What this is.

What you'll find on usadatamap.com

usadatamap is a one-person publication. Every map you see here is built from a public source — the U.S. Census Bureau, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the IRS Statistics of Income, the Energy Information Administration, the U.S. Geological Survey, and Zillow — and rendered through a custom programmatic pipeline that emphasizes typographic clarity and editorial framing over mere chartwork.

Why a map a day

The pipeline lets one person ship one map per weekday at a quality that has traditionally required a full design team. Every article includes the source attribution and a methodology section so you can replicate the chart yourself if you want.

Editorial bias

I find geographic data interesting because it disagrees with the stories we tell about America. Whenever a national headline says something is happening “across the country,” there is almost always a county-level map that says otherwise. usadatamap exists to find those maps and put them in front of readers.

Topics I cover

• Economics: cost of living, prices, wages, GDP, regional output.
• Demographics: population change, age, race, household composition.
• Business: exports, industry mix, employment by sector.
• Housing & migration: home prices, rent, mortgage qualifying salary, IRS-measured moves.
• Wildcard: water, energy, infrastructure, anything that benefits from a map.

Contact

Reach me at [email protected]. For embedding, licensing, corrections, or press inquiries, hit reply on any newsletter or use that email.