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America's Most Underserved Cupping Cities (2026)
The flip side of the cupping capitals: big American cities where you can barely find a provider inside the city limits. These are the 10 most populous US cities (100,000+ residents) with zero or one cupping provider in our 14,489-provider national directory — 1.8 million people between them. If you've ever thought about adding cupping to a practice, this is the market-gap list. Updated 2026-07-24.
The list
Top of the table: Santa Ana, California — 316,184 people, a single cupping provider. The biggest city with none at all is St. Paul, Minnesota (307,465 residents — 5 of the 10 cities are at zero). Many of these are big suburbs in major metros, which is exactly the point: the anchor city's providers are a drive away, and the local market is thin.
| # | City | Population | Cupping providers in directory |
| 1 | Santa Ana, CA | 316,184 | 1 |
| 2 | St. Paul, MN | 307,465 | 0 |
| 3 | Fontana, CA | 218,455 | 0 |
| 4 | Palmdale, CA | 162,536 | 0 |
| 5 | Paterson, NJ | 160,463 | 1 |
| 6 | Springfield, MA | 154,888 | 0 |
| 7 | Palm Bay, FL | 142,023 | 0 |
| 8 | Jackson, MS | 141,449 | 1 |
| 9 | Concord, CA | 124,016 | 1 |
| 10 | Lowell, MA | 120,418 | 1 |
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