The information in Image 1 is incomes per capita. Some of the poorer areas can be seen such as Pershing County (Northwest), White Pine County (Mideastern), and Mineral County (Southwestern). These counties all have around 20-30K in income per capita. This map is not the best for searching out informational bout the more affluent districts or counties, because the focus of the map is on lower incomes per capita
In Image 2, we can see where wealthy individuals tend to concentrate. Some of these counties are Douglas County (South of Carson City), Washoe County (North of Carson City), and Lander County (Central Nevada). These counties have about a 10-12% of their area that has a cumulative $200,000+ in income per household. We can assume from this that more upper class and wealthy people live in this area. This will be valuable information to refer to when it comes time to do the political analysis of Nevada. There is often a correlation between income/wealth and the political party that the household in general sways towards.
Lastly in Image 3, it shows information on household that have less than $10,000 per household. We can see a lot of the information given to us in Image 1 backed up. We have some of the same counties being shown, such as: Pershing County (Northwest), Mineral County (Southwest), and Esmeralda County (Middle/central/T-shape). Some of the ones that are being represented here and not in Image 1 are Clark County, home to Las Vegas. With the information gathered from all the images we can see that while Clark County has a substantial low-income household population, there are also a hefty sum of upper-class households as well. This makes Clark County one of the most economically diverse counties in Nevada. This makes sense since Clark County also has one of the highest population densities in Nevada.
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It's interesting to see such a wide disparity of wealth, and just how scattered that variance is across the state's counties. Nevada likely has some interesting economic information due to the presence of Las Vegas in an area otherwise much like the other Western states.
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