I don’t like the color scale design. This makes a huge difference between greater or less than 1M
why don’t they combine some of those ridiculously small counties? it must be redundant and inefficient. 63 people?
There is no county with a population of 40 Million lol, could’ve easily capped it around 10, and even then, LA County has just over 10 million people and the next most populous county doesn’t even reach 5.5M
It’s always crazy to me as a North Texan that those 4 counties that are Dallas/Forth Worth have nearly as many people as Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas combined.
Why isn’t it population density?
There’s a green one in South Dakota
For Connecticut you can use county equivalents like Councils of Government. Functionally similar to Boroughs in Alaska or Parishes in Louisiana for statistical purposes.
This is a really bad color scale, I can’t differentiate between the greyish purple and no data very easily. I wouldn’t have even realized there were no data sections if it weren’t for CT
This is a consequence of the Plains states having geographically smaller counties than further west states.
Is this not primarily the result of the fact that counties in Nevada, Idaho, Montana, etc., are 5, 10, even 20 times larger than counties in the “no-man’s land”? This “population valley” disappears when you look at population density.
63 is an oddly specific number for the bottom of the scale. Lol.
Alaska doesn’t have counties.
I think the size of counties ruins this. The counties from western utah across Nevada are extremely desolate desert and largely uninhabited. But they’re huge compared to those counties showing up as lowest population on here. Population density is almost certainly the more relevant statistic. Or maybe something like largest city.
Number of people named Ty?
Why do you have three separate color ranges?
I refuse to believe there at that many people between Albuquerque and El Paso.
Sigh, yet another Reddit map that’s secretly just a population chart. It would be better to plot the data per capita to make it more useful.
😉
The white/gray area represents something like 5% of the entire worldwide crop production zone.
I feel like it would make more sense if it was normalized to population per unit area, no?
I’ve noticed that on every single map of the U.S., for basically any possible statistic you can imagine, this exact line is a stark divider – it’s bizarre, what it is and why is it such a constant force in everything? It’s like you’re in a different country from one side of that thin line to the other
I feel like 10k-1M is such an insane range that it tells me nothing, it’s like if I had a map of earth and was like the blue parts mean 100-1 billion live here
This is stupid data not beautiful data
What is a Ty population? You may want to spell that out.
The near binary gradient is misleading.
Terrible color key and scale segments: A county with a population of 12,000 should not have the same general color as a county with a population of 996,000.
Maine is a perfect example. It’s one of the most rural states, and here it looks nearly as dense as Massachusetts.
Also why does your key go to 40 Million? The most populous county in the USA has just around 10 million residents.
![[OC] A look at United States county ty population (2023 via census.gov)](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1750996389_qw8p7j7kyc9f1-1920x1024.png)
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I don’t like the color scale design. This makes a huge difference between greater or less than 1M
why don’t they combine some of those ridiculously small counties? it must be redundant and inefficient. 63 people?
There is no county with a population of 40 Million lol, could’ve easily capped it around 10, and even then, LA County has just over 10 million people and the next most populous county doesn’t even reach 5.5M
It’s always crazy to me as a North Texan that those 4 counties that are Dallas/Forth Worth have nearly as many people as Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas combined.
Why isn’t it population density?
There’s a green one in South Dakota
For Connecticut you can use county equivalents like Councils of Government. Functionally similar to Boroughs in Alaska or Parishes in Louisiana for statistical purposes.
This is a really bad color scale, I can’t differentiate between the greyish purple and no data very easily. I wouldn’t have even realized there were no data sections if it weren’t for CT
This is a consequence of the Plains states having geographically smaller counties than further west states.
Is this not primarily the result of the fact that counties in Nevada, Idaho, Montana, etc., are 5, 10, even 20 times larger than counties in the “no-man’s land”? This “population valley” disappears when you look at population density.
63 is an oddly specific number for the bottom of the scale. Lol.
Alaska doesn’t have counties.
I think the size of counties ruins this. The counties from western utah across Nevada are extremely desolate desert and largely uninhabited. But they’re huge compared to those counties showing up as lowest population on here. Population density is almost certainly the more relevant statistic. Or maybe something like largest city.
Number of people named Ty?
Why do you have three separate color ranges?
I refuse to believe there at that many people between Albuquerque and El Paso.
Sigh, yet another Reddit map that’s secretly just a population chart. It would be better to plot the data per capita to make it more useful.
😉
The white/gray area represents something like 5% of the entire worldwide crop production zone.
I feel like it would make more sense if it was normalized to population per unit area, no?
I’ve noticed that on every single map of the U.S., for basically any possible statistic you can imagine, this exact line is a stark divider – it’s bizarre, what it is and why is it such a constant force in everything? It’s like you’re in a different country from one side of that thin line to the other
I feel like 10k-1M is such an insane range that it tells me nothing, it’s like if I had a map of earth and was like the blue parts mean 100-1 billion live here
This is stupid data not beautiful data
What is a Ty population? You may want to spell that out.
The near binary gradient is misleading.
Terrible color key and scale segments: A county with a population of 12,000 should not have the same general color as a county with a population of 996,000.
Maine is a perfect example. It’s one of the most rural states, and here it looks nearly as dense as Massachusetts.
Also why does your key go to 40 Million? The most populous county in the USA has just around 10 million residents.
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