Saturday, August 17, 2019

Population loss in Montana: McCone County/Circle


It all started here.

Population loss as in major -- 50% or more. 

Source:  Wikipedia (McCone County, Circle)

Circle is the county seat of McCone County.

Population loss by degrees:  80-90%70-79%, 60-69%, 50-59%.

Percentage of population 25 and older with a bachelor's degree:
  • 17.4% - McCone County
  • 30.7% - Montana
  • 30.9% - U.S.
Percentage of population 65 and older:
  • 26.1% - McCone County
  • 18.7% - Montana
  • 15.6% - U.S.
% of population living in poverty:
  • 14.7% - McCone County
  • 12.5% - Montana
  • 12.3% - U.S.

The last time a Democratic candidate for president won McCone County was 1976.  Trump won 78.7% of the vote in 2016, the best-ever GOP performance.



Related reading:
Digging into the Cretaceous Period.  (The New York Times,
McCone County, Montana, a treeless, gently rolling prairieland, is sometimes called the dinosaur capital of the world. This is not because more dinosaurs lived in this part of southeastern Montana than anywhere else, but, rather, because geological circumstances favoring fossilization, then erosion, enable paleontologists to find dinosaurs there.

Other Montana population loss posts:
Sheridan County/Plentywood.  (8/17/2019)
Daniels County/Scobey.  (8/17/2019)

Other population loss series:

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