Link to this map on Google Drive
I have created a map that shows the percent of females in every county in the United States. As I analyzed the map I noticed that that there was a high percentage of women in southeastern United States and up the east coast. The highest percentage of women in one given county is 56.8% . One could conclude that women and men are almost equally distributed throughout most of these counties. In some cases men dominate leaving women at a startling 27.9%. This occurrence takes place mostly in the western region of the United States, including California, Nevada, Washington, and Idaho.
More women are living in the southeastern region of the United states. A reason for this could be that women outlive men and most retired citizens move to that area because of the climate. The east coast has a higher overall percentage of women than the west. This might be due to more job opportunities, and denser populations.
With more women living in the eastern half of the United States might cause an additional increase in population, assuming those women would reproduce. Women don’t have a very high percentage for political statistics but with time and growth in overall percentage of women, one could assume that women may hold more political offices than in the west. With the population growth in elderly adults that will come from the next generation one could predict the building of nursing homes and retirement facilities, especially seen as women outlive men.
