Monday, January 11, 2016

Crazy stat of the day: suspended licenses

VTDigger reports that 59,000 Vermonters have suspended licenses.  For a state with just over 600,000 people, that sounds insanely high.  If there only about 460,000 people of driving age (and not all of them have licenses), then likely somewhere between 1 in 7 and 1 in 8 drivers have a suspended license** in Vermont. 

Poking around, this article suggests 1 in 10 for drivers nationwide (and 1 in 7 in Florida), so Vermont is hardly out of the norm for the U.S.  Just wow.


** I'd like to guess less about the number of licensed drivers in VT, but this site suggests there are 549,000 licensed drivers in VT, which clearly isn't right.

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