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 34698:
The red outline is zip code 34698. The red dot is Tropicana Field.
Demographic breakdown:
- Estimated Population: 37,240
- Median Income: $47,291
- Average Age: 52.7
- White: 34,139 (91.7%)
- Black: 1,187 (3.2%)
- Hispanic: 2,165 (5.8%)
- Rays fans: 9,124 (49% of baseball fans)
- Yankees fans: 3,016 (16% of baseball fans)
- Red Sox fans: 1,117 (7% of baseball fans)
- Distance to Tropicana Field: 25.0 miles
- Distance to Steinbrenner Field: 20.3 miles
- Distance to Bright House Field: 8.1 miles
- Distance to Florida Auto Exchange Stadium: 2.4 miles
- Distance to McKechnie Field: 48.8 miles
- Distance to Toytown: 18.3 miles
- Distance to Tampa Park Apartments: 25.8 miles