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 34205:
The red outline is zip code 34205. The red dot is Tropicana Field.
Demographic breakdown:
- Estimated Population: 29,656
- Median Income: $35,921
- Average Age: 41.0
- White: 23,395 (78.9%)
- Black: 3,029 (10.2%)
- Hispanic: 5,473 (18.5%)
- Rays fans: 7,117 (48% of baseball fans)
- Yankees fans: 1,631 (11% of baseball fans)
- Red Sox fans: 1,186 (8% of baseball fans)
- Distance to Tropicana Field: 26.6 miles
- Distance to Steinbrenner Field: 46.2 miles
- Distance to Bright House Field: 43.1 miles
- Distance to Florida Auto Exchange Stadium: 48.7 miles
- Distance to McKechnie Field: 1.3 miles
- Distance to Toytown: 33.6 miles
- Distance to Tampa Park Apartments: 46.8 miles