{"id":30846,"date":"2010-12-16T14:02:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T19:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=30846"},"modified":"2011-11-21T02:00:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T07:00:45","slug":"interactive-maps-of-u-s-racialethnic-distributions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/12\/16\/interactive-maps-of-u-s-racialethnic-distributions\/","title":{"rendered":"Interactive Maps of U.S. Racial\/Ethnic Distributions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in September, I posted about some maps put together by Eric Fischer<\/a>, using 2000 Census data, showing the racial\/ethnic makeup of selected cities. As Jeff H., Eluned J., and Dmitriy T.M. pointed out, the NYT<\/em> now has up an interactive map where you can see the racial\/ethnic composition of any Census tract<\/a>, using more updated Census Bureau data from 2005 to 2009. For instance, here’s a map of the neighboring cities of Midland and Odessa, Texas, which I picked for no reason other than that I just watched an episode of Friday Night Lights<\/em>, which is set in a fictionalized version:<\/p>\n

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Color key:<\/p>\n

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You can zoom in to get quite detailed information about individual neighborhoods. I zoomed in as far as I could on Miami (each dot now represents 50 people):<\/p>\n

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There’s also a tab that says “View More Maps.” It allows you to select to see just the distribution of Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, or the foreign-born population. Here’s the map of the Hispanic population of Las Vegas:<\/p>\n

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As you can see, if you hover over a Census tract, you can get specific data on its racial\/ethnic makeup.<\/p>\n

The foreign-born population of Seattle (if you hover over a tract, it will tell you the % foreign-born, as well as the % increase in the foreign-born population since 2000):<\/p>\n

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A great resource. Although I tried to look up my home town, and even zooming in to the smallest scale, it’s too small to have any data available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in September, I posted about some maps put together by Eric Fischer, using 2000 Census data, showing the racial\/ethnic makeup of selected cities. As Jeff H., Eluned J., and Dmitriy T.M. pointed out, the NYT now has up an interactive map where you can see the racial\/ethnic composition of any Census tract, using more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[135,2125,285,1759,1760,1754,1757],"class_list":["post-30846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-demography","tag-immigrationcitizenship","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-asianspacific-islanders","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-latinos","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30846"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30853,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30846\/revisions\/30853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}