America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers

94.7M Americans Live in Coastline Regions

The 2019 hurricane season has begun and, once again, the number of people living in some of the most vulnerable coastline regions is growing.

About 94.7 million people, or about 29.1% of the total U.S. population, lived in coastline counties in 2017, a 15.3% growth since 2000.

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The first hurricane of the season, Barry, made landfall Saturday in Louisiana as a Category 1 and was later downgraded to a tropical storm, causing widespread flooding and power outages along the Gulf Coast. 

• Interactive: On the Map for Emergency Management
• Infographic: Coastline America

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