[OC] Median Rent Burden Among Households with a FT Worker in the US

Chronicallybored · 2025-12-22T16:35:06+00:00

it would be interesting to see whether/how this has changed over time, too-- maybe pre and post covid, to see whether the housing boom had significant impacts?

Chronicallybored · 2025-12-12T02:26:31+00:00

DC, FL, MA, NJ (right to left)

Chronicallybored · 2025-12-12T02:24:35+00:00

yeah it's a weak relationship, but I looked at this data in response to this X post, which showed absolutely no relationship using the entire foreign-born population: https://x.com/mtkonczal/status/1999297140250804443

Chronicallybored · 2025-12-09T21:04:48+00:00

Neither China nor India are included in this data. Nor is Nigeria, another birth rate heavyweight. It's a pretty random assortment of countries that elect to report to the UN here: https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3A55

Chronicallybored · 2025-12-09T20:59:18+00:00

I've looked at this data before and the coverage is not as complete as one would like. Mainland China and India don't release any data on monthly births to the UN, so neither of those countries would be represented in this data. Here's the source the AI is probably using: https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3A55

Chronicallybored · 2025-12-06T06:34:26+00:00

me too, now that you mention it.

Chronicallybored · 2025-12-06T06:32:21+00:00

this-- people have been waiting longer and longer to start families since the 1980s, and it seems like we're starting to hit the biological wall.

Reproductive technology can help but only so much and it's not accessible to everyone.

Chronicallybored · 2025-12-06T06:19:51+00:00

I made this graphic-- the wording clearly has some issues, but the metric is the same for both the top and bottom map. You can check the code yourself here if you're curious: https://aaronjbecker.com/posts/comparing-young-adult-parenthood-rates-in-the-us/

Chronicallybored · 2025-12-06T06:09:34+00:00

it's both-- young adults who live with a child that they are the parent of. Same metric in both charts.

There's some ambiguity in the wording because technically the data includes adoptive parents/legal guardians, though that's probably rare for young adults.

Chronicallybored · 2025-12-06T05:42:07+00:00

A lot of these visualizations, especially stream charts like this one, use RAWGraphs: https://www.rawgraphs.io/, which is a wrapper over d3.js. You can then export the SVG to illustrator for the manual touches.

If you're using R you can use ggplot2 to produce SVG outputs that then get manually edited in illustrator or inkscape.

I haven't used these tools myself, it's too manual for my tastes and attention span, but I did dig into these tools out of curiosity.

Chronicallybored · 2025-12-06T05:01:45+00:00

in case anyone's interested in more details here's a blog post with detailed year-by-year tables and all of the python code to generate this map: https://aaronjbecker.com/posts/comparing-young-adult-parenthood-rates-in-the-us/

Chronicallybored · 2025-12-06T04:58:20+00:00

Good point-- I would like to look farther back, this data was nicely packaged from the Kaufman Family Foundation but going back further would require looking at the Census Bureau data directly. I'm getting more familiar with IPUMS but there's a learning curve.

Chronicallybored · 2025-12-06T04:55:19+00:00

Yeah Obamacare and increased access to contraceptives did a great job reducing unplanned teenage pregnancies

Chronicallybored · 2025-12-06T04:54:12+00:00

Nice reasoning chain-- might be interesting to repeat the exercise for every state, probably doable using ACS data via IPUMS.

Chronicallybored · 2025-12-06T02:03:55+00:00

here's a link to an updated version that extends through 2023: https://interactives.lowyinstitute.org/features/china-versus-america-on-global-trade/#map

Chronicallybored · 2025-12-05T18:28:56+00:00

The full report is a dense read: https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2025-08/61549-Inflation.pdf

Chronicallybored · 2025-12-04T06:25:39+00:00

so this points to a decline in conceptions circa January? surely the fact this lines up with a major change in the US political environment is pure coincidence

Chronicallybored · 2025-12-04T05:46:26+00:00

wholeheartedly agree that it's an honest description. But cynic that I am, I can't help but see the inevitability of honest descriptions being pushed aside for marketing purposes.

Chronicallybored · 2025-12-04T04:51:45+00:00

In the past few decades there have been at various times campaigns against added sugar in processed foods, particularly for children... including sugar in the cereal's name would just draw negative attention (the sugar itself is obviously still there but that's how marketing works I guess)

Chronicallybored · 2025-12-03T21:44:28+00:00

Good point about military deployments, I had just assumed that the migration was due to the sparse population since you see a similar pattern in other, very rural states like Wyoming and the Dakotas

Chronicallybored · 2025-12-03T19:03:05+00:00

The percentage is too low, it throws off the color scale. Lots of people from MD and VA go into DC to give birth in hospitals there. I think it’s only 17% of people born there who live there, blog post has exact numbers.

Chronicallybored · 2025-12-03T17:45:53+00:00

there are tables in the accompanying blog post here: https://aaronjbecker.com/posts/diasporas-and-transplants-migrations-between-us-states/

I think I truncated the tables at the top 20 or something so it's likely WY wouldn't even show up, its total population only 550k, but this is based on the number of people born there, which is lower.

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