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Useful Stats II: 64 Most-Wired Metro Markets Identified
According to a study by Scarborough Research, a market research firm, Salt Lake City leads the country with 73 percent of households owning a PC. San Francisco and Washington DC follow closely behind with 72 and 71 percent respectively. The average home PC penetration across the 64 metropolitan markets measured is 59 percent. The survey, which has been done since 1997, found even the lowest ranked cities were nearing 50 percent; computers are in the homes of 46 percent of 64th-ranked Charleston, West Virginia.
The increasing importance of computers and the Internet also is evident. Two-thirds of all households with computers have Internet access. San Francisco, at the top of the list, has 75 percent of its homes with computers connected to the Net.
The standings could change fast, however, with 19 percent of all households currently without computers planning to purchase one in the next year.
The statistics and rankings for all 64 metro areas included in the study can be found at: http://www.scarborough.com/scarb2000/press/pr_hhpc_data.htm