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Demographic change

How population and median income shift across states and congressional districts over time. We compare two Census ACS 5-year endpoints rather than reading a single snapshot as destiny. Figures are American Community Survey estimates (with margins of error) — read them with the caveats below. Source: Census ACS.

Change over time

Awaiting a second sourced ACS endpoint.

Change over time needs a second sourced ACS endpoint.

We compare two ACS 5-year releases and don't publish placeholder numbers. The pipeline supports a multi-year bake (acs.run_years); once a second endpoint is baked and exported, per-state and per-district deltas appear here automatically. The current sourced snapshot is below.

Current snapshot

2022 ACS 5-year. Population and median household income.

334,369,975
Total population (states)
$77,800
Pop-weighted median income

By congressional district

72-98
Most populous district
3,272,382
New Hampshire-ZZ
Least populous district
0
California-17
Highest median income
$168,712
72-98
Lowest median income
$24,002
Population and median household income by state
StatePopulationMedian income
California 39,356,104 $95,108
Texas 29,243,342 $74,799
Florida 21,634,529 $68,272
New York 19,994,379 $86,492
Pennsylvania 12,989,208 $75,094
Illinois 12,757,634 $80,331
Ohio 11,774,683 $67,478
Georgia 10,722,325 $73,020
North Carolina 10,470,214 $67,344
Michigan 10,057,921 $69,512
New Jersey 9,249,063 $98,886
Virginia 8,624,511 $94,672
Washington 7,688,549 $92,694
Arizona 7,172,282 $73,512
Massachusetts 6,984,205 $97,862
Tennessee 6,923,772 $64,838
Indiana 6,784,403 $67,417
Maryland 6,161,707 $101,236
Missouri 6,154,422 $67,308
Wisconsin 5,882,128 $73,012
Colorado 5,770,790 $88,696
Minnesota 5,695,292 $85,917
South Carolina 5,142,750 $64,304
Alabama 5,028,092 $60,180
Louisiana 4,640,546 $58,491
Kentucky 4,502,935 $60,858
Oregon 4,229,374 $77,496
Oklahoma 3,970,497 $61,830
Connecticut 3,611,317 $91,326
Utah 3,283,809 $86,943
72 3,272,382 $24,002
Iowa 3,188,836 $70,763
Nevada 3,104,817 $71,882
Arkansas 3,018,669 $56,719
Mississippi 2,958,846 $53,318
Kansas 2,935,922 $71,204
New Mexico 2,112,463 $58,666
Nebraska 1,958,939 $72,330
Idaho 1,854,109 $70,204
West Virginia 1,792,967 $55,242
Hawaii 1,450,589 $94,579
New Hampshire 1,379,610 $90,845
Maine 1,366,949 $69,469
Rhode Island 1,094,250 $81,185
Montana 1,091,840 $66,327
Delaware 993,635 $79,325
South Dakota 890,342 $69,457
North Dakota 776,874 $73,959
Alaska 734,821 $86,370
District of Columbia 670,587 $101,722
Vermont 643,816 $74,014
Wyoming 577,929 $72,495

Caveats

Ecological fallacy. These are area aggregates. A district's totals describe the district, not the people in it — you cannot infer any individual's income, behavior, or vote from a district-level figure, and a shift in an area's average can happen with no one changing (people move in and out). Don't read a demographic trend as a statement about how a group votes.

Margins of error. Every ACS figure is a survey estimate with a margin of error, not an exact count. Small differences — especially small district-to-district or year-to-year changes — can fall within the margin and not be statistically meaningful. Treat small deltas as noise.

Overlapping 5-year windows & boundary changes. ACS 5-year releases pool five years of responses, so consecutive releases overlap and change is smoothed and lagged. District boundaries also change (2020 redistricting): comparing a code like 48-07 across a redistricting compares two different geographies. We limit district comparisons to endpoints on the same boundaries; state totals are boundary-stable.

Estimates are American Community Survey 5-year data. Source and freshness: Data sources.