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 33578:
The red outline is zip code 33578. The red dot is Tropicana Field.
Demographic breakdown:
- Estimated Population: 36,693
- Median Income: $56,027
- Average Age: 33.2
- White: 24,893 (67.8%)
- Black: 6,989 (19%)
- Hispanic: 7,866 (21.4%)
- Rays fans: 9,357 (51% of baseball fans)
- Yankees fans: 3,486 (19% of baseball fans)
- Red Sox fans: 917 (5% of baseball fans)
- Distance to Tropicana Field: 38.0 miles
- Distance to Steinbrenner Field: 20.5 miles
- Distance to Bright House Field: 34.5 miles
- Distance to Florida Auto Exchange Stadium: 40 miles
- Distance to McKechnie Field: 32.7 miles
- Distance to Toytown: 30.3 miles
- Distance to Tampa Park Apartments: 15.6 miles