diff --git a/pkg/capacity/resources.go b/pkg/capacity/resources.go
index 732e65ab..df613c45 100644
--- a/pkg/capacity/resources.go
+++ b/pkg/capacity/resources.go
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ var SupportedSortAttributes = [...]string{
 	"mem.util.percentage",
 	"mem.request.percentage",
 	"mem.limit.percentage",
+	"pod.count",
 	"name",
 }
 
@@ -275,6 +276,8 @@ func (cm *clusterMetric) getSortedNodeMetrics(sortBy string) []*nodeMetric {
 			return m2.memory.percent(m2.memory.limit) < m1.memory.percent(m1.memory.limit)
 		case "mem.request.percentage":
 			return m2.memory.percent(m2.memory.request) < m1.memory.percent(m1.memory.request)
+		case "pod.count":
+			return m2.podCount.current < m1.podCount.current
 		default:
 			return m1.name < m2.name
 		}
diff --git a/pkg/capacity/resources_test.go b/pkg/capacity/resources_test.go
index 52ad3247..8dea5a11 100644
--- a/pkg/capacity/resources_test.go
+++ b/pkg/capacity/resources_test.go
@@ -184,6 +184,71 @@ func TestBuildClusterMetricFull(t *testing.T) {
 	ensureEqualResourceMetric(t, pm["default-example-pod"].memory, memoryExpected)
 }
 
+func TestSortByPodCount(t *testing.T) {
+	nodeList := &corev1.NodeList{
+		Items: []corev1.Node{
+			{
+				ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
+					Name: "node-1",
+				},
+				Status: corev1.NodeStatus{
+					Allocatable: corev1.ResourceList{
+						"pods": resource.MustParse("110"),
+					},
+				},
+			},
+			{
+				ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
+					Name: "node-2",
+				},
+				Status: corev1.NodeStatus{
+					Allocatable: corev1.ResourceList{
+						"pods": resource.MustParse("110"),
+					},
+				},
+			},
+		},
+	}
+
+	podList := &corev1.PodList{
+		Items: []corev1.Pod{
+			{
+				ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
+					Name: "pod-1",
+				},
+				Spec: corev1.PodSpec{
+					NodeName: "node-1",
+				},
+			},
+			{
+				ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
+					Name: "pod-2",
+				},
+				Spec: corev1.PodSpec{
+					NodeName: "node-1",
+				},
+			},
+			{
+				ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
+					Name: "pod-3",
+				},
+				Spec: corev1.PodSpec{
+					NodeName: "node-2",
+				},
+			},
+		},
+	}
+
+	cm := buildClusterMetric(podList, nil, nodeList, nil)
+	sortedNodes := cm.getSortedNodeMetrics("pod.count")
+
+	// Node 1 should come first as it has 2 pods vs 1 pod on node 2
+	assert.Equal(t, "node-1", sortedNodes[0].name)
+	assert.Equal(t, "node-2", sortedNodes[1].name)
+	assert.Equal(t, int64(2), sortedNodes[0].podCount.current)
+	assert.Equal(t, int64(1), sortedNodes[1].podCount.current)
+}
+
 func ensureEqualResourceMetric(t *testing.T, actual *resourceMetric, expected *resourceMetric) {
 	assert.Equal(t, actual.allocatable.MilliValue(), expected.allocatable.MilliValue())
 	assert.Equal(t, actual.utilization.MilliValue(), expected.utilization.MilliValue())