#census map

[usnatarchives]

📍 #AskAConservator – Here’s a 1960 census enumeration map of Chicago, showing every area a census taker would cover. It’s worn from heavy use, but our job is to conserve it for future digitization. By 2032, it will be accessible to all thanks to conservation efforts today!

[detroitlib]

On this day in history, March 1, 1790 – The first United States census is authorized.

Census map for Detroit depicting African American population. Printed on front: "Census years more than 50 percent Black."

Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

[graffitiregatta-blog]

Can You Find Yourself on This Amazing Map of America?

How diverse is your neighborhood really? This map by Dustin Cable at the University of Virginias Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service displays the population distribution of every person in America (as of the 2010 census) along racial and ethnic lines. The map features 308,745,538 dots, each smaller than a...

This map is well worth getting lost in for a few minutes. I just looked at my city--Tampa--and was startled by the results. Which is, in a way, silly because I talk about the processes and forces of urban segregation all the time. But, to see how starkly divided metro areas are with such recent data is nonetheless surprising.