Radical Cartography on density

Courtesy AustinContrarian  Tue, 07/29/2008 - 11:54am

A very nice chart depicting the distribution of U.S. census tracts by density.  Just eyeballing it, it looks like most Americans live at a density of 2,500+ ppsm. (The area under the curve represents total U.S. population.)



 

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