Death and Taxes — or The Census in Color

[Interactive Chart] Death and taxes / Color is death rate in 2016; area is total 2014 federal tax liability

The Census Bureau and IRS make a plethora of data available on a per-county basis. In The Census in Color, we’ve integrated a few hundred of these data series. You can plot statistics on a county, state, and regional basis, including: population, birth/death rates, immigration/emigration, age, gender, race, income, taxation, business data, and much more. We’ve highlighted some of our favorite discoveries below.

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This is the 2nd in a series of articles about visualization: [Part 1].

College graduates don’t equal home ownership [Interactive chart]

[Interactive Chart] Horizontal: Pct. of bachelor degrees; Vertical: Pct. of home ownership

Poverty in the South [Interactive Chart]

[Interactive Chart] Area = Population; Color = Percent below poverty line

Foreigners live mostly in highly populated costal and border areas [Interactive Chart]

[Interactive Chart] Size = Population, Color = Pct. residents foreign born

Everyone Lives in NYC [Interactive Chart]

[Interactive Chart] Area is sq. miles of land, color is population density

Utah and the Dakotas have more children than expected [Interactive Chart]

[Interactive Chart] Area and Color: Pct of residents under 18yo

But college degrees still go hand in hand with income [Interactive Chart]

[Interactive Chart] Horiz: Pct. bachelor’s degrees; Vertical: Median household income

Chicken-pox — red dots where women own exactly no businesses [Interactive chart]

[Interactive Chart] Color: Pct. of firms owned by women; size: population

Alaska has the greatest low-commute-time acreage [Interactive Chart]

[Interactive Chart] Area: land sq. miles; Color: Commute time

Death and taxes [Interactive Chart]

[Interactive Chart] Death and taxes / Color is death rate in 2016; area is total 2014 federal tax liability

Sources

US Census Bureau

• Quickfacts: https://web.archive.org/web/20160103140251/http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/download/DataDict.txt
  https://web.archive.org/web/20160105094437/http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/download/DataSet.txt
• Population Estimation & Flows: http://web.archive.org/web/20170403064204/https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/datasets/2010-2016/counties/totals/co-est2016-alldata.csv
  http://web.archive.org/web/20170403064220/https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/technical-documentation/file-layouts/2010-2016/co-est2016-alldata.pdf
• Geocoding by Center of Population: http://web.archive.org/web/20151206063735/http://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/reference/cenpop2010/county/CenPop2010_Mean_CO.txt
  http://web.archive.org/web/20160304114418/http://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/reference/cenpop2010/CenPop2010_Mean_ST.txt

US IRS

• Statistics of Income: http://web.archive.org/web/20170211062750/https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/14incydocguide.doc
  http://web.archive.org/web/20170217085627/https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/14incyallnoagi.csv