Bicycle commuting by State.

I found this table on the Biking Bis website. The whole post is about commuting and how it is climbing. He also talks about the percentage of women who commute by bicycle being an indicator, where the more women you have commuting, the more bicycle-friendly your community is. It's a good article, I highly recommend reading it.

What I really found interesting was the percentage of bicycle commuters per state, and where each state ranked. More specifically, where my state, Utah, ranked in comparison to everyone else. I made it easy to find Utah, but in case you are still having a problem, it's located somewhere between numbers 16 and 18. Here are all the states, including District of Columbia and Puerto Rico (the national average is 0.545%)

1. District of Columbia 2.334833%
2. Oregon 2.091982
3 .Idaho 1.516836
4 .Montana 1.449877
5 .Colorado 1.249676
6 .New Mexico 1.019163
7 .Wyoming 1.015782
8 .California 0.994617
9 .Hawaii 0.954369
10 .Washington 0.905223
11 .Arizona 0.865028
12 .Minnesota 0.864148
13 .Alaska 0.823371
14 .North Dakota 0.819927
15 .Wisconsin 0.737054
16 .Massachusetts 0.715799
17 .Utah 0.711098
18 .Vermont 0.645284
19 .Florida 0.601341
20 .Illinois 0.536436
21 .Maine 0.528803
22 .South Dakota 0.515014
23 .Iowa 0.482668
24 .Nebraska 0.472913
25 .New York 0.468634
26 .Nevada 0.452915
27 .Michigan 0.449389
28 .Indiana 0.435365
29 .Pennsylvania 0.412423
30 .Virginia 0.403295
31 .Kansas 0.389714
32 .Louisiana 0.360399
33 .Ohio 0.33633
34 .New Hampshire 0.321317
35 .Maryland 0.32044
36 .New Jersey 0.309701
37 .Puerto Rico 0.301092
38 .Rhode Island 0.298716
39 .Delaware 0.29775
40 .Oklahoma 0.262248
41 .Texas 0.258984
42 .North Carolina 0.237646
43 .Mississippi 0.237536
44 .Connecticut 0.234513
45 .South Carolina 0.227007
46 .Missouri 0.207202
47 .Georgia 0.203892
48 .Kentucky 0.190421
49 .Tennessee 0.160865
50 .West Virginia 0.157637
51 .Arkansas 0.128605
52 .Alabama 0.128286

Not surprisingly. All of the top 10, with the exception of the District of Columbia, are in the west, and also not surprisingly is that Oregon is #2 (thanks in no small part to cycling meccas Portland and Eugene). What completely blows my mind is who is occupying the #3 position. Idaho?!?!? I have been to Idaho many times and even taken my bicycle there on several occasions. I don't remember really seeing other cyclists while there. Also that the percentage of commuters who travel by bicycle for Idaho is more than double that of Utah.

I don't get it. Maybe I'm missing something. If there are any Idahoans who read this, please enlighten me, invite me to come ride with you and show me. Let me know where all of this cycling is happening, because I sure didn't see any of it.

I won't even get into some of the other states that beat Utah. Alaska?!? are you kidding me. Come on, Utah, step up!