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California - Average Distance to Nearest Airport

This page presents statistics and a map.
See information on how and why they were computed.

19.73 mi. = mean distance of a person to his or her nearest major airport
Percent of population within a given distance of a major airport:
PercentileDistance (mi.)
10th percentile4.40
25th percentile7.43
50th percentile (median)12.77
75th percentile25.59
90th percentile42.59
Max158.25



This map displays the major airports in and around California. It shows how the state can divided according to which airport is the closest as the crow flies.

The flags are a sample of 500 census tracts (of 8,024 tracts total) within the state.

On the above map, some census tract flags may look like they are colored for one airport's region but are actually in another airport's region. The census tract flags are colored with which airport they are closest to as the crow flies along the surface of the earth (the Haversine distance formula). The region boundaries that are displayed on map were computed assuming assuming the earth is flat. (The lines that divide regions are a Voronoi diagram, and I couldn't find any algorithm that calculate the lines on a sphere such as the earth.) In short, although a few census tracts may look like they're mislabeled near a boundary, it's actually the boundary that is slightly wrong.

37,253,956 = total population of California
Table of most useful airports: (i.e., the airports that are the closest major airport for the most people)
Airport Code Number of People for whom this is their closest airport
Bob Hope AirportBUR4,386,812
Ontario International AirportONT3,913,885
Sacramento International AirportSMF3,618,688
Oakland International AirportOAK3,459,139
Long Beach Airport (Daugherty Field)LGB3,283,900
Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International AirportSJC3,215,195
San Diego International AirportSAN3,037,797
John Wayne Airport - Orange County (was Orange County Airport)SNA2,576,297
Los Angeles International AirportLAX2,455,765
Fresno Yosemite International AirportFAT1,772,144
San Francisco International AirportSFO1,318,275
Palm Springs International AirportPSP1,125,614
Meadows FieldBFL937,682
Santa Barbara Municipal AirportSBA643,621
Monterey Regional AirportMRY572,406
San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport (McChesney Field)SBP433,341
Rogue Valley International-Medford AirportMFR358,815
Reno-Tahoe International AirportRNO124,201
Laughlin/Bullhead International AirportIFP20,379

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