Today’s graphic: 4.5% of U.S. counties contain more than 50% of the population.
As shown, the 142 most populous counties contain 165,858,193 people. The remaining 3,001 counties contain 165,591,088 people. (Source: 2020 U.S. Census)
Note that the mapmaker’s methodology appears to have been simply based on the ranking of county populations versus the national average. It was not based on “population per square mile” but rather the population per county. Hence some geographically large counties such as in Arizona and southeastern California appear more heavily populated. – JWR
(Graphic courtesy of Reddit.)
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