America Inwards Decline

The best years for many American towns are right away agency inwards the past. Their elevation years are behind them too all the hereafter seems to offering is to a greater extent than too to a greater extent than population decline.

Using historical census information Lyman Stone has been able to endure out inwards which yr every U.S. county recorded its elevation population. With an ever increasing national population you lot would imagine that close U.S. counties are besides nearly ever seeing an increment inwards population. However for to a greater extent than than one-half of counties their elevation population is quondam inwards the past.

In Where Has Population Fallen? Lyman Stone has created a number of interactive d3.js maps visualizing this population data, showing which counties are inwards spend upwardly too which are seeing population increases. He besides provides approximately interesting analysis of these trends (shrinking rural populations too suburbanization existence 2 probable culprits).

The Washington Post has besides been working amongst Lyman's cleaned upwardly census information to practice maps of this historical population data. In The places inwards America that already bring their best days behind them the Post has created an animated map which shows the yr inwards which each county reached its elevation population. It has besides created a static choropleth map of the same data.