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Pawn shops by state
We list 8,948 pawn shops in 3,068 cities and towns across the United States — about 2.7 for every 100,000 residents. A pawn loan is secured by an item you leave at the shop: there is no credit check, and if you don't repay, the shop keeps the item instead of sending you to collections. Pick a state for city-by-city lists with addresses and phone numbers.
- Pawn shops
- 8,948
- States
- 51
- Pawn shops per 100k residents
- 2.7
- Part of a big chain
- 19.9%
- List a phone
- 97.5%
The biggest pawn shop chains
Most pawn shops are independent; 19.9% belong to one of the big chains below.
| Chain | Pawn shops |
|---|---|
| Cash America Pawn | 709 |
| EZPAWN | 407 |
| First Cash Pawn | 201 |
| Value Pawn & Jewelry | 107 |
| Superpawn | 76 |
| Cashland | 60 |
| Complete Cash | 40 |
| La Familia Pawn and Jewelry | 39 |
| USA Pawn | 35 |
| GEM Pawnbrokers | 29 |
| Pawn America | 28 |
| Lending Bear | 25 |
Cities with the most pawn shops per resident
Cities with 50,000+ residents and at least 3 pawn shops, ranked by pawn shops per 100,000 people, with local median household income (U.S.: $85,275) and poverty rate.
| City | Pawn shops | Per 100k people | Median household income | Poverty rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Smith, AR | 15 | 16.0 | $56,234 | 17.9% |
| Hot Springs National Park, AR | 11 | 14.4 | $54,219 | 18.1% |
| Danville, VA | 8 | 13.4 | $48,191 | 21.4% |
| Pasadena, TX | 18 | 12.4 | $62,665 | 19.7% |
| Crossville, TN | 7 | 12.2 | $58,684 | 13.5% |
| Griffin, GA | 8 | 12.0 | $62,778 | 18.3% |
| Norcross, GA | 9 | 12.0 | $54,398 | 18.8% |
| Rome, GA | 9 | 11.8 | $62,230 | 17.7% |
| North Little Rock, AR | 8 | 11.5 | $51,874 | 21.2% |
| Huntington Park, CA | 8 | 11.4 | $61,376 | 17.1% |
| Sherman, TX | 6 | 11.2 | $62,961 | 11.2% |
| Klamath Falls, OR | 6 | 10.9 | $59,744 | 18.9% |
| North Fort Myers, FL | 6 | 10.9 | $55,090 | 15.4% |
| Cocoa, FL | 7 | 10.7 | $67,942 | 13.8% |
| Lagrange, GA | 6 | 10.6 | $54,446 | 19.2% |
Pawn shops in each state
| State | Pawn shops | Per 100k people | Loan stores per 100k | Median household income | Poverty rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 235 | 4.6 | 7.5 | $65,640 | 15.8% |
| Alaska | 25 | 3.4 | — | $91,603 | 10.2% |
| Arizona | 206 | 2.8 | 2.8 | $81,327 | 12.9% |
| Arkansas | 223 | 7.4 | 0.2 | $61,012 | 16.2% |
| California | 535 | 1.4 | 1.6 | $102,369 | 12.0% |
| Colorado | 179 | 3.1 | 1.5 | $97,396 | 9.6% |
| Connecticut | 77 | 2.1 | 0.1 | $104,433 | 10.2% |
| Delaware | 23 | 2.3 | 3.0 | $86,313 | 10.7% |
| District of Columbia | 4 | 0.6 | 1.6 | $111,467 | 15.2% |
| Florida | 983 | 4.5 | 1.6 | $75,446 | 12.7% |
| Georgia | 544 | 5.0 | 5.0 | $79,251 | 13.6% |
| Hawaii | 31 | 2.1 | 0.8 | $101,448 | 10.0% |
| Idaho | 65 | 3.4 | 4.2 | $76,311 | 10.7% |
| Illinois | 263 | 2.1 | 1.1 | $87,400 | 11.8% |
| Indiana | 150 | 2.2 | 2.4 | $73,437 | 12.4% |
| Iowa | 57 | 1.8 | 1.1 | $76,204 | 11.1% |
| Kansas | 87 | 3.0 | 2.8 | $78,365 | 11.8% |
| Kentucky | 244 | 5.4 | 3.0 | $65,382 | 16.2% |
| Louisiana | 149 | 3.2 | 5.0 | $62,722 | 19.0% |
| Maine | 38 | 2.8 | 0.4 | $75,636 | 10.8% |
| Maryland | 123 | 2.0 | 1.6 | $108,948 | 9.5% |
| Massachusetts | 53 | 0.8 | 0.1 | $109,539 | 10.1% |
| Michigan | 159 | 1.6 | 1.4 | $75,812 | 13.3% |
| Minnesota | 86 | 1.5 | 0.6 | $92,264 | 9.4% |
| Mississippi | 151 | 5.1 | 5.2 | $57,184 | 19.2% |
| Missouri | 188 | 3.0 | 4.9 | $73,651 | 12.7% |
| Montana | 67 | 6.1 | 0.5 | $71,403 | 12.2% |
| Nebraska | 37 | 1.9 | 0.4 | $79,262 | 10.5% |
| Nevada | 101 | 3.2 | 5.8 | $78,884 | 12.6% |
| New Hampshire | 25 | 1.8 | 0.6 | $100,699 | 7.3% |
| New Jersey | 72 | 0.8 | 0.6 | $109,319 | 9.9% |
| New Mexico | 54 | 2.6 | 3.3 | $64,322 | 18.1% |
| New York | 314 | 1.6 | 0.2 | $93,193 | 13.8% |
| North Carolina | 375 | 3.5 | 2.2 | $74,061 | 13.2% |
| North Dakota | 17 | 2.2 | 0.5 | $77,573 | 10.9% |
| Ohio | 241 | 2.0 | 1.7 | $74,030 | 13.3% |
| Oklahoma | 222 | 5.6 | 7.2 | $66,838 | 15.4% |
| Oregon | 69 | 1.6 | 1.2 | $83,810 | 11.9% |
| Pennsylvania | 124 | 1.0 | 1.5 | $81,657 | 11.9% |
| Rhode Island | 25 | 2.3 | 0.8 | $89,026 | 11.5% |
| South Carolina | 168 | 3.2 | 7.6 | $69,406 | 14.4% |
| South Dakota | 33 | 3.7 | 0.3 | $73,056 | 12.0% |
| Tennessee | 257 | 3.7 | 8.1 | $71,256 | 13.9% |
| Texas | 1,260 | 4.3 | 5.8 | $81,963 | 13.9% |
| Utah | 87 | 2.6 | 3.0 | $95,410 | 8.7% |
| Vermont | 1 | 0.2 | — | $80,516 | 10.8% |
| Virginia | 197 | 2.3 | 1.9 | $101,899 | 10.1% |
| Washington | 141 | 1.8 | 1.0 | $100,769 | 10.0% |
| West Virginia | 108 | 6.1 | 1.7 | $60,548 | 16.7% |
| Wisconsin | 48 | 0.8 | 3.9 | $78,208 | 10.8% |
| Wyoming | 27 | 4.7 | 1.9 | $76,892 | 10.8% |
Pawn shop listings: © Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive 2.0), including Foursquare OS Places and © OpenStreetMap contributors; filtered and de-duplicated by us. Population, income and poverty: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Call ahead to confirm hours and what a shop buys or lends on.