November 06, 2007
Top 101 cities
City-Data.com is featuring their lists of the top 101 cities for... just about every comparative demographic statistic you can think of. For example, the the city with the largest positive difference between never-married females and never-married males is none other than Roseland, IN. What, pray tell is in Roseland, IN? Why St. Mary's College, one of the largest girl's schools in the country, and just about the entire town. (Okay, it's not technically a girl's school anymore, but there are like six guys that go there, so sue me.)
The city with the largest difference between never-married males to never-married females? That'd be Chuckwalla, CA. The site of one of the most remote state penitentiaries in the country.
Other fun facts:
- The city with the most advanced degrees of any type is Cayuga Heights, NY (near Ithaca, must feed Cornell).
- The city with the highest percentage of citizens born at sea is Hutchins, WI (2 of 'em).
- The county in excess of 50,000 citizens with the most births per 100,000 people is Webb County, TX (gotta set a bottom level there or you wind up at local hospitals in Alaska and Hawaii)
- The city with the highest percentage divorced people is Winchester, NV. That's not particularly interesting. What is interesting is that second place goes to South Salt Lake, UT. (The smallest is Stanford, CA).
- The city with the highest housing density is Friendship Village, MD (it's only 0.06 square miles and has 4,600 people living in it).
- The city with the highest percentage of mobile homes is Village Park, FL (all of 'em).
And it occurs to me that though this has been entertaining, it's also been a complete waste of time.
