scary stat of the day

[cos]

Earlier today, for reasons I'll leave out, I found myself wondering how much less use of LJ there is in Iowa than in California, which led me to the raw livejournal stats page. On the way, I noticed that Massachusetts is the #6 state by number of LJ accounts, even though the rest of the top 10 have significantly higher populations. So I pulled up census.gov and divided some numbers...

• Approximately 4.8% of residents of Massachusetts have LiveJournals
• For California, it's about 2.5%. Iowa, 1.4%, and Idaho, 1.0%.
• I think MA has the highest LJ percentage of any state, and perhaps any country. Almost 1 out of 20!

... but I didn't have time to check any more states, or write a script, so I'm not sure :)

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

You could probably correlate the raw emo capacity for a state using the same numbers. :)

[fyfer.livejournal.com]

I bet Massachusetts has a higher concentration of college students than anywhere else.

[summerrose.livejournal.com]

It may be related to how very many colleges and boarding schools Massachusetts has.

[tylik.livejournal.com]

WA comes in at 3.3%...

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

It may not effect the rankings, but all the numbers are probably misleadingly high. Some folks have more than one account.

[kirin]

Huh... so I suppose people with no birth-year listed get sorted into the "as young as possible" bin in order to implement age-filtering in the most conservative manner. Which would explain the 1.7 million 5-year-olds. (Especially as compared to the mere five thousand 105-year-olds.)

[lil-brown-bat.livejournal.com]

So, do we get some kind of a prize or discount or something?

[ocschwar.livejournal.com]

Apparently everyone on Pitcairn has an LJ. Now we know what they do the 8 hours a day they have the generator on.

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

I'd love to see the OKCupid demography. I might be tempted to write a program...

[blucrew3.livejournal.com]

I like how under the 'interests' in that text file sleeping and sleep collectively beat out sex by over 130000