Vending Machine Locations in West Virginia, by the Numbers

A dense ring of map pins crowded around one empty central area that holds no pins — Pins crowded all the way around one area that holds none. AI-generated image

West Virginia holds no signed placement and sits inside the densest ring in the record: 17 placements in its five bordering states, all five represented, and 12 of the 17 convertible into visitor-hours. The nearest is across the Ohio River.

Figures below come from the 87 signed listings open on PinPoint Vending’s marketplace on October 5, 2026, covering 29 states. Traffic is venue-reported and unaudited; no listing reports sales.

By the numbers

Measure	West Virginia
Signed placements	0
States with none	21 of 50
Placements in bordering states	17 — the most of any empty state
Bordering states holding at least one	5 of 5
Convertible into visitor-hours	12 of the 17
Median share next door	40% of net

What surrounds West Virginia

Five states, seventeen placements, and no gap in the ring.

Bordering state	Placements	Shares agreed
Ohio	7	40% ×5, 50%, one not stated
Kentucky	4	40% ×4
Pennsylvania	3	40% ×2, 30%
Virginia	2	40%, 30%
Maryland	1	40%

No other empty state is bordered on every side by a state with a placement at this count. Indiana comes closest with 16 across four neighbours; Iowa and Vermont hold 10 each; Oregon has 8 with the nearest roughly 600 miles away; Montana, Wyoming, Utah and the Dakotas have none at all.

The nearest placements are across a river, not across a region

Distance is what separates West Virginia from the other empty states. Two of the seventeen are closer to a West Virginia town than many in-state venues are to each other.

Nearest signed venue	Distance	Reports a count?	Convertible?
Toronto, Ohio — bowling alley	Across the Ohio River	Yes, 210 a day	Yes, 567 visitor-hours
Pikeville, Kentucky — trampoline park	About 25 miles	Yes, 88 a day	Yes, 132
Barnesville, Ohio — bowling alley	About 25 miles	Yes, 55 a day	Yes, 148
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — bowling alley	About 60 miles	Yes, 270 a day	Yes, 729
Shenandoah, Virginia — bowling alley	About 60 miles	Yes, 82 a day	Yes, 221

Compare that with Vermont, whose nearest placement is seventy miles away and sits in a category of one with no published visit length, so it cannot be ranked at all. A West Virginia reader gets a rankable bowling alley within a few miles of the state line and three more inside an hour.

Twelve of the seventeen convert

Converting footfall into captive time needs a reported visitor count and a published average visit length for the venue type, and only five of the 26 types in this record carry the second. The West Virginia neighbourhood is unusually well stocked with those five.

Why a neighbouring listing cannot be ranked	How many of the 17
Convertible — count reported, visit length published	12
No published visit length (arcade, gymnastics gym, ice rink, amusement park)	4
No visitor count reported	1

Twelve of seventeen is better than the record as a whole manages: across all 87 placements, only 43 carry a count, a stated share and a measurable venue type together. The method behind the conversion is in our ranking of vending locations.

The range those twelve produce is wide and honest — from 28 visitor-hours a day at a Bowling Green playground to 729 at a Pittsburgh bowling alley — which gives a West Virginia venue a real distribution to sit inside rather than a single borrowed number.

What the neighbourhood settles, and what it does not

The share, decisively. Sixteen of the seventeen state a figure, and the median is 40% of net — the national median exactly.

Share	Among the 17 next door	Nationally
30% of net	2	11 of 81
40% of net	13	55 of 81
50% of net	1	12 of 81

What the neighbourhood does not settle is what a West Virginia venue is worth. Traffic in that ring runs from 19 visitors a day to 990, and the two 30% deals went to a premium Pittsburgh bowling alley and a quiet Virginia one — so size does not predict the percentage in either direction. What the revenue-share data shows across all 87 placements runs the full test.

How West Virginia compares with the other empty states

Best on adjacency, modest on size.

Empty state	Placements next door	Nearest placement
West Virginia	17	Across a river
Indiana	16	Short
Iowa	10	Moderate
Vermont	10	About 70 miles, unrankable
Oregon	8	About 600 miles
Wyoming, Montana, Utah, the Dakotas	0	Two states away

On Census Bureau estimates West Virginia is among the least populous states, so an empty row is closer to what population predicts than it is for Indiana, Minnesota, Arizona or Colorado — all populous, all inside the locator’s stated coverage, all absent. Alaska and Hawaii are the only states excluded from that coverage.

What a first West Virginia placement would settle

Whether the ring extends inward. Every category that dominates the record — bowling alleys, indoor playgrounds, family entertainment centres, trampoline parks — already has a signed venue within an hour of a West Virginia border, which makes the empty row look like a routing gap rather than a market one.

A single Charleston, Huntington or Morgantown listing in any of those four would convert immediately, because all four carry a published visit length. Beyond the West Virginia row, vending machine locations by state shows where each state stands.

Frequently asked questions

How many vending machine placements does West Virginia have?

None. West Virginia 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?

Seventeen — seven in Ohio, four in Kentucky, three in Pennsylvania, two in Virginia and one in Maryland. That is the most of any empty state, and all five neighbours are represented.

Where is the nearest one?

Toronto, Ohio, directly across the Ohio River from the northern panhandle. It is a bowling alley reporting 210 visitors a day at 40% of net.

How much of that neighbourhood can be ranked?

Twelve of the seventeen convert into visitor-hours, because they report a count and sit in one of the five venue types with a published visit length.

What does the neighbourhood settle?

The share. Sixteen of the seventeen state a figure and the median is 40% of net, which matches the national median exactly.

Next step

Use the border rather than a national average when weighing a West Virginia venue, because twelve rankable placements sit within an hour of the state line and the closest is directly across a river. Then take 40% of net as the reference point, since thirteen of the seventeen neighbouring venues agreed exactly that.