by Gary Hoover | Jun 15, 2023 | Articles, Data, Demography and Geography
In our most recent newsletter, we reviewed changes in population among American cities (metropolitan areas) since 2019, a short but important period of change. In this issue, we take a look at the longer-term trends; how our cities have shifted over the 22 years from...
by Gary Hoover | May 31, 2023 | Articles, Data, Demography and Geography
The Census Bureau recently released 2022 estimated populations of American Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs – cities with all their suburbs). We were curious to understand what places in the nation were growing and which ones were shrinking since the start of...
by Gary Hoover | May 8, 2022 | Articles, Data, Demography and Geography, Newsletters
In the twelve months ended on July 1, 2021, Dallas-Fort Worth and their suburbs attracted almost 75,000 people from around America, while the greater San Francisco Bay area witnessed more than 170,000 folks running to other parts of the country. These population...
by Gary Hoover | Sep 16, 2021 | Data, Data, Demography and Geography, Newsletters
This week we present another of our popular animated charts. In this one, we show the populations of the states of the United States from the Census, every ten years from 1790 through 2020. The list is long, including all fifty ultimate states. The data...
by Gary Hoover | Nov 14, 2019 | Articles, Data, Demography and Geography, Newsletters
Click here to see the detailed chart or watch it here on youtube. Two weeks ago, we presented an animated chart showing the most popular American cities – the metropolitan areas which received the most domestic migrants in each year from 2010 through...
by Gary Hoover | Nov 14, 2019 | Articles, Business in General, Data, Data, Demography and Geography
Two weeks ago, we presented an animated chart showing the most popular American cities – the metropolitan areas which received the most domestic migrants in each year from 2010 through 2018. This week, we created an animated chart showing “the...
by Gary Hoover | Nov 1, 2019 | Data, Demography and Geography, Videos
by Gary Hoover | Oct 31, 2019 | Articles, Data, Demography and Geography, Newsletters
This week we present another of our animated charts. This one looks at which cities Americans have been moving to, from 2010 through 2018. Population growth is a key factor in business and where business takes place. Entrepreneurs and innovators often...
by Gary Hoover | Oct 31, 2019 | Data, Data, Demography and Geography
by Gary Hoover | Sep 19, 2019 | Articles, Data, Demography and Geography, Newsletters
Dear Friends of History, Here at the American Business History Center, we usually focus on the long-term view, going back decades. But today, for a change of pace, we take a look at very recent history….the 2010’s. Here is one of our “bar race charts” created using...
by Gary Hoover | Sep 19, 2019 | Data, Data, Demography and Geography
by Gary Hoover | Aug 15, 2019 | Articles, Data, Data, Demography and Geography, Newsletters
This week, we present more of our animated “bar race charts” made with Flourish.studio, in which you can see how change takes place over time. We have produced two versions, one for close study that takes five minutes and a very fast one that you can watch in...
by Gary Hoover | Jul 11, 2019 | Articles, Articles, Business in General, Data, Data, Demography and Geography
History lovers, Today we present something a little different….an animated chart showing the rise and fall of American cities. If you play (or replay) the graphic linked here, you will see the rise and fall of the thirty most populous metropolitan areas in the...