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Number of Computers


  • Office buildings contained the most computers per square foot, followed by education and outpatient health care buildings.
  • Education buildings were the only type with more than one computer per employee.
  • Religious worship and food sales buildings had the fewest computers per square foot.

 


 

Percent of All Computers by Building Type

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Computer Data by Building Type
Number of Buildings (thousand)
Total Floorspace (million square feet)
Number of Employees (thousand)
Total Computers (thousand)
Computers per Million Square Feet
Computers per Thousand Employees
 
All Buildings
4,657
67,338
81,852
57,864
859
707
 
Principal Building Activity
Education
327
8,651
8,927
11,914
1,377
1,335
Food Sales
174
994
980
247
249
252
Food Service
349
1,851
4,031
557
301
138
Health Care
127
2,918
6,219
3,652
1,252
587
—Inpatient
11
1,865
3,350
2,230
1,196
666
—Outpatient
116
1,053
2,869
1,421
1,351
495
Lodging
153
4,521
2,356
1,884
417
800
Mercantile
667
10,398
11,384
3,561
342
313
—Retail (Other Than Mall)
534
4,766
4,668
1,802
378
386
—Enclosed and Strip Malls
133
5,631
6,716
1,759
312
262
Office
739
12,044
28,969
27,642
2,295
954
Public Assembly
305
4,393
3,147
1,654
377
526
Public Order and Safety
72
1,168
1,702
753
644
442
Religious Worship
307
3,405
1,654
546
160
330
Service
478
3,388
4,554
1,483
438
326
Warehouse and Storage
603
10,477
6,216
2,606
249
419
Other
102
1,222
1,453
1,118
915
769
Vacant
253
1,908
261
Q
129
947
Q=Data withheld because the Relative Standard Error (RSE) was greater than 50 percent, or fewer than 20 buildings were sampled.
Source: Energy Information Administration, 1999 Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey.

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