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

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  • 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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Komentáře • 197

  • @Meyers1793
    @Meyers1793 Před 11 měsíci +100

    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.

  • @joeredfield979
    @joeredfield979 Před 4 lety +312

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

    • @strikefg
      @strikefg Před 2 lety +61

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

    • @AWCTB
      @AWCTB Před rokem +9

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

    • @stuffedbunnychess
      @stuffedbunnychess Před rokem +15

      @@AWCTB It would be harder if we collapsed

    • @user-cmcumm
      @user-cmcumm Před rokem +7

      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 Před rokem +6

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

  • @terryhale9006
    @terryhale9006 Před rokem +71

    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 Před rokem +16

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

    • @terryhale9006
      @terryhale9006 Před rokem +8

      @@EonServoXA Depressing but educational.

    • @SometimesItsAlex
      @SometimesItsAlex Před 11 měsíci +2

      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 Před 11 měsíci

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

    • @KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv
      @KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv Před 8 měsíci

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

  • @thecitizenoftheinternet1077

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

  • @senecakw
    @senecakw Před rokem +31

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

  • @jonathanmillner
    @jonathanmillner Před rokem +138

    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 Před rokem +6

      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 Před rokem +7

      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- Před rokem +1

      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 Před rokem

      You people just can’t resist can you

    • @jonathanmillner
      @jonathanmillner Před rokem

      @@kidkique yep, also totally true!

  • @Cosmonaut_Devin
    @Cosmonaut_Devin Před 3 lety +25

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

    • @Mastermind111111
      @Mastermind111111 Před rokem +4

      Yeah you would see the California to Texas migration

  • @tescomealdeals4613
    @tescomealdeals4613 Před 3 lety +32

    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 Před 2 lety +5

      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 Před rokem +13

      The invention of air conditioning.

    • @ztoxtube
      @ztoxtube Před rokem +3

      Disney is what happened there.

    • @ShadowDragon-cw7wb
      @ShadowDragon-cw7wb Před rokem +2

      AC, Spaceflight, Disney, mass immigration, C19

    • @jmundi2002
      @jmundi2002 Před 2 měsíci

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

  • @LoliPolice-bf7mw
    @LoliPolice-bf7mw Před 11 měsíci +25

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

  • @BillHosko
    @BillHosko Před 3 lety +28

    Tremendous work. Thank you.

  • @scotty3114
    @scotty3114 Před rokem +25

    Imagine if the indigenous people were also counted.

    • @sandeegrey5977
      @sandeegrey5977 Před 11 měsíci +3

      They lost, we won. Who cares

    • @Usonan-Foderation2016
      @Usonan-Foderation2016 Před 11 měsíci +6

      ​@@sandeegrey5977indigenous people

    • @epicow_1973
      @epicow_1973 Před 11 měsíci +2

      ​@@sandeegrey5977american people aswell

    • @livewire2759
      @livewire2759 Před 3 dny

      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 Před 3 dny

      @@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 Před rokem +21

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

  • @lifewithbicybic4529
    @lifewithbicybic4529 Před 11 měsíci +5

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

  • @LoganNagol
    @LoganNagol Před 5 měsíci +2

    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.

  • @jaytaro808
    @jaytaro808 Před 2 lety +2

    exactly what i was curious of. thanks!

  • @Foebane72
    @Foebane72 Před 11 měsíci +2

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

  • @MatinAmerica
    @MatinAmerica Před 3 lety +30

    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 Před 3 lety +1

      Yeah we’ll no one can afford land anymore

    • @centralheterochromia9713
      @centralheterochromia9713 Před 3 lety +2

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

    • @Blaqjaqshellaq
      @Blaqjaqshellaq Před rokem +2

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

    • @h0eera.115
      @h0eera.115 Před rokem

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

    • @milin7120
      @milin7120 Před rokem

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

  • @dogebread9814
    @dogebread9814 Před 3 lety +19

    the outline around Oklahoma lol

    • @unrealisticfiction4182
      @unrealisticfiction4182 Před 3 lety +1

      timestamp 1:57

    • @livewire2759
      @livewire2759 Před 3 dny

      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.

  • @MrGriff305
    @MrGriff305 Před rokem +7

    Florida went last.. Needed air conditioning 😅

  • @porainessemundao
    @porainessemundao Před 11 měsíci

    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?

  • @Matthew_Carlton
    @Matthew_Carlton Před 3 měsíci

    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.

  • @MATT-qu7pl
    @MATT-qu7pl Před 11 měsíci

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

  • @stevegolacks8731
    @stevegolacks8731 Před 11 měsíci +2

    South Florida would have been a great buy in 1900

  • @bruceaii3664
    @bruceaii3664 Před 5 lety +23

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

    • @RacingStatistics
      @RacingStatistics  Před 5 lety +38

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

    • @bob494949
      @bob494949 Před 3 lety +6

      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 Před 3 lety +1

      @@bob494949 What a difference a year makes

    • @kirilll7806
      @kirilll7806 Před 3 lety +6

      @@bob494949 wearing mask is necessary.

    • @Fissan_Poulsen
      @Fissan_Poulsen Před 2 lety +5

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

  • @MikeTheGoat_2442
    @MikeTheGoat_2442 Před 11 měsíci

    Love it!

  • @SometimesItsAlex
    @SometimesItsAlex Před 11 měsíci +2

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

    • @Brandon_J
      @Brandon_J Před 11 měsíci +2

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

    • @mwittmann68
      @mwittmann68 Před 11 měsíci +1

      They couldn't even write

    • @livewire2759
      @livewire2759 Před 3 dny

      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.

  • @lexrio
    @lexrio Před 3 lety +4

    We really said 🏃‍♂️⬅️ then freedom

  • @evog35viii
    @evog35viii Před 11 měsíci +2

    That infestation though

  • @huihui1842
    @huihui1842 Před 11 měsíci +3

    明らかに日本よりも可住地割合が大きいよな😳😳😳

  • @xtopia9758
    @xtopia9758 Před 4 lety +1

    amazing 😉 video

  • @bikashshah5361
    @bikashshah5361 Před 4 lety +9

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

    • @bikashshah5361
      @bikashshah5361 Před 3 lety

      @balerina rockarolla You are right

    • @EonServoXA
      @EonServoXA Před rokem

      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

  • @robertshonk518
    @robertshonk518 Před 11 měsíci +1

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

  • @Zeroneii3
    @Zeroneii3 Před 11 měsíci +2

    is this accounted for inflation?

    • @Zeroneii3
      @Zeroneii3 Před 11 měsíci

      @anthonykelley4044 just making a joke lmao

  • @dachicagoan8185
    @dachicagoan8185 Před 7 měsíci

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

  • @EmperorDionx
    @EmperorDionx Před 6 měsíci

    Country is basically looking how its always gonna look by 1914

  • @nnlark
    @nnlark Před 4 lety +2

    best viewed at 1.75x like the original gif

  • @nightcitydrive534
    @nightcitydrive534 Před 3 lety

    Nice

  • @chaotic.taco14
    @chaotic.taco14 Před 2 měsíci +1

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

  • @ponraul1221
    @ponraul1221 Před rokem +8

    RIP the American Frontier 1776 - 1912

  • @anthonyg7933
    @anthonyg7933 Před rokem

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

  • @ddduva4440
    @ddduva4440 Před 11 měsíci

    How about since 2020 and the Pandemic?

  • @gogo-vq4vr
    @gogo-vq4vr Před 11 měsíci

    sooo.they were no citizens in CA until 1850?

  • @elihochberg752
    @elihochberg752 Před 11 měsíci

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

    • @livewire2759
      @livewire2759 Před 3 dny

      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.

  • @alfonsomartin6502
    @alfonsomartin6502 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Ishould add the spanish population was already there before.

  • @dandoyle4519
    @dandoyle4519 Před 11 měsíci +1

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

  • @itsglen9646
    @itsglen9646 Před rokem

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

    • @northwolf
      @northwolf Před 11 měsíci +1

      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.

  • @OrganMusicYT
    @OrganMusicYT Před 11 měsíci +1

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

  • @KartovOndulevitch
    @KartovOndulevitch Před 8 měsíci

    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)

  • @repsxvault
    @repsxvault Před 11 měsíci

    The guy in California or Nevada in 1846

  • @Usonan-Foderation2016
    @Usonan-Foderation2016 Před 11 měsíci

    San Antonio casually being dense for a long time

  • @michaelchmar8724
    @michaelchmar8724 Před 3 lety

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

  • @bobadelman7580
    @bobadelman7580 Před rokem +1

    Are you suggesting there were no native Americans in 1790?

    • @EonServoXA
      @EonServoXA Před rokem +1

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

  • @coreymartin5185
    @coreymartin5185 Před rokem

    Cavalry not Calvary

  • @gogo-vq4vr
    @gogo-vq4vr Před 11 měsíci

    and how about before 1790? lets say 1400?

  • @PatrickHogan
    @PatrickHogan Před 11 měsíci

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

    • @livewire2759
      @livewire2759 Před 3 dny

      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 Před 11 měsíci

    Daniel BOOM explota.

  • @danielroldan-johnson7465

    What about the native peoples?!?!

    • @waragque
      @waragque Před 11 měsíci

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

    • @tylerkriesel8590
      @tylerkriesel8590 Před 5 měsíci

      There weren’t that many of them.

  • @corvoide
    @corvoide Před 11 měsíci

    The Spanish settlements inexistant?

  • @dofelf3845
    @dofelf3845 Před 3 lety +4

    more like centralward expansion!

  • @sahilwarwal2095
    @sahilwarwal2095 Před 3 lety

    Who are ancestors of modern Americans?

    • @soberman1520
      @soberman1520 Před 2 lety +5

      Some ape

    • @what6893
      @what6893 Před rokem +4

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

    • @EonServoXA
      @EonServoXA Před rokem +1

      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

  • @principalmcvicker6530
    @principalmcvicker6530 Před rokem +2

    Natives: 😑

  • @TheChristianDino1
    @TheChristianDino1 Před 11 měsíci

    It looks like a pizza in the thumbnail

  • @Lucky.Man.Altimori
    @Lucky.Man.Altimori Před 4 lety +4

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

    • @RacingStatistics
      @RacingStatistics  Před 4 lety

      The data doesn't include native Americans, only colonists

    • @Lucky.Man.Altimori
      @Lucky.Man.Altimori Před 4 lety

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

  • @PANZERFAUST90
    @PANZERFAUST90 Před rokem +1

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

  • @mklinger23
    @mklinger23 Před rokem +1

    Is this just Europeans?

  • @xo9103
    @xo9103 Před 3 lety +9

    lets pretend natives never existed!

    • @EonServoXA
      @EonServoXA Před rokem +1

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

  • @rbwirth12
    @rbwirth12 Před rokem +4

    Looks like cancer cells spreading.

  • @valentia1752
    @valentia1752 Před 2 lety +6

    This music is way too positive for a colonization model

  • @brunonaime5889
    @brunonaime5889 Před rokem +1

    I am just wondering about that from the Indigenous people perspective 🤔

  • @barcelonaingenieria5172
    @barcelonaingenieria5172 Před 2 lety +1

    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 Před rokem

      We don’t need another Mex-American War

  • @chinglioteca
    @chinglioteca Před 5 lety +9

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

  • @skeemarty
    @skeemarty Před 11 měsíci +1

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

  • @Freddeh111
    @Freddeh111 Před 11 měsíci

    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.

  • @Taiwanese-editshistory
    @Taiwanese-editshistory Před 11 měsíci

    Ohio😂

  • @joebloggs396
    @joebloggs396 Před 11 měsíci

    Western colonisation.

  • @mwittmann68
    @mwittmann68 Před 11 měsíci +1

    The plague is spreading

  • @marvintpandroid2213
    @marvintpandroid2213 Před 11 měsíci +1

    "invader population density"

    • @Barry_be_hatin
      @Barry_be_hatin Před 11 měsíci

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

    • @waragque
      @waragque Před 11 měsíci

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

  • @tobsstone
    @tobsstone Před 11 měsíci +1

    Spreading like a disease.