60% of the U.S. population lives within 700 miles of Columbus Ohio?

[KarlGauss]

@TimeWinder

That’s a 1,400 mile radius circle, which includes most of the east coast. Population is heavily skewed east in the US:

Sorry, can’t resist: the radius is 700 miles, so that makes the diameter 1400 miles.
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[TimeWinder]

@KarlGauss

Sorry, can’t resist: the radius is 700 miles, so that makes the diameter 1400 miles.
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I believe my 5th grade math teacher would agree with you, although not about it being a nitpick.

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

@ftg

Drawing 700 miles around Cincinnati gives a bit more of N. FL, but you lose the Boston area.

Northwest Florida is pretty sparsely populated. Keep Boston.

[BMalion]

Is Cleveland in there?

Thank God.

[RickJay]

@TimeWinder

Not sure why that’s so astounding. That’s a 1,400 mile radius circle, which includes most of the east coast. Population is heavily skewed east in the US:

http://www.mapofusa.net/us-population-density-map.htm

Perhaps more interesting is that (and I’m guessing), I’d bet it includes more than half the population of Canada, too.

700 miles (direct, not driving distance) from Columbus includes the great majority of the population of Ontario and quite a bit more than than half the population of Quebec, which should get you over half the country. Canada’s population is very unevenly distributed.

[dtilque]

It’s possible that this is a fact that is no longer true, but once was. With the continual shift in the population to the south and west, it will eventually become not true, if it hasn’t already. Perhaps that happened with the last census.

[johnspartan]

Less amazing fact: If you drew a 700 mile circle around Columbus, Ohio, people would wonder what the hell you were doing.

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

Board needs “like” button.

[ElvisL1ves]

@johnspartan

Less amazing fact: If you drew a 700 mile circle around Columbus, Ohio, people would wonder what the hell you were doing.

That’s something my old hometown has been promoting for decades, right up there with it being a wonderful test market because it’s so average and so isolated. The 700-mile distance equates to about 1 day by truck, so the point is that Columbus is a great location for transportation-dependent businesses.