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- We recently ranked all 50 US states and Washington, DC based on how average each state was.
- The ranking was based on 38 social, economic, and demographic measures, mostly from the Census Bureau's 2017 American Community Survey.
- We measured how far each state was from the average among the states and DC for each of those measures, and added those together to make a combined "averageness" score.
We recently ranked all 50 US states and Washington, DC based on how average each state was. Here's how we did it.
We took 38 social, economic, and demographic measures, mostly from the 2017 American Community Survey one-year estimates recently released by the Census Bureau, accessed via the American FactFinder tool. The full list of measures is at the bottom of this post.
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