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 34655:
The red outline is zip code 34655. The red dot is Tropicana Field.
Demographic breakdown:
- Estimated Population: 38,464
- Median Income: $54,503
- Average Age: 47.3
- White: 35,954 (93.5%)
- Black: 616 (1.6%)
- Hispanic: 2,403 (6.2%)
- Rays fans: 8,847 (46% of baseball fans)
- Yankees fans: 3,654 (19% of baseball fans)
- Red Sox fans: 2,116 (11% of baseball fans)
- Distance to Tropicana Field: 33.9 miles
- Distance to Steinbrenner Field: 25.3 miles
- Distance to Bright House Field: 19.4 miles
- Distance to Florida Auto Exchange Stadium: 19 miles
- Distance to McKechnie Field: 57.6 miles
- Distance to Toytown: 26.2 miles
- Distance to Tampa Park Apartments: 34.4 miles