The state of restaurant cleanliness in America
CleanPlate pulls official health-inspection grades from cities across the country into one place. Here’s the big picture — what the data shows when you add it all up.
400,000+
restaurants tracked
234
cities covered
25
states
What the grades show
Across the 284,841 restaurants in 114 metros where we track the complete grade distribution, 82.3% hold the top grade their health department issues.
- Top grade (A / Pass) · 82.3%
- Needs work (B / C / Conditional) · 6.2%
- Failed · 3.5%
- Closed · 0.1%
3,109
restaurants closed or failed an inspection in the last 90 days (in the metros we track in detail)
10,016
currently failing their latest inspection
378
currently closed by a health department
Want to know which metro is cleanest? Because grading systems differ by state, the fair comparison is within a state — see the state-by-state rankings.
Dig into the data
Grade distributions are aggregated across the metros where CleanPlate holds the complete dataset (284,841 restaurants). All data is official, from city and county health departments, and refreshes with each source’s feed. Coverage spans 234 cities across 25 states.