Sunday, January 16, 2011

City Victim, Country Victim

There was some discussion earlier about urban/rural guns/murders, so I went poking around. I don't think anything definitive emerges from these pretty pictures, which I made at nationalatlas.gov, but have fun gazing at them. This is "percent of population affected by murders" in 2007 by county, with darker colors meaning more murders. Gray means no data. Murders doesn't equal gun murders, of course, though I'd guess they're pretty correlated.