MINI Circuits – Missing States

Posted on by Ian C.

Regular readers will know of my fascination with numbers (such as 42!); last year this evolved into finding where all the shipped MINI circuits ended up, by cross-referencing the ZIP code with TIGER map. The resulting “map of USA” looks like this:

Yesterday I shipped MINI circuit #750! Astonishing for a “hobby” where I originally debated whether or not to make as many as 30 …

The most popular ZIP codes are: 02138, 22182, 27502, 28277, 44612, 90026, 91001 (thanks RB!), 92610, 94127, 95062 (most popular of all) and 98499.

But even with 750 shipped, to 562 different ZIP codes, I have never shipped a MINI circuit to: Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, South Dakota, West Virginia or Wyoming.

So … the first person from each of those states to order a MINI circuit gets a special deal 🙂

2005/07/15: Thanks Craig – Iowa now filled in!
2005/10/05: Thanks John – Mississippi now filled in!
2005/10/24: Thanks Jim – Wyoming now filled in!
2005/10/28: Thanks Michael – South Dakota now filled in!
2005/12/19: Thanks David – Kentucky now filled in!

18 thoughts on “MINI Circuits – Missing States”

  1. My pleasure……Now let’s see……so far, I have ordered 3.

    My daughter loves the AutoUp and of course her MC that you helped me get for her.

    I was wondering which state has the most Mini’s ? I wonder if there is a way to find out that little bit-o-info?

    Congrats Ian, I hope you’ve made a few pennies for all your trouble! I still think you could sell them to dealers or folks like OutMotoring and such, but then I like eggs.

    You still sound like David Hobbs, to me and look a bit like the chap also, hope that’s not a slam. Of course I meant the younger Hobbs.

    RB

  2. “I have never shipped a MINI circuit to: Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, South Dakota, West Virginia or Wyoming.”

    How about Hawaii or Alaska? Do they have Mini’s there?

  3. Yes … 2 to Alaska and 5 to Hawaii; unfortunately I don’t know how to make the Tiger map plot those US states.

    Of course there are also quite a few MINI circuits in non-US locations: Australia, Austria, Canada, England, Germany, Greece and Switzerland; can’t plot those either!

  7. Ian, pretty cool.

    FYI, there is now a MINI dealership in Charlotte, NC although it has only opened in the last few months.

  8. I can see my dot! I guess I’m the only person with the circuit in the NW corner of Georgia.

    This mod is something that I use every day. It’s great….thanks Ian!

    Rawhyde

  9. Thanks Lee – MINI dealership @ 28227 now added 😉
    MINI USA should remember to tell me when they open a new dealership!

  10. Hey, if you send me that list of zips, I can make a google map from it! 🙂 It’ll be easier if you include the lat/lon, too.

  12. Oh yeah… google maps. When I helped Ian do this the first time, there was no google maps. 🙂 I’m not sure if it would be easier to do with google maps or the way it is being done now, since I haven’t hacked google maps at all.

  13. The latitude/longitude marker file for TIGER is here – the first block (marked “statehwy1”) are the dealerships and the rest (with various “reddot” sizes) are the MINI circuit locations – a bigger “reddot” indicates multiple circuits at the same ZIP code.
    What can you do with it?

  14. Josh – did some circuits per head of population calculations, and New Hampshire is the winner: 8 circuits with only 1.25 million population!

    Massachusetts and other close-by states are somewhat biased due to me not having ZIP codes for many of the people I have installed for … there are 48 circuits either hand-delivered or installed.
    Also, 11 circuits went to Sin City MINI club, unknown ZIP codes – but if I put them all in Nevada that would make Nevada tie with New Hampshire!

    Massachusetts would tie with New Hampshire if it had 18 more ZIP codes – I don’t think there are that many unaccounted for.

    Below New Hampshire is:
    Virginia (5.2/million)
    Hawaii! (4.0/million – another small population)
    California (3.9/million – 134 circuits, but a population of 34 million!)

    Phew! Hope you appreciated that 😉

  15. I posted about my efforts. I’m pretty happy with the result thus far.

    I take a great deal of pride in being one of the few in Indiana with a circuit. 🙂

  16. North Dakota here Representin
    I am half tempted to order one to my address in WV just to see what the special deal is…

  17. Thanks Ian…see how some data crunching always brings up interesting discussion!

    blalor that is really great. The green dot that I assume is for me is only a few streets away (Ian you do have my zip I hope)

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