quadratdackel
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New forum, new demographic tidbit to ponder.
The question is: What is Boston (or any other city, neighborhood, etc)'s average population, i.e. the average number of people present over the course of, say, one year? So if you live and work in Boston and never ever leave, then you count as 1 person. If you spend a third of your time in Boston (for example, by working 8 hour days there, maybe plus some commuting and other time and minus some days off), then you count as a third of a person, and so on.
For a town like Boston, this is going to be much higher than the official population of 569,000, since (according to [1]) we have:
* 375,000 people commute in for work
* 14,000 overnight (hotel) guests
* 52,000 people coming in every day for shopping
* 45,000 people commute in for school
* 9,000 hospital in-patients: patients + visitors
* 23,000 hospital out-patients: patients + visitors
Plus we have
* Red Sox total attendance: 2.8M. Celtics: 700K, Bruins: 600K. Couldn't find non-sports Fenway or Garden numbers.
* Marathon + July 4 + misc: 1M total (my estimate)
OK, I gotta run right now, so I'm going to have to come back to this.
1 - link - pdf Old (1996) but informative publication from the BRA
The question is: What is Boston (or any other city, neighborhood, etc)'s average population, i.e. the average number of people present over the course of, say, one year? So if you live and work in Boston and never ever leave, then you count as 1 person. If you spend a third of your time in Boston (for example, by working 8 hour days there, maybe plus some commuting and other time and minus some days off), then you count as a third of a person, and so on.
For a town like Boston, this is going to be much higher than the official population of 569,000, since (according to [1]) we have:
* 375,000 people commute in for work
* 14,000 overnight (hotel) guests
* 52,000 people coming in every day for shopping
* 45,000 people commute in for school
* 9,000 hospital in-patients: patients + visitors
* 23,000 hospital out-patients: patients + visitors
Plus we have
* Red Sox total attendance: 2.8M. Celtics: 700K, Bruins: 600K. Couldn't find non-sports Fenway or Garden numbers.
* Marathon + July 4 + misc: 1M total (my estimate)
OK, I gotta run right now, so I'm going to have to come back to this.
1 - link - pdf Old (1996) but informative publication from the BRA