Statistics are acquired via census.gov, Facebook/New York Times study, Google Maps.
Assumptions: We are assuming two things. 1) The population of baseball fans is 50% of the total population. 2) The same ratio of fans who "like" a team on Facebook holds for the rest of the population.
Without further ado, Zip Code 33612:
The red outline is zip code 33612. The red dot is Tropicana Field.
Demographic breakdown:
- Estimated Population: 44,601
- Median Income: $28,309
- Average Age: 34.5
- White: 24,698 (55.4%)
- Black: 14,020 (31.4%)
- Hispanic: 12,750 (28.6%)
- Rays fans: 11,150 (50% of baseball fans)
- Yankees fans: 4,237 (19% of baseball fans)
- Red Sox fans: 1,561 (7% of baseball fans)
- Distance to Tropicana Field: 26.4 miles
- Distance to Steinbrenner Field: 9.7 miles
- Distance to Bright House Field: 17.7 miles
- Distance to Florida Auto Exchange Stadium: 31.9 miles
- Distance to McKechnie Field: 53.2 miles
- Distance to Toytown: 22.3 miles
- Distance to Tampa Park Apartments: 7.7 miles