# Vending machine locations in Wyoming, by the numbers

> Seven states, roughly 16 million people, not one signed venue between them. Wyoming sits in the middle of the largest blank area in the record.

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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

Wyoming holds **no** signed placement, and neither does any of its **six** bordering states. The nearest is roughly **450 miles** away and sits in a category of one, so it cannot be ranked. Wyoming and the six states around it hold about **16 million people** and **zero** signed venues.

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 | Wyoming |
|---|---:|
| Signed placements | 0 |
| States with none | 21 of 50 |
| Bordering states | 6 |
| Placements in bordering states | 0 |
| Nearest placement | about 450 miles |
| Nearest rankable placement | about 550 miles |

## What surrounds Wyoming

Six states, and not a single signed venue in any of them.

| Bordering state | Placements |
|---|---:|
| Montana | 0 |
| South Dakota | 0 |
| Nebraska | 0 |
| Colorado | 0 |
| Utah | 0 |
| Idaho | 0 |

Colorado is the striking row. It is among the twenty most populous states on [Census Bureau estimates](https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2020s-state-total.html), inside the locator's stated coverage of every state but Alaska and Hawaii, and holds nothing — so a Wyoming venue cannot even borrow a Denver comparison.

## Five states have no placed neighbour, and Wyoming is one

Most empty states can point across a line at somebody. West Virginia has 17 placements next door, Indiana 16, Iowa and Vermont 10 each. Five states have none at all.

| Empty state | Bordering states | Placements next door |
|---|---:|---:|
| Montana | 4 | 0 |
| **Wyoming** | **6** | **0** |
| Utah | 6 | 0 |
| North Dakota | 3 | 0 |
| South Dakota | 6 | 0 |

The five form one continuous blank area through the northern Rockies and the plains, and Wyoming sits in the middle of it. That is a routing pattern rather than a market verdict: the record's 87 placements cluster in the Midwest, the South and the two coasts, and nothing in the file suggests a Wyoming venue was approached and declined.

## The nearest placement cannot be ranked either

Converting footfall into captive time needs a reported visitor count and a published average visit length for the venue type. The nearest listing to Wyoming has the first and not the second.

| Nearest signed venue | Distance from Cheyenne | Reports a count? | Convertible? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Bend, Kansas — roller rink | about 450 miles | Yes, 96 a day | No |
| Lawrence, Kansas — family entertainment centre | about 550 miles | Yes, 160 a day | Yes, about 400 visitor-hours |
| Amarillo, Texas — hotel | about 570 miles | Yes, 270 a day | No |
| California's seven | more than 1,000 miles | 4 of 7 | 2 of 7 |

**Roller rinks appear exactly once** in the record, which also means there is no category median to measure Great Bend against — eleven of the 26 venue types here are single listings, and for each of them a category average 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 closest usable comparison to Wyoming is 550 miles away in Lawrence, and it comes with a complication: Lawrence agreed **50% of net**, one of only twelve placements in the file at that level. A Wyoming reader taking the nearest rankable venue as a benchmark would be taking an unusually expensive one.

## What the record offers a Wyoming reader instead

The national distribution, used honestly. With no state row and no regional row, the only defensible references are the file-wide figures.

| Reference | Value |
|---|---:|
| Placements stating a share | 81 of 87 |
| Median share | 40% of net |
| At 40% | 55 |
| At 30% | 11 |
| At 50% | 12, nearly all pass-through venues |
| Minimum term, everywhere | 16 months |

Forty per cent is the number that travels. What does not travel is venue scale: traffic across the 69 placements that report a count runs from 3 visitors a day to 1,100, and no state average in this file is built from enough rows to be worth quoting at a Wyoming venue. [What the revenue-share data shows across all 87 placements](https://vendingmachineslocations.com/vending-location-data-revenue-share/) is the fuller version.

## What a first Wyoming placement would settle

Whether the blank area is a routing gap or a venue-supply one. Wyoming is the least populous state, so part of the answer is arithmetic — but Montana, Utah and the Dakotas are empty too, and together with Wyoming they cover a quarter of the land area of the lower 48 with no signed venue in it.

A single Cheyenne or Casper bowling alley would convert immediately, because bowling alleys carry a published visit length and are the deepest category in the file at 18 listings. One rankable row in this blank area would do more for a reader here than any national median does, and [vending machine locations by state](https://vendingmachineslocations.com/vending-locations-by-state/) shows where every state currently stands.

## Frequently asked questions

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

None. Wyoming 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?

None. Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah and Idaho are all empty, which makes Wyoming one of five states where every bordering state is also empty.

### Where is the nearest placement?

Great Bend, Kansas, roughly 450 miles from Cheyenne. It is a roller rink — one of the eleven categories represented by a single listing — and it cannot be converted into visitor-hours.

### What is the nearest rankable placement?

A family entertainment centre in Lawrence, Kansas, about 550 miles away, reporting 160 visitors a day. It is also one of the twelve placements nationally that agreed 50% of net.

### Does population explain the empty row?

Largely. Wyoming is the least populous state, so an absent row is closer to what population predicts than it is for Arizona, Minnesota or Colorado — all populous, all inside the locator's stated coverage, all absent.

## Next step

Use the national median rather than a neighbouring state when weighing a Wyoming venue, because all six of its neighbours are empty and the nearest listing is 450 miles away in a category that cannot be ranked. Then discount the 50% figure from Lawrence: it is the closest rankable venue and one of only twelve placements at that share.

## Sources

- [State population estimates, U.S. Census Bureau](https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2020s-state-total.html)
- [Sports and Exercise, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2017 spotlight, 2009–15 data)](https://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2017/sports-and-exercise/home.htm)
- [Consumer Health Services, Wyoming Department of Agriculture](https://agriculture.wy.gov/chs-information)
- [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)