Maps Show Where Americans' Quality of Life Challenged by High Population Growth
NumbersUSA is introducing today an exciting new mapping system on its website that will help Americans view at a glance where quality-of-life challenges are the greatest around the country.
Today, the map focus is on the fact that the United States is undergoing the biggest population explosion in its history.
Some 400 metro, state and national maps show where population growth has been highest since 1980, in nearly all cases either directly because of immigration or because Americans have fled there from a high-immigration locale.
"When you see a county on the map colored orange, red or pink (for very high population growth), you can be relatively certain that this is a county where the very nature of daily life has been changed since 1980 because of federal immigration policies," said NumbersUSA President Roy Beck.
In the future, maps of additional "quality indicators" will be posted regularly, so you can compare your locale with others in terms of air pollution, sprawl, traffic congestion, school quality, etc.
You can click on any part of any map to zoom in for close-ups by state and metro area. On today's featured population growth map, you can click anywhere to see the actual population numbers and growth percentages for each state, metro and county. You also can see how each ranks with all others in the country.
"Perhaps nothing tells you more faster about a county or metro than the rate of population growth," Beck said.
You can obtain a lot of really quick information on the maps merely by passing your cursor over a state or county:
- On the national map, mouse-over any state to bring up a bubble that will provide the population changes and the rank of that state among all 50.
- On any state map, mouse-over any county for the population details and for the rank of that county among 3,141 counties in the entire country.
If you want to be able to print the data that is in the bubbles. Just click on the state, metro or county, which will put the data into the text box to the left of the map. Then print.
If you see anything at all that looks like it might be an error in fact or in navigation, there's a help form on the map page. You can also read Roy's blog for more information, and post comments about the new maps feature below his blog.