AVIATION STATISTICS GONE WILD

Did you know?
Based on the FAA.'s data of Active pilots in the U.S. (including Alaska, Hawaii & Military) as of March 1, 2009 and broken down by District Offices,
In the Seattle area there are 1,778 Student Pilots, 37 Sports Pilots, 2 Recreational Pilots, 5,616 Private Pilots, 3,066 Commercial Pilots and 4,217 ATP Pilots, for a total of 14,716 Active U.S. Pilots in the Seattle area alone. Of the Northwest Mountain Region, Seattle is 2nd in highest number of total pilots, with Denver having a total of 16,420. Seattle has the most Student Pilots in the region. In addition, Seattle has 2,344 Instructors and 1,851 Flight Engineers.
In the U.S., Scottsdale, Arizona has the highest number of Student Pilots (3,134), Private Pilots (7,196) and Commercial Pilots (4,779). They also have the highest combined total number of pilots in all Districts at 28,560.
Atlanta, Georgia has the highest number of ATP pilots at 7,050. Probably thanks to Delta Airlines, the world's largest commercial carrier. Dallas/Ft. Worth, with American Airlines, combined with the two District Offices, has 5,684 in Ft. Worth and 2,431 in Dallas (8,115 Total).
Juneau, Alaska has the lowest number of Pilots across the board at a mere 50 Students, 1 Sports, 0 Recreational, 213 Private, 189 Commercial, 110 ATP. Not surprising. But what is surprising is that Juneau has 110 Flight Instructors. That's 2.2 Instructors for every Student.
You would think that Scottsdale, Arizona, having the highest number of students, would have the highest number of instructors. But they do not. Orlando, Florida has 3,877 Flight Instructors where Scottsdale has only 3,645. Scottsdale has 1.16 instructors for every student. Where Orlando has 1.39 instructors for every student.
In all Districts, there are more Instructors than Students. Except for Albany & Baltimore, which each having 0.86 Instructors for each student, and Birmingham  having the lowest at 0.57 Instructors per Student. If you're an Instructor looking for work, I might suggest Birmingham.
TOTALS:
In the U.S., there are a total of 577,062 Active Pilots. Of that, 75,088 are Students, 2,734 are Sport, 246 are Recreational, 230,032 are Private, 126,944 are Commercial, 142,018 are ATP. There are 91,928 Flight Instructors (or 1.22 Instructors for each Student) and 52,305 Flight Engineer's.
There are a total of 138,930 Foreign pilots active in the U.S. For a combined total of Active U.S. & Foreign Pilots is the U.S. of 887,127.
Now how many pilot jobs are there? Anyone know those statistics?
(Data provided by Federal Aviation Administration, Wikipedia, thanks David for submitting the information)

Comments

[Chip]

In Seattle the Instructor/Student Pilot ratio is 1.32. That's slightly worse than the national average.

Not very good odds if somebody wanted to make a living from being a CFI.