We are in Florida and we have about 600 homeschooled families in our county...I would say there is a pretty even split among the families we have met...some are very religious and that is their main reason for homeschooling, some want to be "off the grid" and don't want the "man" to tell them how to educate their children, and some are in our boat where school just was not meeting the child's needs so it left the parent no choice but to homeschool.