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Map: Where Americans Are Moving More than 10...

Map: Where Americans Are Moving

More than 10 million Americans moved from one county to another during 2008. The map below visualizes those moves. Click on any county to see comings and goings: black lines indicate net inward movement, red lines net outward movement.

Three maps, three stories.

The top map is Cleveland, where I used to live. Everybody’s leaving. It looks like an explosion.

The middle map is Austin, where I live now. Everybody’s moving here. It looks like a black hole.

The bottom map is Pickaway County, Ohio, where I grew up. Hardly anyone leaves. Hardly anyone moves in. It looks like a puddle.

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4. chrisweedboygenius reblogged this from bankston and added:

   I’m going to have so much fun with this.

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9. jacquesofalltrades reblogged this from infoneer-pulse and added:

   Great map application from Forbes shows who moved to and from which counties in 2008. Some very fascinating stuff in...

10. mrnovember13 reblogged this from frsh2dth and added:

    Chicago’s not so popular these days apparently. LOLZ at Detroit though, it looks like a gushing wound.

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14. oheyjules reblogged this from fuckyeahtx and added:

    this is amazing. there are more black lines coming into houston, dallas, and austin and more red lines coming out of...

15. fuckyeahtx reblogged this from austinkleon and added:

    I don’t think people realize yet how big the triangle between Austin, Dallas, and Houston is going to be in 40 years do...

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    Proof that the people of McDowell don’t leave McDowell.

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31. lost-coastlines reblogged this from bethlehems and added:

    Maybe I should just be a demographer with my Sociology degree. And I want to meet the 31 people who moved from Orange...

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34. nyctransplant86 reblogged this from austinkleon and added:

    pretty interesting. and glad/excited to be leaving cleveland in 44 days :)

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47. modulations reblogged this from austinkleon and added:

    Folks from P.G. County, Maryland (my hometown) are moving to Georgia, with some people scattering to Florida and...

48. mebeingserious reblogged this from fuckyeahaustintx and added:

    I have no control over my life. Even the move I planned for 6 months was the result of forces I am not responsible for

49. maybeillsleepwhenimdead reblogged this from fuckyeahaustintx and added:

    Even more proof that the ATX is the place to live. Just saying. It’s pretty fucking cool.

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