Census Bureau Produces First Comprehensive Atlas in More Than 80 Years

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Census Bureau Produces First Comprehensive Atlas in More Than 80 Years

Census Atlas of the United States

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Who are we? Where do we come from? What do we do? My name is Marc Perry chief of the Population Distribution branch and co-author recently published Census Atlas of the United States, the first comprehensive atlas of population and housing produced by the Census Bureau since 1925. The new atlas visually guides you through vast amounts of data on the nation’s population and its housing and gives the reader a sense of how our country, and its people, have changed over the years.

The atlas contains over 700 full color maps. It presents data from 1790 through 2000 and is an invitation to spend time considering the characteristics of our country. Maps cover a variety of topics such as income, poverty, educational attainment, race and Hispanic origin, commuting, and residential mobility. Most maps feature county-level detail for the United States and Puerto Rico.

The atlas does not merely offer graphic representations of the facts and data. It reveals the relationships among our nation’s people and the states, cities and counties where they have chosen to live. In short, the book tells the story of our nation — its past, present and future.

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