Visitors to Disney theme parks in the U.S. 2019-2021, by park

Magic Kingdom was the most visited Disney theme park location in the United States in 2021. With more than 12.5 million attendees over the course of the year, the park was roughly four million visitors more popular than Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Epcot which had around 8.5 million and 7.8 million visitors, respectively. The Disney theme park with the fewest attendees throughout 2021 was Blizzard Beach, which reported just over one million guests.

Walt Disney’s Magic Kingdom

In addition to being the most popular theme park from among all Disney-affiliated parks, the Magic Kingdom park is also the most widely visited theme park in the world. Despite the sharp decline in visitors to theme parks globally as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Magic Kingdom maintained its status at the top of the leading amusement and theme parks worldwide, recording almost seven million attendees in total and roughly 1.5 million guests more than second-placed Shanghai Disneyland in China. While the park did attract more guests than other theme parks during 2020, the number of attendees in 2020 was only a fraction of the typical attendance at the Magic Kingdom theme park in previous years.

Amusement and theme parks industry in the U.S.

The amusement and theme parks industry in the U.S. has been steadily increasing in size since 2012. This can be seen from the growing number of businesses in the amusement park sector in the United States, with the figure reaching 536 in 2020, up from 461 a decade before. Similarly, the industry revenue of amusement and theme parks in the U.S. is expected to rise to 21.6 billion U.S. dollars by 2024, up from 14.7 billion U.S. dollars ten years prior.