How can I get data about my state and its counties that shows me how our population has changed since 2000 including a breakdown of the components of that change (births, deaths and net migration.)?
These data are available from a number of sources. We’ll point you to what we feel may be the easiest for most users to access.(The “best” way to access such data depends on whether you just want to see the data or whether you want to do some custom processing of the data.) Start at the Census Bureau’s Population Estimates page (http://www.census.gov/popest/estimates.php). This page has a very slick user interface that some users don’t recognize. Most of the functionality comes from using the brown menu bar across the top. You move the cursor over the “Estimates Data” entry and a drop-down menu appears. There are actually multiple ways to get to the same thing; you can start by choosing your geography type or you can select what they call “by event”, to get data for births, deaths and migration. (This is how it should work, but we discovered on a recent visit that if we started with choosing the “births and deaths” event, it would not allow us to get data for the latest year by county.
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