A new analysis of U.S. spending habits finds that residents of Long Island suburb Huntington, NY, spend four times more than the national average on video games.
Financial analytics firm Bundle
ranked the video game spending of the 100 largest U.S. cities by looking at anonymized spending data for GameStop, EBGames and Steam provided by the U.S. government and third-party data providers, such as credit card companies.
Fellow New York City suburb North Hempstead, NY, came in second in terms of per capita game spending, with 2.32 times the national average. Laredo, TX, Chesapeake, VA and Modesto, CA rounded out the top five, each near or above two times the national spending average.
An
abstracted map of Bundle's results shows the heaviest game spending in U.S. cities concentrated primarily in the Northeast, Midwest and South, though certain cities in Southern Texas, California and Colorado also show high spending.
The lowest ranked major cities for per capita game spending are primarily in the South, Midwest and Pacific Nowrthwest. Seattle, WA, appears to rank as one of the lowest-ranked major cities for video game spending, a somewhat surprising result for an area known as a game development hub.
The Top 50 cities from Bundle's ranking -- along with how the top 20 compare to the national average -- are listed below:
1. Huntington, New York - 4.08 times the national average
2. North Hempstead, New York - 2.32 times the national average
3. Laredo, Texas - 2.23 times the national average
4. Chesapeake, Virginia - 2.12 times the national average
5. Modesto, California - 1.99 times the national average
6. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - 1.99 times the national average
7. El Paso, Texas - 1.97 times the national average
8. Cincinnati, Ohio - 1.95 times the national average
9. Buffalo, New York - 1.88 times the national average
10. Virginia Beach, Virginia - 1.82 times the national average
11. Rochester, New York - 1.77 times the national average
12. Birmingham, Alabama - 1.77 times the national average
13. Miami, Florida - 1.72 times the national average
14. Honolulu, Hawaii - 1.69 times the national average
15. Toledo, Ohio - 1.66 times the national average
16. Baton Rouge, Louisiana - 1.57 times the national average
17. Corpus Christi, Texas - 1.50 times the national average
18. Plano, Texas - 1.47 times the national average
19. Fresno, California - 1.47 times the national average
20. St. Louis, Missouri - 1.37 times the national average
21. San Antonio, Texas
22. Wichita, Kansas
23. Montgomery, Alabama
24. Tulsa, Oklahoma
25. Hialeah, Florida
26. Riverside, California
27. Lubbock, Texas
28. San Bernardino, California
29. Fort Worth, Texas
30. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
31. Fort Wayne, Indiana
32. Bakersfield, California
33. Lexington-Fayette, Kentucky
34. Chula Vista, California
35. Albuquerque, New Mexico
36. Akron, Ohio
37. Jacksonville, Florida
38. Greensboro, North Carolina
39. Tucson, Arizona
40. Raleigh, North Carolina
41. Stockton, California
42. Arlington, Texas
43. Durham, North Carolina
44. Long Beach, California
45. Chandler, Arizona
46. Lincoln, Nebraska
47. Anchorage, Alaska
48. New York, New York
49. Milwaukee, Wisconsin
50. Aurora, Colorado
