America might run on Dunkin’, but it feels like Boston is swimming in it. No matter where you are standing in the city, it is unlikely that you will be more than a few minutes away from that pink and orange sign.

In 2020 The Boston Guardian unveiled a new metric for Boston’s Dunkin’ saturation, the Dunkin Density Index (DDI). The metric outlined which neighborhoods in the city had the highest density of Dunkin’ Donuts locations per square mile.

Logging locations featured on Dunkin’s website and additional locations on Google Maps not listed, Downtown remains the Boston neighborhood with the highest density of Dunkin’ locations in the city with 12.6 Dunkin’s per square mile (DSM). That is a whopping 19 locations packed into only 1.5 square miles.

Beacon Hill, with a comparatively small surface area, has a DSM of 10, with only three Dunkin’ locations. Interestingly, two of those three locations on Beacon Hill are listed as temporarily closed according to Google Maps, meaning residents and Boston Common visitors might be walking a little further for their cup of hot or iced coffee.

Coming third, Back Bay, also with three locations, has a DSM of 7.07. The three locations form a kind of triangle in the neighborhood, all roughly within a ten minute walk from each other.

Next on the list comes Fenway and Longwood Medical and Academic area with a DSM of 7 flat, including several Dunkin’ locations in Fenway Park and area colleges, universities and hospitals.

South End, with a DSM of 5.71, remains a kind of Dunkin’ desert with only three locations, excluding the location inside of Boston University Medical Campus.

Even with the relative closeness of Dunkin Donuts locations throughout the city, there are some individual locations, particularly travel hubs, which are even more dense with Dunkin’. For example, factoring Dunkin’ by Hudson and Dunkin’ express stores both pre- and post-security, Logan International Airport is home to a mind boggling 14 locations distributed among its four terminals.

With an approximate area of 3.75 square miles, including about 700 acres underwater, Logan International Airport has a DSM of 3.73.

Comparatively, the airport “only” has seven Starbucks Coffee locations and notably does not have a location at Terminal E, according to the Massport website.

At TD Garden and Boston’s North Station there are at least two locations, according to the company’s website, one just a few steps away near the corner of Causeway and Canal Streets and yet another just a three minute walk from The Garden at Causeway and Lancaster Streets.

Needless to say, if you throw a stone in the City of Boston, you very well may just hit a Dunkin’. But if you are for whatever reason not a fan of Dunkin’ coffee, there’s no reason to fret, maybe just don’t say it aloud, as there is no shortage of Starbucks, Tatte’s and independent coffee shops throughout the city.