Data Visualization Across the Nation

Data Viz Newsletter

This month, learn how we're using Census Bureau data to visualize voting in the midterm elections, post-secondary education outcomes, health insurance coverage, and more.

Percentage of Voters That Used Alternative Methods of Voting by State Midterm Elections: 2014 to 2018

Behind the 2018 U.S. Midterm Election Turnout

Voter turnout went up among all voting age and major racial and ethnic groups. Fifty-three percent of the citizen voting-age population voted in 2018, the highest midterm turnout in four decades, while the 2014 election had the lowest.

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U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2018 Voting and Registration Data
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Percentage of Uninsured Under Age 65 in 2017

Health Insurance in Rural America

More people had health insurance from 2013 to 2017 across the nation, including in every state and almost every county.

This interactive graphic uses Small Area Health Insurance Estimates and highlights uninsured rates for 2017 at the county level and the change since 2013.

It also compares the percentage of people without health insurance in rural and nonrural areas and in states that expanded Medicaid and those that didn’t, as of 2017.

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Post Secondary Education Outcomes Data Visualization

New Earnings and Employment Data for College Graduates

The U.S. Census Bureau updated the Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes statistics and the PSEO visualization tool. This release includes earnings tabulations for the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.