TattooAtlas Data · August 2026

The State of Tattoo Studio Web Presence, 2026

A census of 32,781 tattoo studios across all 50 states — and how many of them can actually be found online.

49%of U.S. tattoo studios have no working website (16,172 of 32,781)

1 in 8studios that list a website have a dead domain (3,827 dark sites)

66%of studios in Mississippi are effectively invisible online — the worst state

37%offline share in Hawaii — the best state still leaves a third unfindable

Key findings

Of 32,781 tattoo studios we track across the United States, 12,345 (38%) list no website at all. Another 3,827 studios list a domain that no longer resolves — the business kept the sign on the door but lost its address on the internet. Combined, 49% of America's tattoo studios cannot be found through their own website: for half the industry, a walk-in, a word of mouth, or a directory listing is the only way in.

Geography matters. In Mississippi (66%), West Virginia (63%), Kentucky (62%) and Alabama (62%), roughly two out of three studios are offline. The best-connected states — Hawaii (37%), Minnesota (38%), New Jersey (38%) — still leave more than a third of their studios without a working site.

State-by-state table

States with at least 100 tracked studios (47 states). «No website» = no site listed anywhere we could find; «dead domain» = a listed domain that fails DNS resolution (NXDOMAIN, checked August 2026).

#	State	Studios	No website	Dead domain	Offline share
1	Mississippi	195	109	19	66%
2	West Virginia	218	127	11	63%
3	Kentucky	492	268	38	62%
4	Alabama	409	207	45	62%
5	Montana	168	90	13	61%
6	Utah	428	220	42	61%
7	Tennessee	742	356	68	57%
8	Maine	195	83	27	56%
9	Iowa	424	188	51	56%
10	Wyoming	125	60	10	56%
11	Kansas	168	77	17	56%
12	Missouri	757	343	80	56%
13	Arkansas	281	125	32	56%
14	Texas	2,730	1,218	304	56%
15	Nebraska	230	101	27	56%
16	Louisiana	380	166	45	56%
17	South Dakota	155	64	19	54%
18	Georgia	832	345	95	53%
19	New Mexico	226	93	26	53%
20	Idaho	336	145	31	52%
21	Indiana	810	342	78	52%
22	Oklahoma	331	134	37	52%
23	New Hampshire	194	77	22	51%
24	Ohio	1,314	527	136	50%
25	North Carolina	1,164	435	144	50%
26	Nevada	459	161	67	50%
27	South Carolina	313	117	37	49%
28	Arizona	891	328	109	49%
29	Pennsylvania	1,502	562	169	49%
30	Michigan	934	350	101	48%
31	Illinois	935	343	102	48%
32	Florida	2,492	850	325	47%
33	Wisconsin	697	263	64	47%
34	Washington	1,004	338	133	47%
35	Rhode Island	144	50	17	46%
36	Colorado	882	295	114	46%
37	New York	1,806	583	229	45%
38	Oregon	696	236	73	44%
39	California	3,193	942	475	44%
40	Maryland	439	128	56	42%
41	Virginia	579	183	56	41%
42	North Dakota	110	36	9	41%
43	Connecticut	339	97	40	40%
44	Massachusetts	488	137	52	39%
45	New Jersey	601	139	92	38%
46	Minnesota	451	137	35	38%
47	Hawaii	224	54	28	37%

Methodology

Base data: Overture Maps Foundation open dataset (release 2026-07), cleaned and deduplicated by TattooAtlas — 32,781 operating tattoo studios. Website liveness: every listed domain was checked by DNS resolution in August 2026; a domain was counted dead only on a hard NXDOMAIN answer, confirmed by a second pass (timeouts and server errors were NOT counted). Closed businesses are excluded where known. Counts are conservative: a parked or abandoned-but-resolving site still counts as «online».

Use this data

Journalists and researchers: cite freely with a link to this page. State-level breakdowns, metro-level cuts or the underlying counts for any state are available on request — write to [email protected], we answer same-day. Data is refreshed with each Overture release.

TattooAtlas is a free public directory of every tattoo studio in the US — no ads, no pay-to-play. This report is part of our open data series.