All markets/Florida/Gainesville, FL254,000 adults 21+
Gainesville, FL leans toward bourbon, American dry gin and flavored gin.
Based on Iowa; its group checked in Pennsylvania. Compared with the 387 US metro areas.
How to read this
Each score: how closely Gainesville’s people match the Iowa counties where that drink’s sales make up a bigger share of spirits sales. Not a sales figure.
Each row ranks Gainesville, FL among 387 metros for one category. It does not compare categories with each other.
Beside each category is the Census measure the model leans on most for it here.
Each category’s standing comes from a model fitted to Iowa county sales on public Census measures only, checked in Pennsylvania for its group; only the 8 spirits groups and the 24 subcategories that passed are ranked.
An association between places, not a cause or a sales forecast.
The whole book: 32 ranked categories
Show all 32Show the top 8 and bottom 3
Each dot is where Gainesville ranks among the 387 metros for that category, on the scale printed above its block. Point at a row to see it on the map; click to read it.Tap a row to read it.
Who lives here
The usual metro = the middle of the 387 US metro areas.
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Leans in
Tied with: Vodka
Leans away from
- Spiced RumFewer homeowners than the usual metro: 59.3% against 67.6%.321stof 387 metros
- Flavored RumMore professional jobs than the usual metro: 48.2% against 39.0%.313thof 387 metros
- Canadian WhiskyMore unequal incomes than the usual metro: 0.512 against 0.458.303rdof 387 metros
Gainesville, FL on the map
Gainesville, FL among the 387 US metro areas.
Did you know?
14thof 387 metrosGainesville, FL is among the 14 metros where college students are most common: 17.5% here, usual 5.9%.
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What this rests on
County sales by category in Iowa (99 counties, Oct 2025 to Sep 2026), checked in Pennsylvania (67 counties, Jul 2024 to Jun 2025), plus Census ACS 2024 5-year. An association between places, not a cause or a sales forecast.