|
|
The following map shows how much demand for a new disc golf course exists throughout the lower 48 states. Darker colors represent more demand. Any new course located in an area shaded black could be expected to be more than filled up with players.
Demand for a course at a specific location is defined as the percentage increase in service levels times the number of people around the area, if a new course were to be installed. A high demand is the result of a lot of people around, and not enough courses to satisfy them. This map shows demand for a hypothetical new 18-hole disc golf course.For more details on the formulas for Demand, see Service Levels Formulas200910.pdf
Here is another way to look at demand. For this graph, I computed the number of people that live closer to a census tract than the nearest disc golf course.
For example, for someone living in Glenn cove, NY the nearest course is 22.1 miles away in Waveny Park, in New Canaan, CT. Within that 22.1 mile radius, there are almost 10 million people. At the other end of the scale, someone living in Manhattan, NV (that's NEVADA) is over 50 miles away from the nearest in Highland Park, in Tonopah, NV. Yet, the census only shows 5,400 people living within that 50 mile radius.
This method has some problems that would hinder its ability to predict the demand for a new course, but because the computations are so much simpler, it can show finer detail - at least around heavily populated areas.
|
|