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Well, yes. But California _also_ has the highest population of the states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories...

Might be more fruitful to look at a per-capita metric?

Imagine a state that has only two houses, both with a pool. 3 people live in one house, 1 person lives in the other. That’s 0.5 pools per capita, but for our purposes is a sufficient number of pools - 1 pool per structure.

So, we're in the low double-digits in terms of percentage? Seems like relatively few.

As in, it's not uncommon to live here and not know anyone with a pool.

Silly metric though. We have the most people/homes so of course we have the most pools. Arizona kicks our ass in the number of pools per person though.