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 33617:
The red outline is zip code 33617. The red dot is Tropicana Field.
Demographic breakdown:
- Estimated Population: 41,443
- Median Income: $37,407
- Average Age: 33.0
- White: 21,790 (52.6%)
- Black: 14,849 (35.8%)
- Hispanic: 7,279 (17.6%)
- Rays fans: 11,190 (54% of baseball fans)
- Yankees fans: 3,523 (17% of baseball fans)
- Red Sox fans: 1,451 (7% of baseball fans)
- Distance to Tropicana Field: 31.1 miles
- Distance to Steinbrenner Field: 11.2 miles
- Distance to Bright House Field: 27.8 miles
- Distance to Florida Auto Exchange Stadium: 33.4 miles
- Distance to McKechnie Field: 50.8 miles
- Distance to Toytown: 23.7 miles
- Distance to Tampa Park Apartments: 9.1 miles