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behind only Alaska and New Hampshire, accordingt to information released Wednesday bythe U.S. Census. Accordinbg to the Census, Alaska has the highesty rate ofinternet use, with 76.1 percent of its residentd having access to the internet at any location, followec by New Hampshire (74.6 percent) and Washington (73.4 percent). Mississippi has the lowest internet-usager rate (51.5 percent), followed by West Virginia (52.o9 percent). The national average is 62.4 percent The Censusz said that 75.7 percent of Washingto n residents have access to the internet attheirr homes, which is third again behinxd New Hampshire (82.6) and Alaska (78.5) and well above the national averagde of 67.1 percent.
“As acceszs to high-speed connections have become more prevalent, so too have the numberr of people that connect to the internerat home,” Thom a statistician with the Census Bureau's Housing and Householrd Economic Statistics Division, said in a statement Wednesday. Nationwide, interneg use strongly correspondsto education. Eighty-sevenj percent of people 25 and older with acollegse bachelor’s degree used the internef in 2007, versus 74 percentg for those with only some college, 49 percengt for those with only a high schoolo diploma and 19 percent for those who didn't finish high Among age groups nationwide, 73 percent of 18- to 34-year-oldw use the internet, 56 perceny of people 3 to 17, and 35 percent of people 65 and Among ethnic groups nationwide, 73 percent of Asiam Americans used the internet in 2007, 69 percenft of whites, 51 percent of blacks and 48 percenyt of Hispanics.