New data has revealed the American cities and states with the highest concentrations of OnlyFans creators – and the results aren’t quite the LA-and-Miami story most people would expect.
The analysis comes from OnlyLocate, a new location-based discovery platform that has mapped nearly 300,000 publicly disclosed creator locations to work out exactly where America’s OnlyFans population is concentrated.
While the data confirms that entertainment hubs like Los Angeles and Miami really are creator strongholds, it also throws up some unexpected hotspots – from major cities to conservative states that rarely get mentioned in the same breath as the adult content industry.
Which states have the most creators?
By raw numbers, California comes out on top, home to an estimated 24,000 recently active OnlyFans creators. Texas is close behind with around 19,000, ahead of Florida (17,000) and New York (10,000). OnlyLocate defines “recently active” as creators who have posted within the last 30 days, or whose activity status is hidden.
But once you factor in population size, the league table flips completely. Nevada comes out as America’s biggest OnlyFans hotspot per capita, with an estimated 135 creators per 100,000 residents – three times the national average. Washington DC takes second place, followed by Florida, California and Texas.
America’s biggest creator cities
The city-level breakdown is just as surprising. Miami ranks as America’s biggest creator city per capita, ahead of Atlanta and Las Vegas, while Orlando and St. Louis also punch well above their weight given their comparatively small populations.
By sheer numbers, though, Los Angeles keeps its crown as the biggest creator city in the country, with an estimated 9,200 creators calling it home.
The Pacific Coast is America’s fetish capital
OnlyLocate’s data doesn’t just map where creators live – it also tracks the kind of content being searched for in different cities, and the Pacific Coast comes out well ahead of the rest of the country.
San Francisco ranks number one nationally, with around 98 fetish tags per 100 creators, and particularly high concentrations of creators tagged as Asian (four times the national rate), Hairy (3.4 times) and BDSM (1.9 times). Portland takes second place with around 95 tags per 100 creators, standing out for its trans creator population (3.8 times the national rate) alongside elevated Goth (2.4 times) and Hairy (2.3 times) numbers. Seattle rounds out the top three with around 90 tags per 100 creators, driven by Latex (2.7 times), femboy (2.3 times) and trans (2.2 times) creators.
‘Being close to LA has been critical for my growth’
For creators actually living in these hotspots, proximity to the traditional entertainment industry still counts for a lot. California-based creator Kit Barrus (@kitthebeefcake), who was born in Ventura County and now lives just outside Los Angeles County, says being near LA has directly helped her career.
“I think being in California is very helpful as a creator. In the early days, it didn’t make a big difference, but now I drive down to LA several times a month to be in YouTube videos, go to networking parties, or be on podcasts,” she said. “It’s an hour and a half for me to zip down there and I think having those media opportunities has been critical for my growth.”
‘There are creators everywhere’
But the data also shows creators are building successful businesses far beyond the traditional entertainment capitals – and for some, their location has become part of their brand rather than a barrier to success.
New York-based creator Alix Lynx (@thealixlynx) said the assumption that creators need to be based in LA or Miami to succeed simply isn’t true. “People assume everyone in this industry lives in LA or Miami, but there are creators everywhere,” she said. “I live in New York, so it’s definitely part of my appeal to some degree. If I’m posting that I’m going to a Knicks game, my New York fans love that.”
Alix said fans regularly get in touch after realising they share the same hometown. “People message me all the time saying, ‘I’m from here,’ or they’ll comment saying they’re from the same borough or recommending places for me to visit. It happens all the time,” she said. “I think people enjoy the fantasy that they could run into me one day. They also like feeling like we have something in common – that we’re into the same places or the same things. It creates a sense of connection.”
Why a location map didn’t already exist
The findings come as the creator economy keeps expanding: OnlyFans has reported around 4.6 million creator accounts registered all-time, while OnlyLocate’s own census identifies roughly 380,000 recently active creators worldwide – the working population its map actually covers.
Despite hundreds of thousands of creators publicly listing where they’re based, discovering them by location has remained surprisingly difficult, since OnlyFans itself doesn’t offer a way to search by location. That gap is what inspired OnlyLocate, an interactive map that lets users discover creators by the locations they’ve chosen to make public – searchable by city, state, country, subscription price, age, gender, body type, and publicly listed interests or categories.
The platform says it only ever shows locations creators have already chosen to make public, never reveals exact addresses, never infers location from IP data, and never displays anything more specific than city level. Creators can also claim, edit or remove their own listing at any time.
In a creator economy where discovery has traditionally been driven by social media algorithms, OnlyLocate is pitching location-based search as a new route to discoverability when it launches on 25 August.
