Marine Surveyor Opportunity Map
Where are the boats, and who's there to survey them? Every state is scored on the gap between boat demand and accredited-surveyor supply. Bigger circles mean more registered boats; greener circles mean fewer surveyors per boat — the clearest openings. The table below ranks all 50 states.
Every state, ranked
Ranked by how many boats each state has against how few surveyors serve them.
| # | State | Reg. boats (2024) | Surveyors | Boats / surveyor | YoY | Signal |
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About this data
Boat counts are state-level registered recreational vessels from the U.S. Coast Guard's 2024 Recreational Boating Statistics (Table 38). For sharper, local demand, documented-vessel records (USCG NVDC/PSIX), marina and access datasets on Data.gov, and state registries are the next sources to layer in.
Surveyor counts come from public accreditation listings (SAMS, NAMS). The opportunity score blends boat volume with how many boats each surveyor would have to cover, scaled 0–100. It points to where demand outruns supply; it doesn't promise business results.