Friday Factday: Majority of Metro Atlanta Millennials Willing to Pay Higher Taxes to Expand Public Transit
Monday Mapday: Declining Share of 65 Plus Population
In (Most) Core Urban Areas in Region
The Atlanta Metro region as a whole experienced widespread growth in the proportion of residents that is 65 years and over between 2000 and the most recent American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates (2012-16). The map below shows the areas with the greatest change in proportion in dark purple and areas of more modest growth [...]
Friday Factday: Perceptions of Our Biggest Problem–Atlanta and the State
A Stroll Through Different Polls
Polls have certainly gotten a great deal of attention lately, for better or worse! Despite some of their shortcomings, polls can tell us some very interesting things, particularly when we are able to see enough difference in answers to eliminate the poll's necessary margin of error as a major concern for interpreting results. Things [...]
Monday Mapday: Generation X in Metro Atlanta
Classifying age groups into "generations" is by no means a perfect science. Nonetheless, it's almost always helpful when assessing economic, political, and cultural trends to group people based on the year they were born. The "Baby Boomer" generation is, of course, defined as those being born following WWII-- as GIs returned home to the [...]
Friday Factday: Residents age 65 and older in Atlanta
May is designated Older Americans Month, first established in 1963 by President John F. Kennedy. To celebrate metro Atlanta's older residents, this Friday Factday adapts the U.S. Census Bureau's Facts for Features to share data about residents age 65 and older. In 2015, there were 636,691 residents 65 or older living in metro Atlanta (MSA). [...]
Monday Mapday: Oldest and Youngest Neighborhoods
Using median age from the 2010 U.S. Census, this map shows the "youngest" neighborhoods in purple (median age ranging from 16.1 to 31.3) and the "oldest" neighborhoods in blue (a median age ranging from 39.6 to 52.7). The areas with a youngest median age are primarily concentrated in the core counties of Fulton, Clayton, DeKalb, [...]
Monday Mapday: Senior Population
This map shows the neighborhoods in metro Atlanta that have the highest densities of senior residents (age 65+). In these neighborhoods, at least 25% of households have an individual age 65 or older. These areas are fairly spread out throughout the region, with high concentrations in suburban counties such as Spalding, Fayette, Newton, Walton, and [...]
Monday Mapday: Population Age 65+ in Poverty
The blue areas in this map highlight neighborhoods in metro Atlanta that have a high percentage of residents age 65 and older living in poverty. While the urban core appears to have high concentrations of seniors living poverty, there are pockets of poverty spread throughout the region. Data source: 2010-2014 American Community Survey via Neighborhood Nexus [...]
Changes in racial diversity of millennials/young professionals
As a whole, metro Atlanta is becoming increasingly diverse—but what about racial and ethnic diversity for millennials/young professionals, age 20-34? Text highlights are below, but scroll down to view trends and county-specific data in our 2010-2015 Population Change by Race: Total Population and Age 20-34 tool. Let’s take a look at overall trends from 2010-2015 [...]