | 12 | 27 | 53 |
| Michigan | 211 | 2.1 | 19 | 46 | 75 |
| Tennessee | 150 | 2.1 | 15 | 22 | 60 |
| Rhode Island | 23 | 2.1 | 2 | 4 | 12 |
| South Dakota | 19 | 2.1 | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| North Carolina | 226 | 2.0 | 27 | 50 | 57 |
| Nebraska | 41 | 2.0 | 5 | 8 | 17 |
| Louisiana | 89 | 1.9 | 11 | 14 | 31 |
| Florida | 434 | 1.9 | 43 | 110 | 145 |
| Alabama | 91 | 1.8 | 6 | 16 | 42 |
| Minnesota | 102 | 1.8 | 6 | 20 | 41 |
| Vermont | 11 | 1.7 | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| Texas | 511 | 1.6 | 51 | 61 | 235 |
| California | 632 | 1.6 | 76 | 75 | 140 |
| Georgia | 178 | 1.6 | 17 | 34 | 48 |
| Massachusetts | 113 | 1.6 | 8 | 18 | 33 |
| North Dakota | 12 | 1.5 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| New Jersey | 143 | 1.5 | 5 | 31 | 51 |
| New Mexico | 32 | 1.5 | 2 | 7 | 15 |
| Washington | 118 | 1.5 | 19 | 18 | 27 |
| Virginia | 120 | 1.4 | 11 | 23 | 49 |
| Delaware | 14 | 1.3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Colorado | 78 | 1.3 | 11 | 21 | 25 |
| Connecticut | 48 | 1.3 | 0 | 14 | 23 |
| Illinois | 166 | 1.3 | 16 | 43 | 113 |
| South Carolina | 71 | 1.3 | 10 | 13 | 35 |
| Arizona | 95 | 1.3 | 10 | 14 | 38 |
| Alaska | 9 | 1.2 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Maryland | 73 | 1.2 | 12 | 26 | 30 |
| New York | 229 | 1.2 | 13 | 52 | 99 |
| Utah | 32 | 0.9 | 9 | 11 | 13 |
| Nevada | 28 | 0.9 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| Hawaii | 9 | 0.6 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| District of Columbia | 3 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Cite as: Salvage Yard Map, "Salvage Yards by State: Count and Per Capita," October 2026, https://salvageyardmap.com/reports/salvage-yards-by-state/. Licensed CC BY 4.0.