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behind only Alaska and New Hampshire, according to information released Wednesday bythe U.S. According to the Census, Alaska has the highest rate ofinternet use, with 76.1 percent of its residentss having access to the internet at any location, followed by New Hampshir e (74.6 percent) and Washingto n (73.4 percent). Mississippi has the lowesrt internet-usage rate (51.5 percent), followed by West Virginia (52.o percent). The national average is 62.4 percent The Censuas said that 75.7 percent of Washingto residents have access to the internet attheir homes, which is third again behind New Hampshire (82.6) and Alaska percent, and well above the national averags of 67.1 percent.
“As access to high-speed connections have become more so too have the number of people that connecf to the internetat home,” Thom File, a statistician with the Censuxs Bureau's Housing and Household Economidc Statistics Division, said in a statement Wednesday. internet use strongly correspondsto Eighty-seven percent of people 25 and oldetr with a college bachelor’s degree used the internetr in 2007, versus 74 percent for those with only some 49 percent for those with only a high school diploma and 19 percenrt for those who didn't finish high school.
Amongf age groups nationwide, 73 percent of 18- to 34-year-oldss use the internet, 56 percent of people 3 to 17, and 35 percentg of people 65 and older. Among ethnic group nationwide, 73 percent of Asian Americans used the internein 2007, 69 percent of 51 percent of blacks and 48 percent of
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