Retiring Guy's Digest: Population loss in North Dakota: Bottineau County

Sunday, August 4, 2019

Population loss in North Dakota: Bottineau County

It all started here.

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

Source: Wikipedia (Bottineau County, Bottineau)

Bottineau is the county seat of Bottineau County.

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

Source: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts

Percentage of population 25 and older with a bachelor's degree:

21.9% - Bottineau County
28.9% - North Dakota
30.9% - U.S.

Percentage of population 65 and older:

23.8% - Bottineau County
15.3% - North Dakota
15.6% - U.S.

The last time Bottineau County voted Democratic in a presidential election was 1964. Trump won 71.4% of the vote in 2016.

Source: Bottineau County Public Library

Related reading:
The Downside of the Boom. (The New York Times, 11/24/2014)

Without engaging in any data analysis, the farmers in Antler were suspicious of the spill estimates because they were based on self-reporting by the industry. “You take the word of the operators? That’s your first mistake,” one man said, to laughter. They remarked that their own spills were often drastically underestimated on the state’s spills website.

Indeed, The Times found scores of cases on that website where the release of pollutants was not just undercounted but marked as zero. One supposedly zero-volume wastewater spill in Bottineau County last year required the removal of 600 dump-truck loads of contaminated soil.