The NY times recently released an article looking at how Census data gives us insight into migrations patterns in the US. For each state you see the following information: where people from that home state have moved to and where they have moved from (by decade starting with the 1990 census and ending with the 2012 American Community Survey). Within each of these migration patterns the data highlights what specific parts of the country people are coming from/leaving to. For example, Florida’s data illustrates that in 1900 65% of Floridians were born in the state compared to just 36% in 2012. The majority of the new migrants came from NY and other Northeastern states. The out migration data shows that the majority of Florida residents have moved to other parts of the state, with other states in the South being the second destination.
The NY times did a great job visualizing the data into colored streams that are easy to understand. The newspaper typically does a great job taking complex data and reformatting it for easy digestion.
Here’s a link to the article:
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