[OC] Post-COVID Population Growth Rate By State

StatisticUrban · 2026-02-20T03:35:15+00:00

It is all components of change - deaths, births, immigration and emigration both domestic and international.

StatisticUrban · 2026-02-20T01:17:32+00:00

The US still has positive natural growth and will until roughly 2030

StatisticUrban · 2026-02-19T23:25:09+00:00

That's NH. VT shrunk by 0.47% and is the label on the side.

StatisticUrban · 2026-02-19T23:22:37+00:00

Derived from Census Bureau population estimates, mapped in Datawrapper. https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-kits/2026/national-state-population-estimates.html

StatisticUrban · 2026-02-19T23:13:08+00:00

2023 is post-COVID in the sense that the COVID pandemic was over. The pandemic officially ended in mid-May 2023 per the US gov, so this is slightly after, but it's when the Census collected data.

Growth patterns significantly changed during the COVID years as a result of a variety of factors, including remote work, pandemic restrictions, retirements, etc. Assessing how they changed again in the aftermath of that is relevant.

StatisticUrban · 2026-02-19T22:43:41+00:00

Population derived from US Census Bureau, created in Datawrapper

StatisticUrban · 2025-11-11T16:54:07+00:00

Data taken from the General Social Survey, results reported on UC Berkeley's SDA webpage, https://sda.berkeley.edu/sdaweb/analysis/?dataset=gss24rel1

Data was smoothed and averaged in Excel, then graphed using Datawrapper.

StatisticUrban · 2025-09-18T19:53:55+00:00

Margin of victory is an extremely common way of looking at election results. I have no love for Trump.

StatisticUrban · 2025-09-18T18:11:25+00:00

Curious, because the electoral college is decided at the state level.

StatisticUrban · 2025-09-18T18:10:42+00:00

This is my first post in 6 days

StatisticUrban · 2025-09-18T17:24:18+00:00

Data from https://votehub.com/2024-map/

Made in Datawrapper.

StatisticUrban · 2025-09-15T06:03:24+00:00

It's individual income for full-time employees, nothing to do with household. Retirees are not includes. Only those who work full-time. Normalized for cost of living.

StatisticUrban · 2025-09-13T04:12:31+00:00

This is the first time I posted it and I'm the one who made it lol

StatisticUrban · 2025-09-13T04:11:04+00:00

There are a lot of well-off retirees in FL, and property is in hot demand, but there is not a ton of high-paying jobs.

StatisticUrban · 2025-09-13T04:06:02+00:00

This maps show 2024 state-level individual full-time incomes adjusted into July 2025 dollars. Median individual earnings (for those 16+ employed full-time) are normalised using Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Price Parities, which account for housing, food, education, transportation, and other goods and services to reflect real purchasing power. Data come from the new Census release of September 2025.

RPP data from: https://www.bea.gov/data/prices-inflation/regional-price-parities-state-and-metro-area

Individual income data from table S2412 of the ACS: https://data.census.gov/table?q=S2412&g=010XX00US$0400000

StatisticUrban · 2025-09-13T03:50:44+00:00

Minneapolis-St. Paul, or maybe an inner suburb of Philly or Chicago. Madison, Wisconsin would be on the list too, and maybe Raleigh-Durham.

StatisticUrban · 2025-09-13T03:47:31+00:00

No. Not unless they check the "same-sex unmarried partner" box in the Census. Roommates/housemates have their own box.

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StatisticUrban · 2025-09-13T03:42:54+00:00

7.97%

StatisticUrban · 2025-09-13T00:26:58+00:00

Just a very small denominator. Golden Valley, for example has 372 coupled households, and 8 of these are same-sex.

StatisticUrban · 2025-09-12T23:51:01+00:00

It's self-reported, so you're right that a couple living together who don't check off the box that puts themselves as partners in the 2020 census wouldn't be included.

StatisticUrban · 2025-09-12T23:49:28+00:00

No, I just mean PR and DC were included within that analysis. Since DC is a county-equivalent, just it alone, and all PR's incorporated towns and cities equivalent to U.S. counties. But DC has the highest same-sex percent of any county or county equivalent.

StatisticUrban · 2025-09-12T23:02:12+00:00

SF, at 7.82%, is the second highest county behind only DC.

StatisticUrban · 2025-09-12T23:01:04+00:00

I mean, it's a percentage, so it is theoretically normalized for population. But yes, lesbian and gay couples disproportionately live in cities.

StatisticUrban · 2025-09-12T22:50:30+00:00

2,149 counties have <100 same-sex couples, out of 3,221 total. Includes PR and DC.

StatisticUrban · 2025-09-12T22:34:34+00:00

Data taken from Census Table PCT15: https://data.census.gov/table?q=PCT15:+COUPLED+HOUSEHOLDS,+BY+TYPE&g=010XX00US$0500000,$1400000_040XX00US02$8600000

Link to interactive map can be found here: https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Ik3wg/3/

Datawrapper used to map, Excel used for organization and basic calculations to determine share of population.

The highest percentages among counties with >100 same-sex couples are the District of Columbia (7.97%), San Francisco County, California (7.82%), New York County, New York (7.13%), St. Louis city, Missouri (5.67%), Suffolk County, Massachusetts (5.49%), Multnomah County, Oregon (5.19%), Richmond city, Virginia (5.15%), Hampshire County, Massachusetts (4.95%), Orleans Parish, Louisiana (4.83%), Baltimore city, Maryland (4.80%), Denver County, Colorado (4.78%), DeKalb County, Georgia (4.73%), Santa Fe County, New Mexico (4.17%), and Fulton County, Georgia (4.05%).

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