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Salt Lake City rates well among U.S. cities for easy access to coffee, according to a new analysis trumpeting Thursday as National Coffee Day.

Although it is the worldwide headquarters to the LDS Church, which urges its members to abstain from coffee and tea, the real-estate brokerage website Redfin says Utah's capital ranks seventh among a group of 100 U.S. cities for the number of coffee shops per capita.

The analysis landed Salt Lake City in Redfin's top 10 "most-caffeinated cities," in a league as such regionally reknowned java hubs as Seattle and Portland.

"It is crazy, isn't it?" said Steve Brewster, proprietor of Millcreek Coffee Roasters at 657 Main St., an establishment where, he noted, "Every day is National Coffee Day."

Founded in 1993 as coffee drinking was exploding in U.S. popularity, Millcreek Coffee had few competitors, Brewster noted. "Now everybody roasts," he said, "and there's a coffee shop on every corner."

The Redfin study — which focused only on large cities in which the web-based firm fields real-estate agents — counted 104 independently owned coffee shops and 32 outlets of large coffee chains within Salt Lake City.

That computes to about one coffee joint per 1,413 residents, based on the latest U.S. Census figures.

San Francisco ranked No. 1 by Redfin's metrics, with 1,062 coffee shops total or about one per 814 residents, based on Census figures.

It was followed by Seattle, Portland, Oakland and Pittsburgh. The Las Vegas suburb known as Paradise, finished sixth, just ahead of Salt Lake City. New Orleans, Minneapolis and Tacoma, Wash., rounded out Redfin's "most-caffeinated" list.

With its real-estate focus, Redfin pegged Salt Lake City's 84101 ZIP code — centered on the downtown's western edge — as having the most coffee shops per capita citywide.

And apparently over-caffeinated themselves, data scientists for the Seattle-based website then calculated how many lattes it would take to buy an average-priced home in the 84101 ZIP code, at $275,000.

Answer: 68,750 lattes.

By comparison, Redfin found the latte equivalent needed to purchase an average home in San Francisco's most coffee-soaked ZIP code was 337,000.

Tony Semerad