ECONOMIC STATS ON TEXAS:
This first map is showing how many occupied housing units there were from 2020. The most popular spots were around the main cities In Texas. Places like Austin, Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio have very large populations of people living there. Lots of houses. Yet places not as known, and not big cities have only a few hundred people living there.
This map shows unemployment rates in Texas counties from August 2019-2020. The rate of unemployment went up from the start of Covid, and it seems more people that were unemployed lived less in the bigger cities, and more on the west and south-west outskirts of Texas like, Presidio County, Ector County, and Maverick County. The big cities have average rates of unemployment, and the middle and north part or Texas have the least amount of unemployment.
This last map shows families with income below poverty levels. Same with the unemployment rate map there are similar patterns of unemployment, and poverty levels. Where the poverty levels are really high in the south, and south-west part of Texas. As well as little bit in the east part of Texas. Bigger cities have less poverty, and the North also has less poverty levels.
In all, this data makes a lot of sense. Bigger cities are going to have less poverty, and less unemployment, while smaller cities and counties will have More. If the city is bigger it will need more housing and so bigger cities will have higher housing populations as well. The data I have collected all goes together.
1 comment:
I found all your maps interesting for the most part. For the first one, I would recommend changing it to a percent map as more inner-city areas will have more population as they are more closely sandwiched together. The second map is really something as it comes from the "Unemployment Statistics 2020," and I would be eager to know when this data was sourced since May 2020 was one of the bigger periods of unemployment throughout the United States. The third map is the most interesting out of all three I found it puzzling why the city of Austin has such a lower poverty rate than other areas and big cities in Texas.
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