Weighted Population of Albany County Towns
Download the Scalable Vector Graphic of the Weighted Population of Albany County Towns.
About SVGZ Graphic: Weighted Population of Albany County Towns ....
This map shows the town center (red) versus the weighted-center of population (blue). For example, Albany's Center of Population is farther east then the center of the city, while Bethlehem's Center of Population is north of center of the town.
I was interested in figuring out how to calculate this out after reading about the Census Bureau's Center of Population (https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/centers-population.html)
It's not difficult -- literally it's just a population weighted average of x and y coordinates of all the the tabulation blocks in each town.
More about Albany County...
Albany County (/ˈɔːlbəniː/ awl-bə-nee) is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, and is part of the Albany-Schenectady-Troy Metropolitan Statistical Area. The name is from the title of the Duke of York and Albany, who became James II of England (James VII of Scotland). As of the 2010 census, the population was 304,204.[1] As originally established, Albany County had an indefinite amount of land, but has only 530 square miles (1,400 km2) as of March 3, 1888. The county seat is Albany, the state capital.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albany_County,_New_York
