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What percentage of upstate New Yorkers today live
within 25 miles of the Erie Canal?

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80%

Nearly 80% of upstate New York's population lives within 25 miles of the Erie Canal. The Erie Canal's success was part of a Canal-building boom in New York in the 1820s

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