Posted on 09/21/2022 7:46:29 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
It’s not every day that a small hamlet in the Missouri Ozarks is in the middle of everything, but that was the case for tiny Wright County on Wednesday as officials from the nation’s capital unveiled a marker designating a spot there as the center of population in the United States.
Dignitaries from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Census Bureau, including the agency’s director, Robert Santos, celebrated the debut of the red granite marker in Hartville. With a population of 594 residents in 2020, the county seat is 14.6 miles (23.5 kilometers) from the actual spot calculated following the 2020 census.
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Worse yet, because they have admitted errors in the census that would require the marker position to be recalculated.
But as more Californians flee eastward, that data point will shift a few inches every day.
I’d hate to be the guy who has to adjust that marker every time someone moves.
Regards,
Exactly.
That would be like trying to measure the center point of a fart.
Does this “center of U.S. population” take Alaska and Hawaii into consideration? Or does it reflect only the contiguous “Lower 48?”
From the article which in freeper tradition you clearly did not read.
To calculate the center of the U.S., the Census Bureau figures out which spot would be “the balance point” if the 50 states were located on an imaginary, flat surface with weights of identical size — each representing the location of one person — placed on it.
A bunch of bureaucrats with too much time on their hands.
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