The best years for many American towns are directly agency inwards the past. Their meridian years are behind them together with all the hereafter seems to offering is to a greater extent than together with to a greater extent than population decline.
Using historical census information Lyman Stone has been able to operate out inwards which twelvemonth every U.S. of A. of America county recorded its meridian population. With an ever increasing national population yous would imagine that close U.S. of A. of America counties are likewise nearly ever seeing an increment inwards population. However for to a greater extent than than one-half of counties their meridian population is former 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 reject together with which are seeing population increases. He likewise provides to a greater extent than or less interesting analysis of these trends (shrinking rural populations together with suburbanization existence 2 probable culprits).
The Washington Post has likewise been working amongst Lyman's cleaned upwards census information to utilization maps of this historical population data. In The places inwards America that already convey their best days behind them the Post has created an animated map which shows the twelvemonth inwards which each county reached its meridian population. It has likewise created a static choropleth map of the same data.
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