Every person in the country, drawn as a spike of light. 4,231,836 hexagons across all 50 states and DC — 328,901,957 people in 2022 — with county lines, neighborhood tags, and a slider that grows each county to its projected 2050 population.
Start with the whole country
One national map: a 453,677-cell overview that deep-zooms into the full-resolution hexagons, state by state, city by city — right down to your neighborhood.
Free camera over the whole nation. Zoom into any metro and the fine county lines fade in; click any spike to pin the place it stands for.
Open the USA map →Every state, its own color
Each state gets its own map in its own hue — true-scale spike heights, the state’s own places labeled, all of its county lines drawn. Heights are honest: a spike twice as tall holds twice the people per hexagon.
605,788 people mapped in 2022. Largest place: Washington (605,788).
Open the map →6,674,506 people mapped in 2022. Largest place: Indianapolis city (balance) (824,158).
Open the map →4,507,869 people mapped in 2022. Largest place: Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance) (362,502).
Open the map →12,623,636 people mapped in 2022. Largest place: Philadelphia (1,459,406).
Open the map →How to explore
Drag to move. Scroll to zoom to your cursor. Middle-drag to orbit around your spot, right down to ground level. Arrow keys glide.
Every spike pins its details: the place it belongs to, its county, and how many people live in that hexagon.
All 3,144 county boundaries are drawn from U.S. Census Bureau lines — a whisper at state view, crisp as you zoom in.
Drag the year forward to project county growth under the EPA ICLUS SSP2 scenario — a scenario, not a prediction. Alaska and Hawaii hold at 2022.
About the data
Population hexagons: the Kontur Population Dataset (June 30, 2022). County boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files (cb_2023). The 2050 view applies EPA ICLUS v2.1.1 county growth ratios (SSP2 scenario) to the 2022 hexagons. Neighborhood tags on city hexagons come from Zillow neighborhood boundaries. Spike heights are true to scale within each map. Prefer the atlas’s original home page? It’s preserved here, exactly as built.