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Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen in California

popeyes.com · Chicken & Wings · the Q3 2026 release

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen has 298 locations in California, its 2nd-largest state of the 48 it operates in.

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Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen in California

Every figure in this block is measured inside California. Nothing in it is a rate.

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen: local figures for California.
FigureValueWhat it measuresCalifornia only
Locations in California298Records the US location index holds for Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen inside California right now — a snapshot at the Q3 2026 release, not a change over time.
Rank among Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen's states2nd of 48By location count, among the states where this brand clears the publication floor.
States with a published Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen page48States where the brand has at least 3 locations. Smaller states exist in the index and are not published.
Locations across those states3,474The sum of the state table below. Lower than the national count, which includes states under the floor.
California's share of that footprint8.6%A share of the published states only. Both halves are the same measure, so this is not a growth rate.
Verified openings in California11A DIFFERENT measure from the count above: openings detected inside the tracked window, not stores standing today.
Cities with verified openings in California11Distinct cities after folding spelling variants. See the city table.
  • The two counts above are measured differently and are both correct. Locations in California is a presence snapshot of what operates there now; verified openings counts what opened inside the tracked window. A chain that already had 40 locations in California and opened none reads 0 openings.
  • It is a count of OPENINGS, not of stores. Openings are diffs against the previous release, so a mature operator that finished its California buildout before the window opened shows a large location count and no openings at all.
Where Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen has opened in California

Cities with verified openings recorded for Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen in California. The count beside each city is its openings — not its total Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen locations.

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen verified openings by city in California, largest first.
Citymodal spelling in the indexVerified openingsinside CaliforniaShare of California openingsSpellings foldedraw variants in the index
Corona19.1%1
Diamond Bar19.1%1
Fountain Valley19.1%1
Oceanside19.1%1
Pomona19.1%1
San Carlos19.1%1
San Jacinto19.1%1
San Juan Capistrano19.1%1
Santa Clarita19.1%1
South El Monte19.1%1
Torrance19.1%1
  • 11 cities with verified openings in California.
  • Spellings are folded the same way the city URLs are built, so "St. Louis" and "St Louis" are one city rather than two. The most frequent raw spelling wins the label; "Spellings folded" is how many the index actually holds.
  • Cities are NOT linked: a city page is published only where at least three brands clear the floor, so a link from here would frequently point at a page that does not exist.
Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen in every state we publish

The brand's whole published footprint, largest first. California is highlighted in place.

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen locations by state.
RankStateLocationspresence snapshotShare of footprintpublished states only
1Texas48814.0%
2California — this page2988.6%
3New York2467.1%
4Florida2336.7%
5Georgia1895.4%
6Louisiana1775.1%
7Illinois1704.9%
8New Jersey1193.4%
9Maryland1133.3%
10Virginia1083.1%
11Pennsylvania1002.9%
12Ohio932.7%
13North Carolina852.4%
14Alabama822.4%
15Mississippi752.2%
16Tennessee692.0%
17Indiana661.9%
18Arkansas561.6%
19Michigan561.6%
20Missouri561.6%
21Arizona541.6%
22Colorado481.4%
23South Carolina461.3%
24Connecticut411.2%
25Kentucky351.0%
26Nevada351.0%
27Oklahoma330.9%
28Washington320.9%
29Wisconsin300.9%
30Massachusetts260.7%
31Kansas250.7%
32Minnesota230.7%
33Oregon200.6%
34New Mexico180.5%
35Utah180.5%
36Delaware150.4%
37Hawaii150.4%
38Nebraska140.4%
39Iowa130.4%
40District of Columbia110.3%
41Idaho90.3%
42Rhode Island80.2%
43Alaska60.2%
44Maine50.1%
45West Virginia50.1%
46New Hampshire40.1%
47North Dakota30.1%
48South Dakota30.1%
  • A state appears here only with at least 3 locations. States below the floor are in the index but have no page, so this total is smaller than the national count.
  • Locations are a presence snapshot at the Q3 2026 release. They are not openings and they are not a change.
Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen nationwide

Context for the local figures above. None of it is a California number.

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen: national figures, for context only.
FigureValueUnited StatesBasis
US locations3,478At the latest vintage, Q3 2026.
US locations at the window start3,103The first tracked vintage, Q4 2024.
Net new over the window+375The difference between the two counts above. A count movement, not a count of openings.
Growth over the windowwithheld: this brand's index coverage is still maturing — see the note under this tablePercentage change in the count between the first and latest vintages, nationwide.
Growth as a multiplewithheld: this brand's index coverage is still maturing — see the note under this tableThe same movement stated as a multiple of the starting count.
Growth against its categorywithheld: this brand's index coverage is still maturing — see the note under this tableThe brand's percentage change minus its category's, so a rising tide is subtracted out.
Mean quarterly change-59Average count movement per vintage step. The default ranking key on the hub.
Verified openings in the window148Individually dated location records new to the index inside the window, nationwide.
Openings pace, latest step+7.2Verified openings per 91 days over the most recent vintage step.
Openings pace, prior stepthe prior step is majority batch-suspect, so its pace and the direction are withheld while the latest one standsThe same measure one step earlier.
Directionthe two steps are not comparable, so no direction is statedAccelerating, steady or slowing, decided on the two paces at the precision they are printed.
Latest pace as a share of the basea single quarter's share has nothing to be read against, so it prints only alongside the prior quarter'sThe latest pace over the store count at that step's start vintage.
Prior pace as a share of the basewithheld with the prior step, aboveThe same measure one step earlier.
Reported openings pace, latest+7.2The server's own pre-aggregated pace. Shown because the page ranks on the series-derived figure above and the two must agree.
Reported openings pace, prior+45The same, one step earlier.
Largest single step's share of the change53%One release carrying most of the movement is the signature of a data-coverage artifact rather than of openings.
Steps that moved the same direction100%A real buildout moves one way most quarters. This and the row above are the credibility filter.
Passes the credibility filteryesLargest step at or under half the movement, most steps in one direction, and net new above zero.
Cleared to print a percentagenoWhether the index's coverage of this brand is mature enough for a rate to mean anything.
Openings corroborated by coverage40%Share of the openings that agree with the count series over the same step.
Records matching the brand's own website100%Share of index records whose website resolves to this domain.
Records sharing an address with another operator28%High values mean host locations, sibling banners or shared kitchens rather than the chain's own leases.
Entity classchainAnything other than a chain is not published as a brand page in this state tier.
CategoryDining and Drinking > Restaurant > Fried Chicken JointThe index's own category path for this brand.
SegmentChicken & WingsThe published grouping the category rolls up to.
Match name in the indexpopeyes louisiana kitchenThe string the location index matches records against. Rarely the display name.
Display namePopeyes Louisiana KitchenAs published. Some domains carry a read-time repair where the index's most frequent name is a department's.
Domainpopeyes.comThe key every table on this tier is joined on.
Tracked window8 vintages, Q4 2024 to Q3 2026How many quarterly releases this brand has been measured across.
Vintage stamps2024-11-19|2024-12-03|2025-03-06|2025-06-10|2025-09-09|2025-12-16|2026-03-18|2026-07-09Every release these figures were built from, oldest first, pipe-separated. It is a LIST of dates rather than one date, which is why nothing on this page prints it as a timestamp.
  • Every figure in this block is NATIONAL. It is identical on all 48 of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen's state pages and is not apportioned to California — dividing a national percentage into a state is not a fact about anything, which is why no California growth rate is published anywhere on this page.
  • Openings are individually dated records new to the index; net new is the difference between two count snapshots. The two answer different questions and rarely match.
  • This brand's index coverage is still maturing, so growth percentages are withheld — the counts shown are individually verified store openings.
Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen's count by quarter, nationwide

The national count series behind the figures above. Both readings of it — the raw count and the indexed one — are columns here.

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen: US locations at each tracked vintage.
QuarterVintage dateUS locationsIndexed100 = first vintageChange vs prior
Q4 20242024-11-193,103100—
Q4 20242024-12-033,105100+2
Q1 20252025-03-063,123101+18
Q2 20252025-06-103,323107+200
Q3 20252025-09-093,418110+95
Q4 20252025-12-163,430111+12
Q1 20262026-03-183,466112+36
Q3 20262026-07-093,478112+12
  • Indexed values rebase the series to 100 at the first vintage with a non-zero count. A brand first measured at zero enters at 0 and reaches 100 one step later.
  • National figures. Not apportioned to any state.
Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen's openings by vintage step, nationwide

Each row is the difference between two consecutive releases, so there is one fewer step than there are quarters above.

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen: verified openings per vintage step, with the real step length each pace is normalised by.
Step endsQuarterOpeningsin the stepStep lengthdaysPaceper 91 daysBatch-suspectshare of the step
Dec 3, 2024Q4 2024314+200%
Mar 6, 2025Q1 20251393+130%
Jun 10, 2025Q2 20251896+1722%
Sep 9, 2025Q3 20253591+350%
Dec 16, 2025Q4 20252598+2364%
Mar 18, 2026Q1 20264592+4578%
Jul 9, 2026Q3 20269113+7.211%
  • Steps are irregular, so a pace is openings divided by the step's real length and multiplied by 91 days rather than a raw quarterly count.
  • A batch-suspect share above half means the records were created on an index-wide vendor ingest day or bunched into a few days of the step; it impeaches the timing, not the existence of the stores.
  • National figures. Not apportioned to any state.
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