Wizard demographics?

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., frantyck at y... wrote:
> Hullo, all. I was wondering whether anyone anywhere has done a bit of 
> calculation wrt wizard demographics -- that is, using the few clues 
> Rowling offers to estimate what wizard-world numbers are like. The 
> only solid number we seem to have is the number of Hogwarts students 
> (1000).

That's not undisputed of course. If I remember right from the Lexicon, some theorize that there are merely about 280. (10 students per house (five of each gender) 40 of each year, 280 of all seventy.) There's actually quite a bit of reasoning behind this, but one of the more experienced members would be better at explaining it.

> 
> Also: any speculation on what a world would be like in which almost 
> everyone has attended the same school? (Frankly, argh.)
>

I don't know. Maybe there are other wizard schools that the english are open to go to. After all, Draco COULD have gone to Durmstrang, (of course, Lucius and the headmaster of Durmstrang were "old friends" though...)
 
> Lastly: Where would you think wizarding schools would be in your > country? Obvious Example: the US has roughly five times the 
> population of the UK; does that mean five schools? Where would you 
> put them?
> 

Well, in my yet-to-be-written fanfic, I put a school in Minnesota, which I think is nice (rural, centrally located) also, maybe something could be in... oh... the Salem/Boston region. Um, there might be one deeply hidden in the Rocky Mountains.