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Barn Wedding Venue Stats, 2026

We mapped every barn and farm wedding venue in America — 8,507 venues with 991,635 reviews between them. Here's where the barns actually are, which states have the most venues per resident, what venues say their packages cost, and how big the biggest barns really get. (Journalists & bloggers: cite freely with a link.)

The Barn Wedding Cost Index

What does a barn wedding venue actually cost? We collected the package and rental prices venues state on their own websites — 632 venues so far — and computed the median by state. Nationally the median stated package price is $2,000. The priciest state with enough data to publish is Washington at a median $4,800; the most affordable is Illinois at $500. These are the venues' own stated prices, not estimates — always confirm current pricing with the venue.

#	State	Median stated package price	Venues with stated pricing
1	Washington	$4,800	23
2	Oregon	$3,800	5
3	Kansas	$3,700	10
4	Minnesota	$3,500	5
5	Pennsylvania	$3,490	19
6	Montana	$3,250	6
7	Tennessee	$3,000	31
8	Indiana	$2,750	12
9	Texas	$2,500	75
10	Colorado	$2,500	9
11	South Carolina	$2,500	10
12	Michigan	$2,125	18
13	Alabama	$2,050	14
14	Massachusetts	$2,000	5
15	Georgia	$2,000	20

A state only gets a row with 5+ venues stating a price, and counts grow as our crawls continue. Full table: barn-venue-cost-index.csv.

Which states have the most barn wedding venues per capita?

Nationally there are about 25.1 barn wedding venues per million residents. The per-capita crown goes to Vermont at 81.7 venues per million — 53 venues for a state of 0.6 million people — with Montana at 59.8 and Wyoming at 52.8 close behind. Barn venues follow farmland and countryside more than population: the states with working farms, rolling hills, and a drive-to-the-country wedding tradition keep the most barns dressed in string lights per resident. At the other end, Hawaii has just 3.5 per million.

#	State	Venues	Per million people
1	Vermont	53	81.7
2	Montana	68	59.8
3	Wyoming	31	52.8
4	Maine	72	51.2
5	New Hampshire	71	50.4
6	Tennessee	326	45.1
7	South Dakota	40	43.3
8	Idaho	83	41.5
9	Alabama	209	40.5
10	Kentucky	179	39
11	Kansas	115	38.7
12	North Carolina	417	37.8
13	Missouri	232	37.1
14	Iowa	120	37
15	Arkansas	111	35.9

By raw count the big states still win — Texas has 782, California has 728, North Carolina has 417 — but per resident, Vermont is the easiest place in America to find a barn for your big day. This table is downloadable: barn-venues-per-capita.csv.

America's barn wedding capitals

The towns and cities with the most barn wedding venues in the directory, by raw count. The list looks nothing like a normal "most of X" city ranking — barn venues cluster around small countryside towns within driving distance of big metros, not in the metros themselves. Top of the list: Snohomish, WA (19) · Miami, FL (18) · Austin, TX (14).

#	City	Barn venues
1	Snohomish, WA	19
2	Miami, FL	18
3	Austin, TX	14
4	Lebanon, TN	14
5	San Luis Obispo, CA	14
6	Tucson, AZ	13
7	Temecula, CA	13
8	Boerne, TX	12
9	Amarillo, TX	12
10	Weatherford, TX	12

The full ranking — raw counts, per-capita, and how the big cities compare — lives on the Barn Wedding Capitals page.

The biggest barn venues in America

Of the venues that state a guest capacity on their own website (1,189 so far), the median barn holds 200 guests (average 217). At the top end, the biggest stated capacity in the directory is 1,000 guests at Upper Las Virgenes Ranch in Calabasas, CA. Capacity is always the venue's own stated number — confirm with the venue when you tour.

#	Venue	City	Stated capacity
1	Upper Las Virgenes Ranch	Calabasas, CA	1,000
2	White Azalea Estate	Harvest, AL	890
3	Graeagle Corner Barn	Graeagle, CA	814
4	Alpine Grove Events Centre	Hollis, NH	800
5	The Ranch Miami	Miami, FL	800
6	Tupelo Cotton Mill	Tupelo, MS	800
7	The Grove at Centerton	Pittsgrove, NJ	700
8	Lord Hill Farms	Snohomish, WA	700
9	Castleton Farms	Loudon, TN	700
10	The Barn at Woods Fort	Troy, MO	700
11	Hillside Farms	Tenino, WA	650
12	Tin Top Gin	Slaton, TX	650
13	Inn of the Hills Hotel & Conference Center	Kerrville, TX	600
14	Walhill Farm	Batesville, IN	550
15	Kiesling Ranch LLC	Thorndale, TX	530

Downloadable: biggest-barn-venues.csv.

The wedding-weekend states: venues you can stay at

At least 2,244 venues (26%) offer on-site lodging — farmhouses, cabins, and bridal cottages that turn the wedding into a whole weekend. The state-by-state map, ranked by lodging venues per resident, is the Wedding-Weekend Map; the door-to-door list is the venues with lodging directory.

America's densest barn-venue cities

Barn venues per 100k residents, cities over 50k population. Raw counts favor small countryside towns, so this table is the mid-size lens — the cities over 50k where barn weddings cluster hardest per resident.

#	City	Venues	Per 100k
1	Lebanon, TN	14	27.2
2	Cleveland, TN	11	21.9
3	Bozeman, MT	11	19
4	Petaluma, CA	11	18.5
5	Chapel Hill, NC	9	14.1
6	Gallatin, TN	7	13.3
7	Mooresville, NC	7	13.2
8	Lincoln, CA	7	12.4
9	Homestead, FL	10	11.7
10	Temecula, CA	13	11.6
11	Burleson, TX	6	10.7
12	Livermore, CA	9	10.6
13	Lancaster, PA	6	10.3
14	Longmont, CO	10	10
15	Lafayette, IN	7	9.8

Inside the venues

Of the 8,507 venues in the directory, 8,275 are definitive barn, farm, and ranch wedding venues — that's what they call themselves — with the rest being event barns, orchards, and countryside estates whose grounds earn them a place here. From our venue-website and review mining so far (these counts are floors — they require evidence, and enrichment is ongoing):

Venues that…	Count	Share
Host weddings (confirmed)	7,855	92%
Offer on-site lodging	2,244	26%
Offer all-inclusive packages	1,582	19%
Are climate-controlled	1,476	17%
Allow outside catering	593	7%
Host elopements & micro-weddings	1,713	20%

These attributes are exactly why we badge listings: browse wedding venues, venues with on-site lodging, all-inclusive venues, corporate & event venues, and the venue styles from rustic barns to vineyard estates.

Small-town destination venues worth the drive

Barn venues in towns under 30,000 people that still pull hundreds or thousands of reviews — the destination barns couples travel for, which in this niche is most of the magic.

McMenamins Edgefield — Troutdale, OR ★ 4.6 (11,605 reviews)
Wright's Farm — Burrillville, RI ★ 4.4 (5,644 reviews)
Oglebay Park Resort — Wheeling, WV ★ 4.4 (4,406 reviews)
Blazin' M Ranch — Cottonwood, AZ ★ 4.7 (2,975 reviews)
Best Western Prairie Inn & Conference Center — Galesburg, IL ★ 4.4 (2,688 reviews)
The Lodge at Geneva-on-the-Lake — Geneva, OH ★ 4.5 (2,561 reviews)
Cider Hill Farm — Amesbury, MA ★ 4.8 (1,953 reviews)
Swans Trail Farms — Snohomish, WA ★ 4.6 (1,906 reviews)
Wright's Dairy Farm and Bakery — North Smithfield, RI ★ 4.7 (1,706 reviews)
Landmark Tavern at Stone House — Warren, NJ ★ 4.5 (1,757 reviews)
Minnesota Horse and Hunt Club — Prior Lake, MN ★ 4.7 (1,564 reviews)
Indian Ranch — Webster, MA ★ 4.7 (1,483 reviews)
Sonny Acres Farm — West Chicago, IL ★ 4.3 (1,614 reviews)
Y.O. Ranch Hotel & Conference Center — Kerrville, TX ★ 4.1 (1,665 reviews)
The Inn at New Hyde Park - Wedding & Corporate Event Venue — New Hyde Park, NY ★ 4.4 (1,539 reviews)

More data: the full stats suite

Each deep-dive below is its own dataset page with a downloadable CSV — cite freely with a link.

America's Barn Wedding Capitals — the towns and cities with the most barn venues, raw count and per resident.
The Best Cities for a Barn Wedding — venue density × venue quality, scored for every US city over 50k.
The Wedding-Weekend Map — 2,244 venues with confirmed on-site lodging, mapped by state.
America's most underserved barn-wedding cities — the biggest US cities with zero or one barn venue.

Downloads: barn-venues-per-capita.csv · barn-wedding-capitals.csv · barn-venue-cost-index.csv · biggest-barn-venues.csv · best-cities-for-barn-weddings.csv · underserved-cities.csv.

Methodology: venue counts from our continuously maintained national directory (public business listings, filtered to genuine barn, farm, and ranch wedding venues); attribute counts (on-site lodging, all-inclusive packages, outside catering, climate control) mined from venue websites and couples' reviews; package prices and guest capacities are always the venue's own stated numbers, never estimates; population = US Census 2024 estimates. Per-capita = venues ÷ state population × 1,000,000. Want the dataset for a story? Email us — we're happy to cut the numbers by state or metro, with attribution.