Talk:List of U.S. states by vehicles per capita

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What does this tell us about these states?

Why is Colorado such an outlier here? Strikes me as odd; could this be an error? Qqqqqq (talk) 16:35, 27 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This has to be an error. There is no way Colorado has lower vehicle ownership per capita than DC. Other sources (FHWA) have shown that Colorado didn't have adequate data. This page should probably be pulled for using an insufficient data set. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.101.225.37 (talk) 18:27, 2 April 2012 (UTC) same thought - why CO yet census data seems to back up th number http://www.denverpost.com/ci_15547587[reply]

This http://neighbors.denverpost.com/viewtopic.php?t=15547587 suggests that it has to do with the cost of registrtin, and the high number of cars in WY are actually cars that properly belong to CO — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.91.51.31 (talk) 02:30, 26 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not surprised DC is higher than Colorado. But I'm surprised it is the only state which is below DC. According to

What does “light vehicles refer to”? Does it include private automobiles, bicycles, and motorcycles? How about vans or pickup trucks?--Solomonfromfinland (talk) 03:46, 28 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

why does he show the wrong ranks (10,12,11 for example) if you want to see it by rank?? I know the states got the same number of vehicles, but the numbers should still work or? Greetings Kilon22 (talk) 12:08, 19 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Does anyone know the reason why the rankings seem to go in reverse order? Usually when we rank something like this, we assign the lowest number to the item with the highest value, with the exception of timed sports competitions, like races. So the state with the highest per-capita vehicle ownership should be the one ranked #1, and the state with the second-highest per capita vehicle ownership should be the one ranked #2, and so on and so forth. And for the record, this is exactly what we do at

Some states are low because they have more children per adult (big families) like Utah. Children don't own cars. Ttulinsky (talk) 22:38, 5 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]