Population Growth Patterns in Metro Areas, 2000-16

[BuckeyeNut]

Would love to see the Columbus, OH metro.

[jimrtex]

Boston:

Is (was) base housing for Hanscom AFB located in Lincoln.

[Gass3268]

Southern Wisconsin (Milwaukee & Madison) would be awesome!

Southeastern Wisconsin:

Very cool! Thanks!

[cinyc]

Philadelphia:



I tried to zoom it out enough to pick up Atlantic City and Allentown.

Columbus, Ohio will be next, though I'm not sure how illuminating it will be, since a lot of the metro's population lives in Columbus, proper.

[Gass3268]

Nashville? That's were my fiancée is from.

[Shameless Lefty Hack]

Chicagoland:

I'm not surprised at the southern portion of Lake County, Indiana.  The growth in recent years has been insane.

Interesting to see that Valparaiso itself consistently lost population.

[cinyc]

Columbus, Ohio:



What's up with the wild population swings in Union Township, Madison County?

[cinyc]

Nashville? That's were my fiancée is from.

Nashville suffers from the lack of granularity issue in the south, particularly since a lot of of the population lives in the consolidated Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County.  I'll put it on my to do list, though.

[KingSweden]

Nashville? That's were my fiancée is from.

Nashville suffers from the lack of granularity issue in the south, particularly since a lot of of the population lives in the consolidated Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County.  I'll put it on my to do list, though.

I can imagine quite a few Southern cities would be tough to do for this reason

[jimrtex]

Columbus, Ohio:



What's up with the wild population swings in Union Township, Madison County?

It has two prisons (London Correctional Institution and Madison Correctional Institution) which has a an address of London, but appears to be located in the township (Madison Township wraps around London, and the prisons are west and northwest of the city).

In 2010, 89% of the township population was male, and 78% was incarcerated.

[cinyc]

Nashville:



As I thought, the granularity stinks.

[cinyc]

What's up with the wild population swings in Union Township, Madison County?

It has two prisons (London Correctional Institution and Madison Correctional Institution) which has a an address of London, but appears to be located in the township (Madison Township wraps around London, and the prisons are west and northwest of the city).

In 2010, 89% of the township population was male, and 78% was incarcerated.

Thanks.  It's almost always the prisons that cause wild population swings.

Nashville? That's were my fiancée is from.

Nashville suffers from the lack of granularity issue in the south, particularly since a lot of of the population lives in the consolidated Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County.  I'll put it on my to do list, though.

I can imagine quite a few Southern cities would be tough to do for this reason

Correct.  Many people in the South live in unincorporated parts of their counties, and Census doesn't do yearly population estimates for CDPs (though I can get about 5-years' CDP data from the 5-year ACS).  

It's a little less of a problem on the West Coast, but still a problem.  Eventually, I'll get around to doing maps of the Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas and Houston metros, though.  The shapes of Texas' cities are bizarre, thanks to their annexation laws.

[KingSweden]

What's up with the wild population swings in Union Township, Madison County?

It has two prisons (London Correctional Institution and Madison Correctional Institution) which has a an address of London, but appears to be located in the township (Madison Township wraps around London, and the prisons are west and northwest of the city).

In 2010, 89% of the township population was male, and 78% was incarcerated.

Thanks.  It's almost always the prisons that cause wild population swings.

Nashville? That's were my fiancée is from.

Nashville suffers from the lack of granularity issue in the south, particularly since a lot of of the population lives in the consolidated Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County.  I'll put it on my to do list, though.

I can imagine quite a few Southern cities would be tough to do for this reason

Correct.  Many people in the South live in unincorporated parts of their counties, and Census doesn't do yearly population estimates for CDPs (though I can get about 5-years' CDP data from the 5-year ACS).  

It's a little less of a problem on the West Coast, but still a problem.  Eventually, I'll get around to doing maps of the Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas and Houston metros, though.  The shapes of Texas' cities are bizarre, thanks to their annexation laws.

WA has pushed many CDPs to incorporate or be annexed in the last decade, which will probably help

[JerryArkansas]

It probably will have the same problems as the Nashville map, but one of North West Arkansas might be interesting to look at.

[cinyc]

Los Angeles:



You can see a scurry to Riverside County and the Los Angeles/San Bernadino Exurbs in from about 2003-07.

[cinyc]

It probably will have the same problems as the Nashville map, but one of North West Arkansas might be interesting to look at.

It should be a little more detailed than Nashville, as there are more incorporated places in NW Arkansas than Middle Tennessee. 

What counties are you looking for?  Benton south to Sebastian?   A bigger map might pick up the Tulsa area, since the NW Arkansas population is pretty much confined along the I-49 Corridor.

[JerryArkansas]

It probably will have the same problems as the Nashville map, but one of North West Arkansas might be interesting to look at.

It should be a little more detailed than Nashville, as there are more incorporated places in NW Arkansas than Middle Tennessee. 

What counties are you looking for?  Benton south to Sebastian?   A bigger map might pick up the Tulsa area, since the NW Arkansas population is pretty much confined along the I-49 Corridor.

I mean if you want to get bigger yeah including Tulsa would be nice.

[cinyc]

San Francisco Bay Area:

[Adam Griffin]

What about Atlanta? At least for the core counties (Fulton/Dekalb), it might be easier to show some detail (as everybody and their mother has incorporated a city since the 1960s to keep from being annexed by ATL, with a recent wave in the past decade).

[cinyc]

Northwest Arkansas/Tulsa:



Oklahoma has some strange looking cities.

[cinyc]

Atlanta:



The granularity is okay, but not great.  At least it's better than Nashville.

[cinyc]

The largely growing Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex:

[cinyc]

Greater Houston:



Yes, Texas has weird-shaped cities and the granularity stinks.

[JerryArkansas]

Northwest Arkansas/Tulsa:



Oklahoma has some strange looking cities.

Better looking than I thought.
Also I think those city shapes have something to do with the tribes in Eastern Oklahoma.

[cinyc]

South Florida:



I've now done maps of all of the top 10 populated US Metro Areas.  I'll eventually get around to doing Phoenix-Mesa to give us all of the top 15.  I also will probably do Minneapolis eventually, but I have to update the County Sub 20 layer for the 2010-16 maps before I do so.

Anyone want to see any metros other than those two?