Atlanta (and Decatur) Data Geeks Rejoice! More 2010 Census Maps!

Decatur Metro | April 8, 2011

William writes in and introduces himself to his new neighbors.

I’m a data and GIS analyst (and former reporter) who just moved to the Medlock area after working for The Palm Beach Post down in South Florida for the past decade. I specialized in stuff like census and real estate data, so I thought I’d throw together some maps of my new home after seeing your post a couple of weeks ago about the NYT’s census map.

You may be wondering about the map above.  It’s straight off a new post on William’s blog showing the black Atlanta population from the 2010 census.  The darker the shading, the larger % of the group; the higher the bar, the more people from the group in the block.  Pretty interesting way to look at it.  Check out his post for similar maps showing the Atlanta Hispanic and Asian populations.

And for the more hyper-local among us, William also created an interactive, block-by-block Google Map of 2010 Census data for just DeKalb County.  Here’s a screen-shot of it, centered around Decatur.  If you want to play around with it, you’ll have to jump over to William’s blog and scroll down a bit.

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10 Responses to “Atlanta (and Decatur) Data Geeks Rejoice! More 2010 Census Maps!”

  1. Eric B says:
    April 8, 2011 at 5:51 pm

    Cool stuff! Forgot the Zombies, though.

  2. Bo says:
    April 8, 2011 at 6:05 pm

    this is great – thanks to our new neighbor for doing this. Not that it’s a surprise, but I find it sort of striking how many blocks in the core of our downtown have zero residents. For a city that seems to celebrate walkability and mixed use, does our new comp plan give us the flexibility to layer in any residential in some of those spots?

    • Joe says:
      April 8, 2011 at 6:41 pm

      I’d be willing to bet it’s because of the the Dekalb County offices & courts. (which I’d looooooooooooooooooove to have move out of the city of Decatur and rebuild w/ mixed use)

      • karass says:
        April 9, 2011 at 9:27 am

        Would that hurt our downtown businesses, especially the food establishments, if all those county workers left? Or would the increase in tax revenue from mixed use make up for it?

      • Oakhurst Gossip says:
        April 10, 2011 at 3:23 pm

        Huh?

        Getting rid of Dekalb County would be a disaster for Decatur’s economy. The size of Decatur doubles during the workday. Without the county offices and courthouse we would have completely empty office buildings and streets. No one would want to build “mixed use” in that environment.

        • Oakhurst Gossip says:
          April 10, 2011 at 3:27 pm

          To clarify, many of the private office tenants are located here (take law firms for example) because it is the county seat with the courthouse and county government offices. They would likely follow wherever they moved. As mentioned above, many restaurants rely on the lunch business primarily driven by county government being here. Other businesses downtown you probably don’t even know about are located here primarily to service county government.

  3. Decatur's Token Republican says:
    April 9, 2011 at 9:18 am

    Everyone needs to click over to William’s blog. Seriously, how can you not love a guy who titles his blog “it’s like a long-form Twitter for cat pictures.”