Sometimes our Top 10 lists come with a story. This one comes with an arrest.
Counties with Highest Percent of Foreign Residents
Alaska’s Aleutians East Borough has the highest concentration of foreign-born people, at 63% of all people being born in another country.
Least Populous Counties During 2005-2009
Kalawao is the least populous, and oldest age county in the nation. Until 1969, Kalawao was the site of the Kalaupapa Settlement, a leper colony.
Counties with highest and lowest obesity rates, 2007
There’s a concentration of obese adults in the Deep South. Conversely, there’s a dearth of obesity in the Mountain West.
Counties with Hispanic households in poverty in 2000
Usually when we have these top-ten lists, we look at the percentages, since regardless of the indicator, raw numbers often just give us the most populous areas. The most populous counties, for instance, are Los Angeles, CA; Cook (Chicago), IL; Harris (Houston), TX; Maricopa (Phoenix), AZ; etc., and when these show up as the top […]
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