[Az-Geocaching] Ranking of some states in terms of geocaching activity (best to worst): UT, OR, AZ, NM, CA, CO
Highpointer
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Fri, 17 May 2002 09:47:57 -0700 (PDT)
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Baja Fleg <fleigle@hotmail.com> wrote:
Here is another good way of killing your geocaching activity, move to a state that has almost no caches!! I think New Mexico has around 110 geocaches total. New Mexico is as big a state as Arizona but with probably 1/10th the population so geocaching here suffers.
Actually, New Mexico has fewer people than Arizona, but its population is greater than 1/10 of Arizona. According to the 2000 Census, the population of Arizona is 5,130,632 and that of New Mexico is 1,819,046, so the ratio NM population to AZ population is about 0.35. Right now NM has 139 caches and AZ has 545, so the ratio is 0.25, so the geocaching activity in NM is less intense than it is in AZ. AZ has one cache for every 9,414 people and NM has one cache for every 13,086 people.
However, NM has a better ratio to caches to population than Colorado. The ratio of NM's population to CO's population (4,301,261) is 0.42, but the ratio of caches (139 to 282) is 0.49. CO has one cache for every 15,253 people. This is surprising, considering that Colorado is one of the nation's leading states in terms of high-tech activity, computer ownership, and household income, while NM ranks near the bottom of those categories.
The real hotbed of Geocaching, at least in the western USA, appears to be Utah. Utah, with 685 caches, has one cache for every 3,260 people. Oregon, the birthplace of Geocaching, is the second-leading state in the western USA in terms of number of caches (746) and has one cache for every 4,586 people. While California has the most caches of any state (2,349), the state does not rank highly in when this number is compared to the state's enormous population - in CA there is one cache for every 14,420 people.
I suggest that if you really want to increase your cache finding totals quickly, then move to Utah or Oregon.
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<P><B><I>Baja Fleg <fleigle@hotmail.com></I></B> wrote:
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<P><EM>Here is another good way of killing your geocaching activity, move to a state that has almost no caches!! I think New Mexico has around 110 geocaches total. New Mexico is as big a state as Arizona but with probably 1/10th the population so geocaching here suffers.</EM></P>
<P>Actually, New Mexico has fewer people than Arizona, but its population is greater than 1/10 of Arizona. According to the <A href="http://eire.census.gov/popest/states_dataset.csv">2000 Census</A>, the population of Arizona is 5,130,632 and that of New Mexico is 1,819,046, so the ratio NM population to AZ population is about 0.35. Right now NM has 139 caches and AZ has 545, so the ratio is 0.25, so the geocaching activity in NM is less intense than it is in AZ. AZ has one cache for every 9,414 people and NM has one cache for every 13,086 people.</P>
<P>However, NM has a better ratio to caches to population than Colorado. The ratio of NM's population to CO's population (4,301,261) is 0.42, but the ratio of caches (139 to 282) is 0.49. CO has one cache for every 15,253 people. This is surprising, considering that Colorado is one of the nation's leading states in terms of high-tech activity, computer ownership, and household income, while NM ranks near the bottom of those categories. </P>
<P>The real hotbed of Geocaching, at least in the western USA, appears to be Utah. Utah, with 685 caches, has one cache for every 3,260 people. Oregon, the birthplace of Geocaching, is the second-leading state in the western USA in terms of number of caches (746) and has one cache for every 4,586 people. While California has the most caches of any state (2,349), the state does not rank highly in when this number is compared to the state's enormous population - in CA there is one cache for every 14,420 people.</P>
<P>I suggest that if you really want to increase your cache finding totals quickly, then move to Utah or Oregon.</P>
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