Young, urban dwellers are most likely to read community blogs The proportion dealing of community internet users within each group who read a blog dealing with community issues in the preceding 12 months
Fourteen percent (14%) of internet users – or 11% of all American adults – read a blog dealing with community issues in the twelve months preceding our survey, making community blogs as common as email communications as a way to keep up with neighborhood events. In contrast to face-to-face, telephone and email interactions, neighborhood blogs are relatively popular with young adults: 16% of online 18-29 year olds read a blog dealing with community issues, similar to the rate for those ages 30-64 (15%) and significantly higher than internet users 65 and older (9% of whom have done so).
Community blogs are particularly popular among residents of urban areas, as 17% of wired urbanites read a blog dealing with community issues. This is significantly higher than the 11% online rural residents who read such blogs. Online whites (14%), blacks (18%) and Hispanics (13%) are equally likely to read community blogs, and there is relatively little variation on this question based on income and education.
Young, urban dwellers are most  | likely to read community blogs  | The proportion dealing of community internet users within each group who read a  | blog dealing with community issues in the preceding 12 months  | 16  | 15  | 13  | By age  | 18-29  | 30-49  | 50-64  | 65+  | 18  | 14  | ethnicity By racel  | 13  | ethnicity By racel  | Hispanic  | White  | Black  | 17  | 13  | By locale  | 11  | Urban  | Suburban  | Rural  | Source: Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, November 30- December  | 27 2009 Tracking Methodology Survey N=2 258 adults 18 and older, including 1 .676 internet users  | Please see the Methodology section for margin of error calculations  | Pew Internet 