The Census Bureau released block-level data for the 2020 count, so Nathan Yau put together this oldie-but-goodie view of population. Each dot represents a person — 331,449,281 of them — and is randomly placed within their block. So you get a highly granular map of population density.

Read more at Where Americans Live | FlowingData.

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