An American Mosaic: Interactive map of U.S. ancestry census data

An American Mosaic (interactive map of ancestry census data)

The New York Times built an interactive map of U.S. ancestry from 2019-2024 American Community Survey data. Tap any place to see the blend of European, Asian, African, Native American, Middle Eastern or North African, and Mexican, Central or South American ancestries. People can list multiple ancestries, so percentages may not add to 100.

This map shows how people in the United States identify their ancestry or family origin.
  1. rafram

    Another day, another (admittedly very cool) NYT map that uses OSM data in its basemap without credit :'(

  2. fusslo

    out of curiosity I overlaid this map with the zillow map of my city. It seems to be a good predictor for number of homes for sale

    I suppose that shouldn't be surprising, but it was to me

  3. TMWNN

    The biggest migration in history is the 10% of Mexico that has moved to the US since 1970. <https://np.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1trqnn8/hei...>

    As of 2024, 11 million Mexican-born people live in the US <https://ourworldindata.org/where-do-migrants-live-and-where-...>.

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