States, Territories & Military Mail Codes

Licensee mailing address, not operating location. GMRS licenses carry no station coordinates.

Jurisdictions Listed 56
Total Active Licensees 468,147
First Grants, 12 Months (Listed) +72,173
Suppressed Cells 3 jurisdictions under min threshold (25)
Rank State / Territory Active Licenses Share of Total First Grants (12 Mo) First-Grant Rate Per 1,000 Residents
1 CA California 56,443 12.1% +8,333 14.8% 1.43
2 TX Texas 37,725 8.1% +5,442 14.4% 1.19
3 FL Florida 26,750 5.7% +4,062 15.2% 1.14
4 WA Washington 22,033 4.7% +3,287 14.9% 2.75
5 NC North Carolina 17,440 3.7% +3,017 17.3% 1.56
6 AZ Arizona 16,795 3.6% +2,139 12.7% 2.20
7 CO Colorado 16,359 3.5% +2,574 15.7% 2.72
8 PA Pennsylvania 14,719 3.1% +2,324 15.8% 1.13
9 NY New York 14,464 3.1% +2,306 15.9% 0.72
10 VA Virginia 14,037 3.0% +2,260 16.1% 1.58
11 OH Ohio 13,704 2.9% +2,125 15.5% 1.15
12 GA Georgia 13,528 2.9% +2,044 15.1% 1.20
13 TN Tennessee 12,476 2.7% +1,939 15.5% 1.71
14 MI Michigan 12,319 2.6% +1,910 15.5% 1.22
15 OR Oregon 12,119 2.6% +1,944 16.0% 2.84
16 IL Illinois 11,391 2.4% +1,676 14.7% 0.90
17 UT Utah 9,923 2.1% +1,750 17.6% 2.80
18 IN Indiana 9,377 2.0% +1,441 15.4% 1.34
19 MO Missouri 8,136 1.7% +1,284 15.8% 1.30
20 NJ New Jersey 7,920 1.7% +1,228 15.5% 0.83
21 NV Nevada 7,517 1.6% +989 13.2% 2.29
22 SC South Carolina 7,359 1.6% +1,256 17.1% 1.32
23 MA Massachusetts 7,025 1.5% +1,206 17.2% 0.98
24 ID Idaho 6,927 1.5% +1,129 16.3% 3.41
25 MD Maryland 6,635 1.4% +1,071 16.1% 1.06
26 WI Wisconsin 6,621 1.4% +993 15.0% 1.11
27 AL Alabama 6,138 1.3% +953 15.5% 1.18
28 OK Oklahoma 6,085 1.3% +914 15.0% 1.48
29 MN Minnesota 5,852 1.3% +1,068 18.3% 1.00
30 KY Kentucky 5,793 1.2% +943 16.3% 1.26
31 AR Arkansas 4,594 1.0% +649 14.1% 1.48
32 PR Puerto Rico Territory 4,404 0.9% +782 17.8% 1.38
33 NM New Mexico 4,147 0.9% +556 13.4% 1.95
34 KS Kansas 4,028 0.9% +659 16.4% 1.35
35 CT Connecticut 3,646 0.8% +583 16.0% 0.99
36 LA Louisiana 3,573 0.8% +527 14.8% 0.77
37 IA Iowa 3,446 0.7% +505 14.6% 1.06
38 NH New Hampshire 3,122 0.7% +507 16.2% 2.21
39 ME Maine 2,985 0.6% +492 16.5% 2.11
40 MT Montana 2,910 0.6% +458 15.7% 2.54
41 WV West Virginia 2,698 0.6% +469 17.4% 1.53
42 NE Nebraska 2,238 0.5% +366 16.4% 1.11
43 MS Mississippi 2,078 0.4% +305 14.7% 0.70
44 AK Alaska 1,675 0.4% +253 15.1% 2.27
45 WY Wyoming 1,563 0.3% +255 16.3% 2.65
46 SD South Dakota 1,548 0.3% +207 13.4% 1.66
47 HI Hawaii 1,446 0.3% +283 19.6% 1.01
48 VT Vermont 1,044 0.2% +177 17.0% 1.62
49 RI Rhode Island 1,029 0.2% +177 17.2% 0.92
50 DE Delaware 950 0.2% +140 14.7% 0.90
51 ND North Dakota 816 0.2% +136 16.7% 1.02
52 DC District of Columbia Federal district 389 0.1% +80 — 0.56
53 GU Guam Territory 74 0.0% — — —
54 VI Virgin Islands Territory 42 0.0% — — —

Military Mail Codes

AA, AE and AP are Armed Forces postal codes, not places: licensees stationed abroad receive mail through them. They are listed here rather than ranked among the states, and have no population figure.

Code Active Licenses First Grants (12 Mo)
AE Armed Forces Europe 32 —
AP Armed Forces Pacific 46 —

* Listed jurisdictions sum to 468,133 active licenses. 3 jurisdictions with fewer than 25 licenses are suppressed under the privacy threshold (12 licenses in total), and 2 active licenses have no state on file; the official active total is 468,147. First grants count licenses first granted in the last 12 months and still active, not renewals. A count under 25 shows as —, and a first-grant rate is shown only for jurisdictions with at least 500 active licenses, where one license moves it by no more than 0.2 points. Residents are the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimates, available for the states, DC and Puerto Rico. See Methodology.

Top 25 Metropolitan Cities by Active Licenses

Licensee mailing address, not operating location. City names are case-folded before counting; the spelling shown is the most common one on file.

Rank City State Active Licenses National Share
1 Las Vegas NV 3,105 0.7%
2 Seattle WA 2,055 0.4%
3 Portland OR 2,039 0.4%
4 Phoenix AZ 1,986 0.4%
5 San Antonio TX 1,974 0.4%
6 Houston TX 1,947 0.4%
7 San Diego CA 1,869 0.4%
8 Colorado Springs CO 1,787 0.4%
9 Tucson AZ 1,758 0.4%
10 Austin TX 1,663 0.4%
11 San Jose CA 1,647 0.4%
12 Los Angeles CA 1,432 0.3%
13 Albuquerque NM 1,258 0.3%
14 Denver CO 1,230 0.3%
15 Mesa AZ 1,174 0.3%
16 San Francisco CA 1,090 0.2%
17 Chicago IL 1,036 0.2%
18 Jacksonville FL 1,015 0.2%
19 Miami FL 978 0.2%
20 Henderson NV 971 0.2%
21 Indianapolis IN 935 0.2%
22 Knoxville TN 919 0.2%
23 Fort Worth TX 906 0.2%
24 Orlando FL 902 0.2%
25 Boise ID 900 0.2%

Top 20 Regional Postal Clusters (3-Digit Sectional Centers)

Anonymized 3-digit sectional center facilities (SCFs) capturing regional concentrations. Cells below the 25-licensee minimum are suppressed.

Rank ZIP Prefix State Active Licenses
1 840xx UT 4,799
2 980xx WA 4,612
3 945xx CA 4,252
4 750xx TX 3,899
5 852xx AZ 3,703
6 853xx AZ 3,265
7 982xx WA 3,218
8 983xx WA 3,148
9 891xx NV 3,133
10 300xx GA 3,028
11 801xx CO 2,927
12 956xx CA 2,896
13 786xx TX 2,874
14 981xx WA 2,591
15 773xx TX 2,590
16 920xx CA 2,580
17 926xx CA 2,576
18 301xx GA 2,493
19 970xx OR 2,493
20 972xx OR 2,426