Map/graphic by me, created with excel, mapchart, and photoshop.

All data from the US Census bureau: https://data.census.gov/

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Posted by TA-MajestyPalm

14 comments

  1. Nice! Very interesting to see in-state differences. What is going on in the north-west? Is there some general major pull factors there?

  2. I am curios about what data you are using. The map states: “The total US population grew by 2.43% during these 5 years, adding 8 million people to reach 335 million in July of 2023.” How is population defined? What counts as population? I know the question sounds stupid, but 5M feels low, so I am trying to understand what gets counted towards those 5M. Does population mean residents?

  3. Pretty interesting. That border strip in Texas has some of the highest % loss in the US although I suspect those counties were pretty empty to begin with.

    Many of the traditionally poor counties in the South continue to bleed residents. I assume the older people are dying off and the younger ones are moving to cities like Nashville, Atlanta, Houston, or DFW for jobs.

  4. Butte County, CA looking much redder than the surrounding area. I wonder how much that had to do with the Camp fire in 2018. 

  5. Everyone moved from rural Texas to the big Texas cities

  6. Why is Trinity County California (northern dark blue patch) growing so much?

  7. Pretty soon, there will be about 8 people in those beige central states, each with their own personal senator.

  9. It’s hard to fathom why people move to Florida. Humidity, mosquitoes, hurricanes, and fascists running the state government (I recogmize that some view this as a feature, not a bug). Boggles the mind.

  10. Louisiana seems to be defying the sun belt growth pretty hard. Maybe a good investment opportunity, looking 20-30 years down the line?

  11. Illinois’ near universal population decline seems to end at its borders. Is there some state policy that’s driving this? I recognize IL is uniquely blue in the region, so its policies are probably different than its neighbors.

  12. Florida getting smashed year over year with increasingly wild storms. LETTTSSS GOOO population boom lol.

  13. Wow, those three people that moved to Prudhoe Bay really made a difference.

  14. The percentages make it missleading. Total numbers would have been way more intresting.

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