One last look at the graying of America, this time at the county level. Let's start with the extremes. The county that aged the most dramatically over the past 50 years is Sumter County in Florida. In 1970, its median age was 30. By 2020, it jumped to 67.3. The explanation is pretty straightforward: the … Continue reading Where We Are Getting Older

Let's look at other ways to visualize how America has aged in the past fifty years. At the end of the previous post, I introduced histograms based on ten-year age ranges. Here's a different view of the same data, comparing 1970 with 2020 In 1970, the red and yellow layers (ages 5-24) were the baby … Continue reading Visualizing the Graying of America