At the Discovery Analytics Center we have used the Yelp API to gather the locations of all
8,061 taco trucks in the United States as of May 2019. We binned nearby trucks into
hexagons, each representing the number of trucks in that area. The color represents the median Yelp
rating. This map is an update to our September 2016 map which located the 5,500 taco trucks in the US at that time. The earlier study was in response to a presidential campaign pundit warning that there could be “taco trucks on every corner.” We were curious about how many there actually were.
Click on a hexagon to check out the taco trucks in your area.
Click on a taco on the map to reveal that truck in the list. Hover over trucks in the list to show their map markers' tooltip. Each taco truck's name is a link which opens Yelp in a new tab.
