Maine’s fish and game records plotted out on one interactive map
It’s based on fish and game records kept in part by the state and further tracked by publications like The Maine Sportsman.
Check out the ratio of single men to women where you live
Single, educated men looking for love might try getting to know Kennebec County better. That’s because there are 5.2 single, college-educated women in their 30s there for every single, college-educated man in the same age group, according to a recent analysis of U.S. Census data by TIME. That’s one of the highest ratios of women […]
Find out which of Obama’s programs are being used in Maine through this open source map
The map can also be sorted to show areas of persistent poverty and where there’s promise of upward economic mobility.
The most common job held by immigrants in Maine is college professor
Agricultural worker is the most cited job in the Pacific Northwest and California. In the farmland of Nebraska and Iowa, it’s butcher.
See exactly how much of Maine is completely uninhabited
If you didn’t know already, the Maine Office of GIS is a gold mine of digital information about the state. One of its latest projects was mapping every single address in the state, in order to help first responders have accurate information for responding to emergency calls. But aside from that higher calling, the data can also show us the most highly […]
Track how incomes in every state have changed over the past 85 years with this GIF map
Aside from the Great Depression and a couple of times around the middle of the 20th century, Maine’s incomes have steadily risen.
This map shows where Mainers commute outside their own counties
Are you one of them?
New Hampshire is on track to surpass Maine in population, this chart shows
And it’s all Massachusetts’ fault.
How Maine’s top vice compares to every other state’s in one interactive map
The city guide app Foursquare and custom online mapmaker MapBox have combined to track each state’s most popular vice — that is, which sinful indulgence do people in each state prefer more than people in other states. As Business Insider reported, people in New York were found to prefer picklebacks — shots of whiskey chased by […]
The federal government says Maine isn’t the most desirable place to call home
No way is Southern California better than Maine.
