Statistical Atlas

In the conterminous United States, most of the barren land belongs to deserts and mountains in the west.

Education paths start to diverge towards the end of high school and after.

Here’s household income by number of earners in the household, based on data from the 2022 Current Population Survey.

The National Survey of Family Growth, run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, asks participants about their birth and relationship history.

The two counts have been getting closer to each other. The past couple of years accelerated the process.

The number of births per month has been decreasing over the past decade. The pandemic seems to have sped up the process in the beginning.

Since no one has figured out how to defeat time, age generations come and go. This chart shows the generational breakdowns since 1920.

About 48% of the U.S. population aged 15 and older is married. I was curious if there were regional variations, so I mapped it.

Divorce rates are tied to job security, age, and occupation, so it should make sense that we see a pattern when we plot divorce rates against income.

There are over 1 million international higher-education students enrolled in the United States. This map shows where they reside.

Based on estimates from the United States Census Bureau released for July 2019, Millennials are the largest living generation in the country now.

Here is the breakdown for each state in the United States, based on estimates from the American Community Survey.

In April 2020, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated a national unemployment rate of 14.7%. It wasn’t just the rate itself but how fast it spiked.

I already revived the first Statistical Atlas of the United States from 1870 with modern data, but there’s still more data to look at. So I kept on going.

Due to budget cuts, there is no plan for an updated atlas. So I recreated the original 1870 Atlas using today’s publicly available data.