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Cognac and imported brandy takes a bigger share of spirits sales where professional jobs are least common.
Solid: seen across Iowa’s 99 counties; brandy checked in Pennsylvania’s 67.
How to read this
Ranked by how closely each place’s people match the Iowa counties where Cognac and imported brandy sales make up a bigger share of spirits sales. Not a sales figure.
Places: Based on Iowa; its group checked in Pennsylvania.
A hollow dot on the map is a place unlike any Iowa county; its rank is a best estimate.
An association between places, not a cause or a sales forecast.
Professional jobs
Cognac and imported brandy takes a bigger share of spirits sales where professional jobs are least common. This shows once county size and density are allowed for, so there is no simple dollar picture.
Other people Cognac and imported brandy goes with, and against
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Where Cognac and imported brandy fits, of the 44 US metro areas with 1M+ adults 21+
Most of these metros are unlike any Iowa county; read the order as a rough guide.
- 1Los Angeles, CA1st of 44 large metros
- 2New York, NY2nd of 44 large metros
- 3Milwaukee, WI3rd of 44 large metros
- 4Miami, FL4th of 44 large metros
- 5San Francisco, CA5th of 44 large metros
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Did you know?
$7.9M$7.9M of Cognac and imported brandy sold in Iowa in 12 months (Oct 2025 to Sep 2026).
Brandy’s $2.82 of every $100
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What this means for you
Supplier
The top-ranked large metros, with their professional jobs against the usual metro (39.0%): Los Angeles 43.2%, New York 47.9%, Milwaukee 44.3%.
Distributor
The ranked markets are those whose people look most like the Iowa counties where Cognac and imported brandy sales make up more of brandy sales. Iowa sales only; an association between places, not a cause or a sales forecast.
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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.
How the dollars are made: the category’s share of spirits dollars in the Iowa counties that hold the top quarter and the bottom quarter of adults on a measure, written as dollars of every $100.