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• People: Demographic data from the American Community Survey (ACS), including age, race and ethnicity, migration and immigration, education, household size, and family composition.

• Jobs: Economic data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and other sources, including information on employment trends, unemployment, and industrial composition of employment from the ACS.

• County classifications: Categorical variables including the rural-urban continuum codes, economic dependence codes, persistent poverty, persistent child poverty, population loss, onshore oil/natural gas counties, and other ERS county typology codes.

• Income: Data on median household income, per capita income, and poverty (including child poverty).

• Veterans: Data on veterans, including service period, education, unemployment, income, and other demographic characteristics.

What can users do with the atlas?

• View county-level maps for socioeconomic indicators.

• View the entire country or zoom into specific regions, States, or county areas.

• For any county, view a pop-up window showing data for the indicators in the broad category for that county, with the option to download the selection.

• Print a version of the map or save the image in a graphics-file format that may be added to a document or presentation.

• Download a spreadsheet or CSV files containing all the data items for all U.S. counties.