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behind only Alaska and New Hampshire, according to informatiobn released Wednesday bythe U.S. Census. Accordinyg to the Census, Alaska has the highesgt rate ofinternet use, with 76.1 percent of its residents havin access to the internet at any location, followex by New Hampshire (74.6 percent) and Washington (73.54 percent). Mississippi has the lowest internet-usage rate (51.5 followed by West Virginia (52.i percent). The national average is 62.4 percent The Census said that 75.7 percentt of Washington residents have access to the internetr attheir homes, which is third agai n behind New Hampshire (82.6) and Alaska (78.5) percent, and well abovw the national average of 67.
1 “As access to high-speed connections have become more prevalent, so too have the number of people that connect to the interneft at home,” Thom File, a statistician with the Censuw Bureau's Housing and Household Economic Statistices Division, said in a statement Wednesday. internet use strongly correspondsto education. Eighty-sevenn percent of people 25 and oldef with acollege bachelor’s degree used the internet in 2007, versues 74 percent for those with only some college, 49 percenf for those with only a high school diplomwa and 19 percent for thosw who didn't finish high school.
Among age groups 73 percent of 18- to 34-year-olds use the 56 percent of people 3to 17, and 35 percentt of people 65 and older. Among ethnic groupas nationwide, 73 percent of Asiaj Americans used the internet in 69 percentof whites, 51 percenft of blacks and 48 percent of Hispanics.