U.S. Population Density (1790-2010) - Westward Expansion

The animated map of population density, made using Jonathan Schroeder's county-level decadal estimates. Populations for intermediate years was interpolated by cubic splines to log-density; essentially, that means that it assumes a smooth change in the rate of growth for each county over time.
Westward Expansion summary: The story of the United States has always been one of westward expansion, beginning along the East Coast and continuing, often by leaps and bounds, until it reached the Pacific-what Theodore Roosevelt described as "the great leap Westward." The acquisition of Hawaii and Alaska, though not usually included in discussions of Americans expanding their nation westward, continued the practices established under the principle of Manifest Destiny.
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  • @joeredfield979
    @joeredfield9794 жыл бұрын

    imagine how the population growth of the solar system would look like in a thousand years from now.

  • @strikefg

    @strikefg

    2 жыл бұрын

    "Hey remember when we only lived on one planet haha"

  • @AWCTB

    @AWCTB

    2 жыл бұрын

    Would be very hard to safely inhabit some places especially if humanity doesn’t collapse.

  • @stuffedbunnychess

    @stuffedbunnychess

    Жыл бұрын

    @@AWCTB It would be harder if we collapsed

  • @user-cmcumm

    @user-cmcumm

    Жыл бұрын

    Population growth in most countries will stop till the end of 21 century, it even stopped in most developed countries already and we have Asia and Africa to go USA's population growing only because of migrants from all world

  • @davidz3879

    @davidz3879

    Жыл бұрын

    None of the other planets in our solar system are inhabitable.

  • @Meyers1793
    @Meyers1793 Жыл бұрын

    This is really interesting. A couple things I would add to make the map more useful and readable: 1. State outlines 2. A few majors cities, maybe just for a few years after they've been established, like Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicago, Etc. 3. A few major rivers, settlement often followed rivers 4. More gradients of population density. 90/sq mile might have been a significant measure in the 1790s, but not anymore. For instance, Cayuga County in Upstate New York has a population density of 110/sq mile, while New York County (AKA Manhattan) has a population density of 75,000/sq mile, but they both show as the same colour on this map. It has the effect of flattening the differences between high and low density areas and hides how urbanized the US really is.

  • @Orange_Pear

    @Orange_Pear

    5 ай бұрын

    I disagree

  • @FalconArtistic

    @FalconArtistic

    Ай бұрын

    INDIGENOUS PEOPLEs

  • @terryhale9006
    @terryhale9006 Жыл бұрын

    Wonderful! Would be nice to see a similar time map for each segment of the population: Indigenous Americans, Irish, British, Polish, African Americans, Italians, etc.

  • @EonServoXA

    @EonServoXA

    Жыл бұрын

    For indigenous Americans, it would be super depressing to watch as it would just slowly decrease, unless you include Native-American Latinos

  • @terryhale9006

    @terryhale9006

    Жыл бұрын

    @@EonServoXA Depressing but educational.

  • @SometimesItsAlex

    @SometimesItsAlex

    Жыл бұрын

    No one kept track of native populations or African slaves because they weren’t seen as people. The other categories might be possible but not sure what the point would be.

  • @MondoMiami

    @MondoMiami

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, because we all must be labeled, tribalized and victimized at every turn.

  • @KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv

    @KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@@SometimesItsAlexthey were counted dummy And more slaves in Brazil and middle eastern countries at the time

  • @thecitizenoftheinternet1077
    @thecitizenoftheinternet10773 жыл бұрын

    This map was actually kinda satisfying to watch. Especially at 2x speed.

  • @jonathanmillner
    @jonathanmillner Жыл бұрын

    It should probably be pointed out that this is merely a population of US census included population. There were millions of natives in the west during some of this history, but record keeping their population density wasn't exactly a practice they participated in at that time.

  • @donquixote3927

    @donquixote3927

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, difficult to show when, they would have outnumbered settlers for a couple of hundred years after 1492, in spite of the diseases.

  • @kidkique

    @kidkique

    Жыл бұрын

    Don't forget the black people... slaves were not counted and the census for most of us history and when they were begun to be included they only counted as half a person. So without the natives and the slaves you pretty much just have a map of white population density

  • @-Subtle-

    @-Subtle-

    Жыл бұрын

    It should also be pointed out at the end, this is where people live and this is where people vote. When we say "Dirt Doesn't Vote" those goofy red or blue maps are a drastic misrepresentation of how America votes. It's even more misrepresenting because the last 2 presidential elections: "Did not vote" won.

  • @tyket5929

    @tyket5929

    Жыл бұрын

    You people just can’t resist can you

  • @jonathanmillner

    @jonathanmillner

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kidkique yep, also totally true!

  • @tescomealdeals4613
    @tescomealdeals46133 жыл бұрын

    why is no one talking about Florida, it went from literally no one at the turn of the century, to literally all dark by the end of the century.

  • @X1GenKaneShiroX

    @X1GenKaneShiroX

    2 жыл бұрын

    Comparison of Florida and New York population and population density. Florida land area - 53,997 square miles New York land area - 47,224 square miles Florida demographics 1830: 34,730 people Density is 0.64 PPSM 1920: 968,470 people Density is 17.94 PPSM 2021: 21,837,568 people Density is 404.42 PPSM New York demographics 1830: 1,918,608 people Density is 40.63 PPSM 1920: 10,385,227 people Density is 219.91 PPSM 2021: 20,174,987 people Density is 427.22 PPSM

  • @TrainsFerriesFeet

    @TrainsFerriesFeet

    Жыл бұрын

    The invention of air conditioning.

  • @ztoxtube

    @ztoxtube

    Жыл бұрын

    Disney is what happened there.

  • @ShadowDragon-cw7wb

    @ShadowDragon-cw7wb

    Жыл бұрын

    AC, Spaceflight, Disney, mass immigration, C19

  • @jmundi2002

    @jmundi2002

    4 ай бұрын

    It wasn’t part of the US at that time…

  • @senecakw
    @senecakw Жыл бұрын

    Would have been helpful to show state borders and major cities. The map is much harder to understand without them.

  • @TheDevinWilliamsChannel
    @TheDevinWilliamsChannel3 жыл бұрын

    Please make a new one including the 2020 data. I really love this video. Thank you.

  • @Mastermind111111

    @Mastermind111111

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah you would see the California to Texas migration

  • @LoliPolice-bf7mw
    @LoliPolice-bf7mw Жыл бұрын

    The massive German population growth in the Midwest from 1805-1930 was amazing to see

  • @scotty3114
    @scotty3114 Жыл бұрын

    Imagine if the indigenous people were also counted.

  • @sandeegrey5977

    @sandeegrey5977

    Жыл бұрын

    They lost, we won. Who cares

  • @Ussonan-Foderation2016

    @Ussonan-Foderation2016

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@sandeegrey5977indigenous people

  • @epicow_1973

    @epicow_1973

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@sandeegrey5977american people aswell

  • @livewire2759

    @livewire2759

    Ай бұрын

    It wouldn't really make much difference on a presentation like this. The west was very sparsely populated by natives, so the lowest density here (0-2/sq mi) is fairly accurate. The only place you'd see it make a difference is in Oklahoma, which was "indian territory" for about 100 years or so... that's why it stayed lightly colored while Kansas above and Texas below were filling in. Had the natives been counted in the US census', it would have filled in about the same, but still slower as the native population there didn't grow as fast as the official US population at the time.

  • @livewire2759

    @livewire2759

    Ай бұрын

    @@iBRiDGE380 They were still living in the stone age hundreds of years after the majority of the world had advanced well beyond that. Yes, many were treated very badly, but in the end, they're actually better off now than they would have been otherwise. Yes, those that live on reservations are considered "poor" by modern standards, but the fact is, they're still a lot less "poor" than they were before the Europeans showed up. Yes, many were killed over the few hundred years of European expansion, but there was no "genocide"... around 1/4 of the current US population has some native "blood" in their genes, which which means there has been a significant INCREASE in their population in the time since the European expansion. Given the choice, the vast majority of natives today would choose, and have chosen, to live a modern life with modern amenities, and the ones that haven't, don't give the slightest shit about some random white person crying for them.

  • @chrismoule7242
    @chrismoule7242 Жыл бұрын

    As a Englishmen, I find it fascinating to see the map in 1861/64. The Civil War really WAS between the North & the South.

  • @BillHosko
    @BillHosko3 жыл бұрын

    Tremendous work. Thank you.

  • @RacingStatistics

    @RacingStatistics

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv

    @KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv

    9 ай бұрын

    Show population in millions per year

  • @lifewithbicybic4529
    @lifewithbicybic4529 Жыл бұрын

    If you look closely you'll notice after the 1920s how small rural areas are shrinking while big cities are growing

  • @jaytaro808
    @jaytaro8082 жыл бұрын

    exactly what i was curious of. thanks!

  • @LoganNagol
    @LoganNagol6 ай бұрын

    0:35 We never really hear about how Louisiana basically developed independently from the rest of the United States. Like the US pretty much is just expanding outward from the colonies except for one isolated population that is developing a thousand miles away.

  • @MatinAmerica
    @MatinAmerica3 жыл бұрын

    What an incredible story it is. The common man can own land and live on his own, providing for his own without control of a ruling class. That's a human spirit ideal, not just American, to be free of any tyranny. What if we didn't need the government? Not all was good, but the idea of individuals working to provide on their own, for their own, is great.

  • @MrRoyboythepwn

    @MrRoyboythepwn

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah we’ll no one can afford land anymore

  • @centralheterochromia9713

    @centralheterochromia9713

    3 жыл бұрын

    An agrarian society like that is one of Thomas Jefferson’s ideals I believe

  • @Blaqjaqshellaq

    @Blaqjaqshellaq

    Жыл бұрын

    It helps when you're militarily stronger than the First Nations whose land you're stealing...

  • @h0eera.115

    @h0eera.115

    Жыл бұрын

    Then we would go back to subsistence farming, like Sub-saharan Africa...

  • @milin7120

    @milin7120

    Жыл бұрын

    All fake n stolen 🤢🤢 literally none of y'all r native just Europe immigrants invaders

  • @MikeTheGoat_2442
    @MikeTheGoat_2442 Жыл бұрын

    Love it!

  • @Matthew_Carlton
    @Matthew_Carlton4 ай бұрын

    Very fascinating! What software did you use to make this? I want to try making an animated county map like this but am not sure where to start.

  • @ScottLee-xw8vm

    @ScottLee-xw8vm

    2 ай бұрын

    That's the same thing I'm wondering

  • @porainessemundao
    @porainessemundao Жыл бұрын

    É verdade que em um futuro bem próximo, cidades na zona equatorial passarão a ser inabitáveis por causa das mudanças climáticas? Isso dá para reverter ainda ou já é uma realidade?

  • @xtopia9758
    @xtopia97584 жыл бұрын

    amazing 😉 video

  • @Foebane72
    @Foebane72 Жыл бұрын

    2010: There are still several small areas of the Western half of the US completely unoccupied.

  • @stevegolacks8731
    @stevegolacks8731 Жыл бұрын

    South Florida would have been a great buy in 1900

  • @dogebread9814
    @dogebread98143 жыл бұрын

    the outline around Oklahoma lol

  • @unrealisticfiction4182

    @unrealisticfiction4182

    3 жыл бұрын

    timestamp 1:57

  • @livewire2759

    @livewire2759

    Ай бұрын

    Oklahoma was "indian territory" for a long time, meaning the US govt. never did any census taking there until it was granted statehood well after the surrounding states. When the dots suddenly show up around OK city and Tulsa is when it became a state.

  • @bruceaii3664
    @bruceaii36645 жыл бұрын

    And now we've Manifest Destiny'd our way into every corner of the globe. Bringing freedom everywhere we go.

  • @RacingStatistics

    @RacingStatistics

    5 жыл бұрын

    "Bringing freedom" is a strong and debatable phrase..

  • @bob494949

    @bob494949

    3 жыл бұрын

    But no freedom in America, now. Wear your mask, your work is closed, stay home. Oh and your vote is stolen in plain sight.

  • @bruceaii3664

    @bruceaii3664

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bob494949 What a difference a year makes

  • @kirilll7806

    @kirilll7806

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bob494949 wearing mask is necessary.

  • @Fissan_Poulsen

    @Fissan_Poulsen

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kirilll7806 And now we know it wasn't.

  • @MATT-qu7pl
    @MATT-qu7pl Жыл бұрын

    What's that first city west of the Appalachian mountains? Lexington?

  • @nightcitydrive534
    @nightcitydrive5343 жыл бұрын

    Nice

  • @SometimesItsAlex
    @SometimesItsAlex Жыл бұрын

    You forgot about all of the people who were living here already.

  • @Brandon_J

    @Brandon_J

    Жыл бұрын

    It's not like they kept records. This isn't possible to show.

  • @mwittmann68

    @mwittmann68

    Жыл бұрын

    They couldn't even write

  • @livewire2759

    @livewire2759

    Ай бұрын

    The smallest population represented here is 0-2 per sq mi... which is actually pretty accurate for the amount of natives living there at that time. Of course, this is based on US census reports, which obviously weren't reporting native populations that weren't US citizens.

  • @nnlark
    @nnlark4 жыл бұрын

    best viewed at 1.75x like the original gif

  • @lexrio
    @lexrio3 жыл бұрын

    We really said 🏃‍♂️⬅️ then freedom

  • @robertshonk518
    @robertshonk518 Жыл бұрын

    1860-1890: Hey natives, Oklahoma is all yours! 1890s: On second thought...

  • @huihui1842
    @huihui1842 Жыл бұрын

    明らかに日本よりも可住地割合が大きいよな😳😳😳

  • @anthonyg7933
    @anthonyg7933 Жыл бұрын

    Nice to know my area was the darkest color right out of the gate.

  • @evog35viii
    @evog35viii Жыл бұрын

    That infestation though

  • @EmperorDionx
    @EmperorDionx7 ай бұрын

    Country is basically looking how its always gonna look by 1914

  • @ddduva4440
    @ddduva4440 Жыл бұрын

    How about since 2020 and the Pandemic?

  • @ponraul1221
    @ponraul12212 жыл бұрын

    RIP the American Frontier 1776 - 1912

  • @thunderbird1921

    @thunderbird1921

    Жыл бұрын

    Alaska still exists pal.

  • @EonServoXA

    @EonServoXA

    Жыл бұрын

    You still have Wyoming

  • @bikashshah5361
    @bikashshah53614 жыл бұрын

    USA IS BIG AND STRONG I wish I would Born there I will be that Country President

  • @bikashshah5361

    @bikashshah5361

    4 жыл бұрын

    @balerina rockarolla You are right

  • @EonServoXA

    @EonServoXA

    Жыл бұрын

    You wouldn’t want to be a president. Not only is it very hard to even have the opportunity to run, when you get elected you have the responsibility of 360M people on your back and your name will be in everyone’s dinner conversation. Also, whenever you become president, you’ve basically lost your freedom because secret service has to monitor you 24/7 and you’re not allowed to drive even when you’re out of office

  • @dachicagoan8185
    @dachicagoan81858 ай бұрын

    You can see how the rural midwest stopped growing and they all went westward.

  • @chaotic.taco14
    @chaotic.taco143 ай бұрын

    so like why dosent the usa flip upside down because of the pressure on one side

  • @RacingStatistics

    @RacingStatistics

    3 ай бұрын

    Good question

  • @gogo-vq4vr
    @gogo-vq4vr Жыл бұрын

    sooo.they were no citizens in CA until 1850?

  • @Zeroneii3
    @Zeroneii3 Жыл бұрын

    is this accounted for inflation?

  • @Zeroneii3

    @Zeroneii3

    Жыл бұрын

    @anthonykelley4044 just making a joke lmao

  • @elihochberg752
    @elihochberg752 Жыл бұрын

    So why are there some colors like GREEN that isn't in the key???? Please fix this for next time.

  • @livewire2759

    @livewire2759

    Ай бұрын

    LOL That's an optical illusion... like when you stare at a light, then look into the dark and you still see the shape of the light. When your eyes do that with different shades of the same color, it can make it look like there are different colors sometimes.

  • @itsglen9646
    @itsglen9646 Жыл бұрын

    I think there's an overcount in North Carolina, and undercount in Virginia.

  • @northwolf

    @northwolf

    Жыл бұрын

    The population in North Carolina is fairly evenly distributed (and NC is the 9th most populous state in the nation, with 10.3 million people). So there are a lot of counties with the highest density (darkest red) of 90+ people per square mile. I've lived in NC my whole life, and can attest to this. The central part of the state (from Charlotte to Greensboro and Winston-Salem and then over to Raleigh) is all heavily populated. There aren't that many counties with a very low population, and those are mainly near the coast, and a few of the western-most mountain counties.

  • @KartovOndulevitch
    @KartovOndulevitch10 ай бұрын

    Seems than the top 3 last empty spaces were Idaho (bronze), Montana (silver) and Nevada (gold). I would have bet on Arizona or Dakota (I'm not american)

  • @Ussonan-Foderation2016
    @Ussonan-Foderation2016 Жыл бұрын

    San Antonio casually being dense for a long time

  • @repsxvault
    @repsxvault Жыл бұрын

    The guy in California or Nevada in 1846

  • @OrganMusicYT
    @OrganMusicYT Жыл бұрын

    In 1846, England did not sign the Oregon Treaty, the United Kingdom did - the United Kingdom is not England.

  • @alfonsomartin6502
    @alfonsomartin6502 Жыл бұрын

    Ishould add the spanish population was already there before.

  • @michaelchmar8724
    @michaelchmar87243 жыл бұрын

    CA, TX, NV and CO rank low in Densely populated

  • @PatrickHogan
    @PatrickHogan Жыл бұрын

    Ummm, there were people living in all of those places already

  • @livewire2759

    @livewire2759

    Ай бұрын

    Ummm, this is based on the US census... they didn't count people that they didn't know about at the time. Besides, the lowest density on the scale is 0-2/sq mi... 2 people per square mile is actually quite high for the native population at the time.

  • @joancarlesjordacamarasa5234
    @joancarlesjordacamarasa5234 Жыл бұрын

    Daniel BOOM explota.

  • @dandoyle4519
    @dandoyle4519 Жыл бұрын

    Looks like a slow cancer death. It spreads real slow. It takes over before you know it. There's nothing left

  • @bobadelman7580
    @bobadelman7580 Жыл бұрын

    Are you suggesting there were no native Americans in 1790?

  • @EonServoXA

    @EonServoXA

    Жыл бұрын

    There were obviously a lot, but there is very little information and records on population for natives at the time

  • @gogo-vq4vr
    @gogo-vq4vr Жыл бұрын

    and how about before 1790? lets say 1400?

  • @SQUAREHEADSAM1912

    @SQUAREHEADSAM1912

    Жыл бұрын

    In 1400 there was only natives.

  • @coreymartin5185
    @coreymartin5185 Жыл бұрын

    Cavalry not Calvary

  • @TheChristianDino1
    @TheChristianDino1 Жыл бұрын

    It looks like a pizza in the thumbnail

  • @corvoide
    @corvoide Жыл бұрын

    The Spanish settlements inexistant?

  • @bodassassin6387

    @bodassassin6387

    Жыл бұрын

    It’s only counts US settlements

  • @dofelf3845
    @dofelf38453 жыл бұрын

    more like centralward expansion!

  • @danielroldan-johnson7465
    @danielroldan-johnson7465 Жыл бұрын

    What about the native peoples?!?!

  • @waragque

    @waragque

    Жыл бұрын

    There are very few of them compared to Europeans or Africans.

  • @tylerkriesel8590

    @tylerkriesel8590

    6 ай бұрын

    There weren’t that many of them.

  • @principalmcvicker6530
    @principalmcvicker65302 жыл бұрын

    Natives: 😑

  • @sahilwarwal2095
    @sahilwarwal20953 жыл бұрын

    Who are ancestors of modern Americans?

  • @soberman1520

    @soberman1520

    2 жыл бұрын

    Some ape

  • @what6893

    @what6893

    Жыл бұрын

    The British, Africans, Irish, Mexicans... The list goes on and on.

  • @EonServoXA

    @EonServoXA

    Жыл бұрын

    Modern Americans can be any race. If you mean white people, then it was immigrants all throughout Europe, but mostly English, Scottish, Irish, and Italians

  • @bobbarclay316
    @bobbarclay316Ай бұрын

    The highest part of the country and the nuts roll down hill each way. Works with people too I guess.

  • @PANZERFAUST90
    @PANZERFAUST90 Жыл бұрын

    There's no such thing as a Mormon. Mormon was a person.

  • @valentia1752
    @valentia17522 жыл бұрын

    This music is way too positive for a colonization model

  • @rbwirth12
    @rbwirth12 Жыл бұрын

    Looks like cancer cells spreading.

  • @mklinger23
    @mklinger23 Жыл бұрын

    Is this just Europeans?

  • @jackwood594

    @jackwood594

    Жыл бұрын

    Ye

  • @EonServoXA

    @EonServoXA

    Жыл бұрын

    no, any US citizens

  • @Lucky.Man.Altimori
    @Lucky.Man.Altimori4 жыл бұрын

    Too many white plane surfaces perhaps desert or 100,000 acres ranch farms

  • @RacingStatistics

    @RacingStatistics

    4 жыл бұрын

    The data doesn't include native Americans, only colonists

  • @Lucky.Man.Altimori

    @Lucky.Man.Altimori

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@RacingStatistics I was talking about Y2K onwards....😑😏☺

  • @xo9103
    @xo91033 жыл бұрын

    lets pretend natives never existed!

  • @EonServoXA

    @EonServoXA

    Жыл бұрын

    Do you know how hard it is to keep population records of indigenous tribes? Especially in the 1700s

  • @skeemarty
    @skeemarty Жыл бұрын

    id like to see the native American decline and genocide over the years

  • @barcelonaingenieria5172
    @barcelonaingenieria51722 жыл бұрын

    FANTASTIIIC ! NOW NEED ONE OF MEXICO ! USA in the 21 century should add the norht of Mexico otherwise its people going to pay a lot for having a house .....as no land cheap on sale...

  • @EonServoXA

    @EonServoXA

    Жыл бұрын

    We don’t need another Mex-American War

  • @Freddeh111
    @Freddeh111 Жыл бұрын

    So you don't consider the first nations as American? Try to forget how many millions of people there was spreaded throughout north America before the Europeans "discovered it". Because I'm sure this map only considers the migration of Europeans expanding towards the west. Not to mention, pushing the already existing population out of their homes and further much worst. I just look at this map as the expansion of greed and self interest.

  • @chinglioteca
    @chinglioteca5 жыл бұрын

    ☑ Interpolated census data to pad runtime ☑ Video game loading screen music ☑ Lol what Natives? ☑ American exceptionalism ☐ Conestoga pixel art

  • @Taiwanese-editshistory
    @Taiwanese-editshistory Жыл бұрын

    Ohio😂

  • @joebloggs396
    @joebloggs396 Жыл бұрын

    Western colonisation.

  • @mwittmann68
    @mwittmann68 Жыл бұрын

    The plague is spreading

  • @marvintpandroid2213
    @marvintpandroid2213 Жыл бұрын

    "invader population density"

  • @Barry_be_hatin

    @Barry_be_hatin

    Жыл бұрын

    natives sucked at warfare... should of fought harder for "your" land. sucks to suck

  • @waragque

    @waragque

    Жыл бұрын

    "Indigenous of the Americas" are also invaders actually. It's just replacing bad invaders with good ones.

  • @tobsstone
    @tobsstone Жыл бұрын

    Spreading like a disease.