Poll results on where readers live

The poll last week was simple and non-controversial but it got the highest vote count out of any poll I’ve done.  Four hundred twenty one of you voted. During the week the site had 2,910 unique visitors so that is nearly a 15% participation rate.  Here is the question and final results:

Q: Where do you currently live?

1. City of St. Louis 226 [54%]
2. St. Louis County (inside I-270) 78 [19%]
3. St. Louis County (outside I-270) 33 [8%]
4. Elsewhere in the United States 32 [8%]
5. Metro East (IL) 16 [4%]
6. St. Charles County, MO 8 [2%]
7. Chicago metro 6 [1%]
8. Kansas City metro 5 [1%]
9. Other answer… 5 [1%]
10. New York City metro 3 [1%]
11. Other Missouri 3 [1%]
12. UK 2 [0%]
13. Jefferson County, MO 2 [0%]
14. Country other than USA, CAN or UK 2 [0%]
15. Canada 0 [0%]

From the above I count 363 (86%) as being part of the St. Louis metro area.  I personally consider the “core” of the region to be the City of St. Louis and the part of St. Louis County inside I-270.  Actually the core is tighter than that but I-270 was a good reference line.  So 304 (72%) are part of the core as I just defined it. These numbers confirmed what I knew from my site statistics.