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July 25, 2004

Wi-fi by state

Planning a cross-country trip, and I just noticed that Jiwire has fewer wi-fi hotspots listed in Michigan than Imbler. Now, that doesn't totally surprise me even taking into account the population differential (10 million vs. 3.5). But, out of curiousity I did the following: took the population of the state, divided it by the number of wi-fi spots listed in Jiwire (so, I got the number of people per hotspot), and then divided these numbers by the lowest value (so 1 would be the "state" with the fewest people per hotspot).

Anyway, I put "state" in quotations because Washington D.C. came out on top. Here are the top five (the second value is the raw ratio while the third is the relative measure):

DC 3912 1
WA 7801 1.99
OR 11985 3.06
CA 12053 3.08
CO 12266 3.14

Bottom five:

KY 52793 13.49
AR 60571 15.48
MS 68602 17.53
AL 69242 17.7
WV 181035 46.27

West Virginia is pretty wack. But, I believe it was also the last state to get a Starbucks. Below is the full list. Excel file with all data (and a chart) here (though really, take 30 minutes and you can get it from the Census and Jiwire too!).

DC 3912 1
WA 7801 1.99
OR 11985 3.06
CA 12053 3.08
CO 12266 3.14
ID 13801 3.53
NV 14941 3.82
AZ 15165 3.88
NY 17043 4.36
IL 17405 4.45
TX 17983 4.6
CT 18049 4.61
GA 18361 4.69
MA 18774 4.8
FL 19231 4.92
WY 19279 4.93
HI 21683 5.54
UT 21773 5.57
MN 22190 5.67
KS 22508 5.75
NM 22586 5.77
VA 22939 5.86
MD 25387 6.49
NC 28991 7.41
SC 29001 7.41
RI 29086 7.43
VT 29481 7.54
MO 31869 8.15
NE 32817 8.39
WI 32966 8.43
SD 34741 8.88
ND 35213 9
PA 35330 9.03
NJ 35549 9.09
LA 36261 9.27
OK 36578 9.35
TN 37689 9.63
MT 38234 9.77
NH 39021 9.97
DE 43026 11
IA 43034 11
OH 43154 11.03
MI 43262 11.06
IN 45224 11.56
AK 46344 11.85
ME 50220 12.84
KY 52793 13.49
AR 60571 15.48
MS 68602 17.53
AL 69242 17.7
WV 181035 46.27

Posted by razib at 02:52 AM