# Vending machine locations in Vermont: near but unusable

> Proximity is not the same as usefulness. Vermont's closest comparison is a category of one, with no visit length and nothing to rank it against.

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- Publication: Dwell Time (https://vendingmachineslocations.com/)
- By: Dwell Time Data Desk
- Edited by: Max Zulsky, Editor, Dwell Time (https://vendingmachineslocations.com/authors/max-zulsky/)
- Published: 2026-10-07

Vermont's three neighbours hold **ten** placements between them — the joint most of any empty state — and the nearest of them, about **seventy miles** from Burlington, is the **only venue of its type** in the whole record. Proximity and usefulness are not the same thing.

Figures below come from the 87 signed listings open on [PinPoint Vending's marketplace](https://pinpoint-vending.com/marketplace) on October 5, 2026, covering 29 states. Traffic is venue-reported and unaudited; no listing reports sales.

**By the numbers**

| Measure | Vermont |
|---|---:|
| Signed placements | 0 |
| States with none | 21 of 50 |
| Placements in bordering states | 10 |
| Nearest placement | about 70 miles |
| Nearest convertible placement | about 170 miles |
| National median share | 40% of net |

## What is near, and how usable it is

Three bordering states, ten placements, and a sharp drop in usefulness with distance.

| Nearest signed venue | Distance from Burlington | Reports a count? | Convertible? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claremont, New Hampshire — indoor mini golf | about 70 miles | Yes, 210 a day | No |
| Manchester, New Hampshire — indoor playground | about 130 miles | No | No |
| Tyngsborough, Massachusetts — bowling alley | about 170 miles | Yes, 680 a day | Yes |
| Boston, Massachusetts — indoor playground | about 200 miles | No | No |
| New York's six | 250 miles and further | 3 of 6 | 1 of 6 |

So Vermont has a nearest placement at seventy miles that reports its traffic and cannot be ranked, a second at 130 miles that reports nothing, and a first convertible listing at 170 miles that is the most extreme venue in the entire dataset.

## Why Claremont cannot be ranked

Converting footfall into hours of exposure needs both a reported visitor count and a published average visit length for the Vermont venue type. Claremont has the first and not the second: **indoor mini golf appears exactly once in the record**, and the category has no published visit length.

| Venue types appearing once in the record | |
|---|---|
| Indoor mini golf | Claremont, New Hampshire |
| Mini golf | Portland, Maine |
| Ice rink | Export, Pennsylvania |
| Deli | Miami, Florida |
| Rage room, roller rink, kids centre, haunted attraction, indoor soccer, food service, campground | one each |

Eleven of the 26 venue types here are represented by a single listing, and for each of them a category median is just the listing again. The conversion method is set out in [our ranking of vending locations](https://vendingmachineslocations.com/best-vending-machine-locations/), and only five of the 26 types carry a published visit length at all.

So the nearest thing Vermont has to local evidence is a solid traffic figure — 210 visitors a day — with nothing in the dataset to measure it against.

## What the neighbourhood does settle

The share, and clearly. Both New Hampshire venues agreed **40% of net**, which is the median across the 81 placements stating a figure. Massachusetts's one stated share is 30%, at the dataset's highest-exposure venue, and New York's five run 30%, 30%, 40%, 40% and 50%.

| Bordering state | Placements | Shares |
|---|---:|---|
| New Hampshire | 2 | 40%, 40% |
| Massachusetts | 2 | 30%, and one stating none |
| New York | 6 | 50%, 40%, 40%, 30%, 30%, and one stating none |

Ten placements, and the median of the eight that state a figure is 40% — the same as the national median. That is the one number a Vermont reader can take from the neighbourhood with confidence.

## How Vermont compares with the other empty states

Well on adjacency, poorly on absolute size.

| Empty state | Placements in bordering states | Nearest placement |
|---|---:|---|
| West Virginia | 17 | Short |
| Indiana | 16 | Short |
| Iowa | 10 | Moderate |
| **Vermont** | **10** | **about 70 miles** |
| Oregon | 8 | about 600 miles |
| Montana, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Utah | 0 | Two states away |

On [Census Bureau estimates](https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2020s-state-total.html) Vermont is among the least populous states in the country, so an empty row is close to what population alone predicts — unlike Arizona, Minnesota, Indiana or Colorado, which are populous, inside the locator's stated coverage, and absent. Alaska and Hawaii alone come with a reason attached, being excluded from the stated coverage.

## What a first Vermont placement would settle

The first rankable venue in northern New England outside a metro. Maine's two listings include one unmeasurable mini golf course; New Hampshire's two cannot be converted at all; Vermont has none. Between the Canadian border and Massachusetts, the record contains **no convertible listing whatever**.

A single Burlington bowling alley or trampoline park would change that, because both categories carry a published visit length. Beyond the Vermont row, [what the revenue-share data shows across all 87 placements](https://vendingmachineslocations.com/vending-location-data-revenue-share/) has the rest of what the record settles, and [vending machine locations by state](https://vendingmachineslocations.com/vending-locations-by-state/) shows where each state stands.

## Frequently asked questions

### How many vending machine placements does Vermont have?

None. Vermont is one of 21 states with no signed venue in the record collected on October 5, 2026, which covers 87 placements across 29 states.

### How many do its neighbours hold?

Ten — two in New Hampshire, two in Massachusetts and six in New York. Only Iowa matches that among the empty states.

### Where is the nearest one?

Claremont, New Hampshire, about seventy miles from Burlington. It is the only indoor mini golf course in the entire record.

### Why does that matter?

Because a category of one has no median to compare against and indoor mini golf has no published visit length, so the nearest listing to Vermont cannot be ranked at all.

### What can a Vermont reader use?

The share. Both New Hampshire venues agreed 40% of net, which matches the national median across the 81 placements that state a figure.

## Next step

Judge a neighbouring listing by whether it can be ranked, not by how close it is. Vermont's nearest placement is seventy miles away, reports its traffic, and sits in a category of one with no visit length — so the usable figure from the whole neighbourhood is the 40% share that New Hampshire's two venues agreed, and nothing about venue size at all.

## Sources

- [State population estimates, U.S. Census Bureau](https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2020s-state-total.html)
- [Retail food service establishments, Vermont Department of Health](https://www.healthvermont.gov/environment/food-lodging-program/retail-food-service-establishments)
- [Nationwide Vending Locators: service, fees and coverage pages, checked October 6, 2026](https://nationwidevendinglocators.com/)
- [PinPoint Vending: open marketplace listings, collected October 5, 2026](https://pinpoint-vending.com/marketplace)