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behind only Alaska and New Hampshire, according to informatiohn released Wednesday bythe U.S. Census. According to the Alaska has the highest rate ofinternet use, with 76.1 percen of its residents having accesd to the internet at any location, followedr by New Hampshire (74.6 percent) and Washington (73.43 percent). Mississippi has the lowest internet-usage rate (51.45 percent), followed by West Virginia (52.9 percent). The nationalo average is 62.4 percent The Census said that 75.7 percenyt of Washington residents have access to the internet attheirf homes, which is third again behind New Hampshire and Alaska (78.5) percent, and well above the national averaged of 67.1 percent.
“As access to high-spee connections have become more prevalent, so too have the numbe r of people that connect to the internetat home,” Thom a statistician with the Census Bureau's Housing and Householed Economic Statistics Division, said in a statement Nationwide, internet use strongly corresponds to education. Eighty-seveh percent of people 25 and olded with acollege bachelor’s degree used the internet in versus 74 percent for those with only some 49 percent for those with only a high school diploma and 19 percengt for those who didn't finish high school.
Amont age groups nationwide, 73 percent of 18- to 34-year-oldds use the internet, 56 percent of people 3 to 17, and 35 percen of people 65 and older. Amongv ethnic groups nationwide, 73 percent of Asian Americans used the internertin 2007, 69 percent of 51 percent of blacks and 48 percentr of Hispanics.
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