NCLIS Preliminary 2002 Rank Order Tables
Table A2, part 1
Circulation Transactions per capita

State 2002
rank
Circulation
transactions per
capita*
50 States and DC . 6.85
     
Ohio 1 14.63
Oregon 2 13.41
Utah 3 11.70
Indiana 4 11.69
Kansas 5 10.10
Washington 6 10.09
Colorado 7 9.93
Minnesota 8 9.69
Wisconsin 8 9.69
Maryland 10 9.42
Iowa 11 9.05
Connecticut 12 8.90
Nebraska 13 8.65
Virginia 14 8.48
South Dakota 15 8.36
Illinois 16 7.89
Idaho 17 7.87
Wyoming 18 7.82
Missouri 19 7.73
Massachusetts 20 7.59
North Dakota 21 7.36
New Hampshire 22 7.29
Maine 23 7.08
Arizona 24 6.97
New York 25 6.93
Rhode Island 26 6.78
Vermont 27 6.72
New Jersey 28 6.26
Delaware 29 6.17
Oklahoma 30 5.93
Hawaii 31 5.83
Alaska 32 5.79
Michigan 33 5.76
Montana 34 5.66
Nevada 35 5.50
North Carolina 36 5.37
Kentucky 37 5.36
California 38 5.28
Florida 39 5.27
Pennsylvania 40 5.08
New Mexico 41 4.94
Georgia 42 4.79
South Carolina 43 4.65
Texas 44 4.50
Arkansas 45 4.27
West Virginia 46 4.25
Louisiana 47 4.05
Tennessee 48 3.98
Alabama 49 3.83
Mississippi 50 3.27
District of Columbia** 51 2.14
* Per capita is based on the unduplicated population of legal service areas.
** The District of Columbia, while not a state, is included in the state rankings
special care should be using in comparing its data to state data.