This page illustrates conditions for finding women in the urbanized area Bloomington—Normal in the state of Illinois.

The scenario

We will jump straight to an example that we will concentrate on for the remainder of the article. Let's assume you are a man, looking for women in the 20-29 age range. According to data released by the American Community Survey (2015 edition) there are 152 women for every 100 men living in Bloomington—Normal Metropolitan Area in this group.

"When looking for someone to love, you may have wondered which neighborhoods have the highest concentration of women."

This is, however, the average for the urbanized area as a whole. But when looking for someone to love, you may have wondered which neighborhoods have the highest concentration of women. A clickable list of locations with the highest number of women per 100 men is available in a window on the interactive map. You can therefore easily see that if you travel perhaps sixty miles northwest from the center to Eureka the number of potential available women could be considerably higher. This is because a higher amount of women compared to men live there, in the selected age range.

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Area of abundance in Eureka

The statistics show that 439 men live in ZIP code area 61530 of Eureka, as shown on the map above. In the same age group, 545 women live there. So, for every 100 men, there will be 124 women to choose from. In theory, your chances should be good!

With this tool you have an edge in the dating market. Maybe this is even your favorite nightlife district, filled with opportunities to meet girls looking for men. But maybe it isn't. We have no idea. Not to worry. The area of abundance was selected through an automatic process giving us a place with a good gender ratio for men looking to mate, and at the same time not sparsely populated. There are many other areas with a high proportion of women, easily identified in green on the map.

Your hunt can in fact span the whole planet. We have data for nearly every country there is, and for many of them down to a local level. Have a go yourself, and feel free to leave your comments below.