In Fall 2015, there were around 737,000 students attending schools in the fourteen school districts in metro Atlanta. This interactive tool looks at student enrollment by school district, grade, and individual schools. Click through the tabs and use the filtering and highlighting tools to explore the numbers for your school district (hover over points on [...]
Did the Atlanta region grow faster in the 40s or the 80s? This video shows the peak period for population growth for each of the Atlanta region's ten counties. The lines show the average percent increase/decrease by decade. As a whole, the region had the largest percentage gains in the 1950s, growing around 38 percent [...]
This tool uses Esri's 2016 Population Estimates to show age trends in metro Atlanta. Click through the visuals below to find out what percentage of a county's residents are a certain age, how counties compare in their share of residents from different age ranges (check out who has the greatest percentage of millennials and young professionals [...]
This analysis looks at employment by industry and related wage trends among 19- to 34-year-olds today, known collectively as “millennials.” Despite higher levels of educational attainment and a U.S. economy 70% more productive than it was in the mid-1980s, the group is finding it difficult translating high education levels into higher earnings[i]. The dire situation [...]
The U.S. Census Bureau surveys U.S. residents on their place of birth to compare with the place they currently live. This provides an idea of geographic mobility and migration. The native population includes everyone who was born in the U.S. or was born outside of the U.S. but had at least one parent who was [...]
People often say that cost of living is low in Atlanta. And they are right, relative to many other metros, as our snapshot this month showed (How Expensive Is It to Live in Metro Atlanta?). But, when considering minimum wage and the needs of various family types, can working adults earn the minimum income [...]
Taken from this month's Regional Snapshot, this map explores cost-of-living across the largest metropolitan areas in the United States. Red and green dots mark the cities with a lower cost- of-living index while blues indicate the highest. As you might have guessed, New York has the highest Cost of Living Index of 227.4- more than double than the [...]
Ever wonder how expensive Atlanta is compared to other cities? We have an answer for you! This month's Regional Snapshot looks at how expensive it is to live in different metropolitan areas by exploring data related to cost-of-living. Here are the key findings, but you can access the full report here: Metro Atlanta’s overall cost-of-living is [...]
Most school systems throughout metro Atlanta had their graduation ceremonies over the past couple of weeks as these recent graduates prepare for the next stage in their lives. Many will go to a four-year college, some will go to a technical college and others won't enroll in any post-secondary institution and instead will jump directly into the workforce. [...]
How did the population of metro Atlanta cities change from 2010-2015? Newly released U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates show that the City of Atlanta had the largest increase at 43,622 (a 10.4% increase) and, as expected, also had the largest 2015 population at 463,878. The population in cities can change in three different ways, unlike [...]
