The 25 Busiest Trader Joe’s in America, Ranked by Visits

If you’ve ever been in a Trader Joe’s in the evening or seemingly anytime on a weekend, you know they can be a mad house. And for good reason! They have great, healthy options at fantastic prices. So we took a look at the visit data of 550 Trader Joe’s locations to see which ones were really the busiest.

How busy are we talking? The typical Trader Joe’s gets 806,118 visits a year. That’s 2,227 visits for every day the store is open. Every store on this list gets at least 1.5 times that.

How We Measured This

All of the stores were measured during the same period of time, from November 1, 2025 to October 31, 2026 using de-identified location data. Foot traffic refers to the number of visits to the location (not transactions).

We analyzed additional granular data points to check the rankings, including foot traffic patterns by time of day and day of the week, visit duration, where shoppers come from, and notable foot traffic surges during the measurement period.

This ranking includes 550 stores across 42 states and Washington, D.C. Most Trader Joe’s locations in New York City (with the exception of Manhattan, which is included in its own ranking, more on that later) and the Trader Joe’s locations in Philadelphia are not individually identified in the data and are, therefore, not included in this ranking.

No. 25 to No. 21

The bottom five are separated by fewer than 30,000 visits a year. In Annapolis (No. 25), Maryland’s busiest Trader Joe’s is 19 miles from the next Trader Joe’s. In Orem, Utah (No. 21), the state’s most trafficked Trader Joe’s is 21 miles from the nearest of the state’s other seven stores.

Colorado Springs (No. 22) is the most isolated store on the list, because the closest Trader Joe’s is in Parker, about 45 miles to the north. In college town Davis (No. 23), the closest one is still a good 17 miles away.

No. 20 to No. 16

The No. 19 store, in Clifton, New Jersey, is less than nine miles from the store at the top of this list; the No. 18 store, in Everett, Washington, is the busiest of 27 in that state.

The No. 17 store, in Princeton, New Jersey, is 15 miles from the next Trader Joe’s, and just 36 percent of its customers call the surrounding five miles home; the No. 16 store, in Las Vegas, is the busiest of nine in Nevada.

No. 15 to No. 11

At the Staten Island store, No. 14, 78 percent of customers live within five miles, and a mere 1 percent, the smallest such percentage of any store on the list, come from 30 miles or more away. Hartsdale, in Westchester County, is No. 13 and is New York’s busiest store outside Manhattan.

No. 12, on Prospect Road in San Jose, draws the most local clientele of the 25 stores: 86 percent of its customers live within five miles. Boulder, Colorado, No. 11 and the site of the University of Colorado, is the busiest of nine Colorado stores.

No. 10 to No. 6

Though there’s another Trader Joe’s just 2 miles away, No. 9’s Culver City location sees 1,357,974 visits a year.

No. 8’s Fresno location has the largest percentage of shoppers who come from 30 miles or more away (19 percent).

No. 5 to No. 2

Two California stores rounded out the top five: Chino Hills was No. 4 and Orange No. 5. Castro Valley, in the East Bay, lands at No. 3 with 1,575,913 visits. Castro Valley’s Trader Joe’s skews more neighborhood than destination, as 77 percent of customers live within five miles of the store.

No. 2 is Manhattan, and its card covers all of the borough’s stores. The East Village store on 14th Street at Avenue A, which opened in January 2020 in the old Stuyvesant post office building and is one of the chain’s largest stores in the city, logged about 1.60 million visits. That puts Manhattan at No. 2, and with an adjusted number the gap of about 22,000 visits to No. 1 is too close to call.

No. 1: Paramus, New Jersey

Paramus, New Jersey has the busiest Trader Joe’s that we were able to measure: the store at 404 Route 17 had 1,625,619 visits over the course of a year, roughly 4,491 visits per day. That’s 2.0 times the visits at your typical Trader Joe’s and 49,706 more visits than Castro Valley, the next store we measured directly.

The No. 2 Trader Joe’s, in Manhattan, received approximately 22,000 fewer visits than our winner, close enough that the store on 14th Street could actually be the busiest.

Visits at the Paramus store peak at 4 p.m., when the store sees an average of 583 visits per hour. Some 47 percent of the Paramus store’s customers live more than five miles away, and 71 percent of its customers visited another popular destination nearby (2.2 miles, in fact): Westfield Garden State Plaza.

So Why Is the Busiest One in New Jersey?

Paramus is a retail freak of nature. The town of 27,000 people straddling Routes 4 and 17 in Bergen County has four malls (including the Westfield Garden State Plaza) and probably more retail sales per ZIP code than anywhere else in the nation. The entire New York metro area shops there. And that Paramus Trader Joe’s on Route 17 feeds off of that flow of shoppers all week long. Here’s a fun fact: Bergen County still has blue laws, which means the malls around Trader Joe’s close on Sundays. Grocery stores are exempt, and Sundays account for 16 percent of visits to this Trader Joe’s. So one day a week the busiest Trader Joe’s we studied is one of the few places open in the biggest shopping town in America.

Paramus isn’t the only New York metro area Trader Joe’s in our top 25: There are also locations in Clifton (No. 19), Staten Island (No. 14), Hartsdale (No. 13) and 14th Street in Manhattan (No. 2). The New York metro’s total of five is second only to California’s, and just like with Whole Foods, the busiest Trader Joe’s locations seem to be in areas that receive a lot of traffic from across their metro areas.

All 25 on One Chart

Before You Go

Curious how Trader Joe’s prices compare to Walmart’s? Check out these charts. Want to see how different grocery chains stack up? Here are the most-visited Whole Foods locations in the U.S..

Cory Jones

Cory Jones has spent 20 years in media and publishing and now leads the data and editorial operation behind The Greenest.