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Food Delivery Couriers
Key Takeaways
- In 2019, GrubHub had 65,000 drivers across 300 US cities.
- As of 2022, Uber Eats had 400,000 delivery personnel in the US.
- Uber Eats, Grubhub, DoorDash, and Postmates engage three million fifteen thousand food delivery couriers.
Introduction
This research brief provides the estimated number of US food delivery couriers by DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub, and Postmates. We have provided the total couriers based on the most available estimates. Postmates was acquired by Uber in 2020; hence its most recent courier data is from 2020, as Uber has yet to provide the data since acquiring the company. Grubhub is part of Just Eat Takeaway.com, operating across the US. DoorDash increased the number of couriers from around one million in 2020 to over 2 million in 2021.
Overview
- Grubhub has more than 365,000 restaurant partners across more than 4,000 US cities. It processes more than 715,000 daily orders.
- As of 2023, DoorDash was the leading meal delivery service provider with a 65% market share in sales.
- Uber Eats comes second with a 23% market share. However, with its acquisition of Postmates, its market share increased to 25%
Number of Courier/Delivery Drivers
- As of June 30, 2020, Postmates had over 550,000 couriers.
- As of December 2020, DoorDash had over one million couriers. However, in the first quarter of 2021, it had over 2 million couriers.
- In 2019, GrubHub had 65,000 drivers across 300 US cities.
- As of 2022, Uber Eats had 400,000 delivery personnel in the US.
- Uber Eats, Grubhub, DoorDash, and Postmates engage three million fifteen thousand food delivery couriers.
Research Strategy
We leveraged the most reputable publicly available information in the public domain to estimate the number of food delivery couriers engaged by DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub, and Postmates. We utilized each company's press releases, annual and quarterly reports, and websites as available. We also leveraged reliable news outlets such as the Chicago Tribune. However, we could not find the number of couriers engaged by the companies as of 2023. Therefore, we used the most recent estimates available. As such, we have used sources older than 24 months. Due to the lack of data current data, it should be noted that the actual number of couriers is likely to be higher than the estimate provided.
To determine the total number of delivery drivers engaged by the four companies, we added the data for the most recent years available.
Uber Eats-400,000 (2022) + Postmates-550,000 (2020) +Doordash-2,000,000 (quarter 1 2021) + Grubhub-65,000 (2019) = 3,015,000