Vending machine locations in Washington, by the numbers

What is on the record for Washington

A single standard-tier venue in the arid southeast of the state, signed in the third week of July 2026.

Nothing is withheld in that row, which is less common than it reads: 69 of the 87 placements report a visitor count and 81 state a share, so an eighth of the file is missing traffic and a fourteenth is missing a price.

A one-row record that still converts

Kennewick works out to roughly 210 visitor-hours a day — 140 visitors at the 1.5-hour visit length used for indoor playgrounds — against a category median of 164 across the eleven playgrounds that report a count.

Kennewick ranks joint fourth of the eleven, so Washington’s lone venue sits in the upper half of its own category rather than at either extreme. The arithmetic behind the conversion is in our ranking of vending locations, which also explains why indoor playgrounds rank fourth of the four measurable types: a short visit length caps the exposure a busy room can produce.

Its 40% is the national median exactly. So the whole Washington record amounts to one honest, mid-category, median-priced listing — which is a better basis for comparison than several incomplete ones.

The indoor playground is how a state gets its first listing

Eight states in this record hold exactly one placement, and four of those eight are indoor playgrounds — Alabama, Maryland, Oklahoma and Washington, each at 40% of net.

Six of the eight convert, and the two that do not fail for different reasons — Missouri reports no count, North Carolina sits in a category with no published visit length. A reader comparing thin state records should notice that a single listing is not automatically useless; what makes it useless is a missing field or an unmeasurable category.

Washington’s row is the fifth-busiest of those eight and one of the six usable ones, which is a respectable position for a state with one machine on the board.

Washington is one of two western states with anything at all

Every state between the Rockies and the Pacific is empty except California and Washington. Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico hold no placements between them.

Two consequences follow for a Washington reader. The nearest placement outside the state is in northern California, more than 700 miles from Kennewick, so there is no regional comparison to fall back on — and inside Washington the one listing sits about 200 miles from Seattle, on the dry side of the Cascades, so it is not a Puget Sound benchmark either.

Alaska and Hawaii are the only states excluded from the locator’s stated coverage. The rest of this empty western block is inside it and unplaced, which vending machine locations by state sets out state by state.

What a second Washington placement would settle

Whether the Puget Sound metros price differently from the Columbia Basin. On Census Bureau estimates Washington is among the fifteen most populous states, and the record holds one venue in a city of about 85,000 — so the state’s entire evidence base comes from outside its population centre.

A Seattle, Tacoma or Spokane listing in any of the three deep categories — bowling alley, family entertainment centre or trampoline park — would give Washington a second rankable row and a real in-state range. Until then, what the revenue-share data shows across all 87 placements is the wider context for a single 40% data point.