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 34668:
The red outline is zip code 34668. The red dot is Tropicana Field.
Demographic breakdown:
- Estimated Population: 42,619
- Median Income: $31,620
- Average Age: 46.8
- White: 38,466 (90.3%)
- Black: 1,160 (2.7%)
- Hispanic: 4,939 (11.6%)
- Rays fans: 9,376 (44% of baseball fans)
- Yankees fans: 4,262 (20% of baseball fans)
- Red Sox fans: 2,131 (10% of baseball fans)
- Distance to Tropicana Field: 42.2 miles
- Distance to Steinbrenner Field: 39.6 miles
- Distance to Bright House Field: 24.7 miles
- Distance to Florida Auto Exchange Stadium: 23.7 miles
- Distance to McKechnie Field: 66 miles
- Distance to Toytown: 36.9 miles
- Distance to Tampa Park Apartments: 45.9 miles