I don't think there is anything generally available like that. You might be able to find some of the board meeting notes with some of the data I guess.
The best I can think of right now is using the Top Players by state option and manually generating some numbers, but that will be very limited.
http://main.uschess.org/datapage/top-players.php
Wow, that's a good suggestion, Martin. Not too many states have more than 1000 active players (the max option), so that's a very useful method. It gives me an idea, even if I don't actually choose to crunch the numbers.
I Googled your question and it led me back here, and also to http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/a-few-statistics-from-the-uscf-database, which does not answer your question.
You can easily find the chessplaying population for each state simply by clicking on the profile of any player from X state. That profile will tell you the player's rank out of however many registered players there are in that state.
For example the USCF thing says I am usually around #150 of 1400ish players in Maryland.
6/575 for me .. state 99 percentile
1237/55804 nationally 97.8 percentile
interesting
I'm noticing that many states vary greatly in their active USCF player populations. Is there a comprehensive analysis or presentation of state-by-state population statistics anywhere (I couldn't find any)? I'm interested in a number of things, such as which states, by very standards, are the strongest chess states. I imagine, NY, MA, TX, and CA might be near the very top.
If you go by average of top 10 players I am pretty sure that FL is the strongest state in the US Southeast .
I think NY must be strongest of all
Its not so clear but its between NY , TX and CA ... with CA being divided into Northern and Southern CA ... weird but TX has the most registered players with over 7K . Maybe TX should be divided like CA ?
Average of top 10 players in TX and NY favors TX and this is also true for the next 10 so top 20 in TX are higher rated ( average of top 20 ) than the top 20 in NY ! This is a surprise to me .
Avg top 10 TX = 2668 and NY = 2666 , without nakamura it wouldnt even be close . The top 3 for NY are all higher than top 3 for TX but from 4-20 the TX players are all higher .
I'm noticing that many states vary greatly in their active USCF player populations. Is there a comprehensive analysis or presentation of state-by-state population statistics anywhere (I couldn't find any)? I'm interested in a number of things, such as which states, by very standards, are the strongest chess states. I imagine, NY, MA, TX, and CA might be near the very top.