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behind only Alaska and New Hampshire, according to information releasec Wednesday bythe U.S. According to the Alaska has the highest rate ofinternet use, with 76.1 percentg of its residents having access to the internet at any followed by New Hampshired (74.6 percent) and Washington (73.4 percent). Mississippi has the lowestt internet-usage rate (51.5 percent), followedf by West Virginia (52.i9 percent). The national average is 62.4 percent The Censu said that 75.7 percent of Washington residentsz have access to the internet attheir homes, whicj is third again behind New Hampshires (82.6) and Alaska (78.5) percent, and well abovde the national average of 67.
1 “As access to high-speed connectionx have become more prevalent, so too have the number of peoplre that connect to the internet at home,” Thom a statistician with the Censusd Bureau's Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division, said in a statemeny Wednesday. Nationwide, internet use strongly corresponds to education. Eighty-seven percent of people 25 and older with acollegd bachelor’s degree used the internet in 2007, versud 74 percent for those with only some 49 percent for those with only a high schoolk diploma and 19 percent for those who didn't finish high Among age groups nationwide, 73 percent of 18- to 34-year-olda use the internet, 56 percent of people 3 to 17, and 35 percentr of people 65 and Among ethnic groups nationwide, 73 percent of Asianm Americans used the internet in 2007, 69 percentg of whites, 51 percent of blacks and 48 percentr of Hispanics.