2012 Connecticut statewide 4-band aerial imagery

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Steve Batt

The 2012 statewide aerial imagery is now available!

http://www.cteco.uconn.edu/help/info_orthos2012.htm

Some of the basic facts:

4 bands (R,G,B,NIR)
1 foot pixel resolution
Flown in March 2012 (leaf-off)
Each tile covers 2.3 square kilometers (0.897 sq mi) and is 97.696 MB

It was paid for through a partnership between Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection (DESPP), the Connecticut Department of Transportation (DOT), and the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) along with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) providing support through project management, contracting and quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC).

The download interface allows you to download a mosaic for a whole town in JP2 format, or as individual GeoTiffs or MrSIDs. Users can also access the layer remotely through CTECO’s Map Services.

Examples:

Forested area in Ashford, Bands 1, 2, 3

Forested area in Ashford – Bands 4, 2, 1

Downtown Hartford, Bands 1, 2, 3

Downtown Hartford, Bands 4, 2, 3

May 2013 is “Older Americans Month”

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Steve Batt

Older Americans Month: May 2013

A meeting with the National Council of Senior Citizens resulted in President John F. Kennedy designating May 1963 as Senior Citizens Month, encouraging the nation to pay tribute to older people across the country. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter’s proclamation changed the name to Older Americans Month, a time to celebrate those 65 and older through ceremonies, events and public recognition.

(Click on visualization to interact with data)

Connecticut has 499,474 individuals who are 65 and older, comprising 14% of the state’s total population.

41.4 million

The number of people who were 65 and older in the United States on July 1, 2011, up from 40.3 million on April 1, 2010 (Census Day). In 2011, this group accounted for 13.3 percent of the total population.
Source: Population estimates <http://www.census.gov/popest/data/national/asrh/2011/index.html>

92.0 million

Projected population of people 65 and older in 2060. People in this age group would comprise just over one in five U.S. residents at that time. Of this number, 18.2 million would be 85 or older.
Source: Population projections <http://www.census.gov/population/projections/data/national/2012.html>

2.4 million

Projected number of baby boomers in 2060. At that time, the youngest baby boomers would be 96 years old.
Source: Population projections <http://www.census.gov/population/projections/data/national/2012.html>

2056

The year in which, for the first time, the population 65 and older would outnumber people younger than 18 in the U.S.
Source: Population projections <http://www.census.gov/population/projections/data/national/2012.html>

Nearly 17%

Projected percentage of the global population that would be 65 and older in 2050, up from 8 percent today. In 2005, Europe became the first major world region where the population 65 and older outnumbered those younger than 15. By 2050, it would be joined by Northern America (which includes Canada and the United States), Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean and Oceania (which includes Australia and New Zealand).
Source: International Data Base <http://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/informationGateway.php>

Income and Wealth

$33,118

The 2011 median income of households with householders 65 and older, not significantly different from the previous year.
Source: Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2011
<http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/p60-243.pdf>

8.7%

The percent of people 65 and older who were in poverty in 2011, statistically unchanged from 2010. There were 3.6 million seniors in poverty in 2011.
Source: Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2011
<http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/p60-243.pdf>

$170,128

Median net worth for householders 65 and older in 2010, down from $195,890 in 2005.
Source: Net Worth and Asset Ownership <http://www.census.gov/people/wealth/>

Serving Our Nation

9.2 million

Estimated number of people 65 and older who were veterans of the armed forces in 2011.
Source: 2011 American Community Survey <http://factfinder2.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/11_1YR/B21001>

Jobs

16.1%

The percentage of people 65 and older who were in the labor force in 2010, up from 12.1 percent in 1990. These older workers numbered 6.5 million in 2010, up from 3.8 million in 1990. By 2011, this rate had increased to 16.2 percent.
Source: Labor Force Participation and Work Status of People 65 and Older <http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acsbr11-09.pdf>

22.3%

The percentage of people 65 and older in Alaska in the labor force in 2011. Labor force participation rates for people 65 years and over ranged from 22.3 percent in Alaska to 12.5 percent in West Virginia.
Source: Labor Force Participation and Work Status of People 65 and Older <http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acsbr11-09.pdf>

44.3%

Among those 65 and older who worked in 2011, the percentage who worked full-time, year-round. Among states and equivalents, the District of Columbia had the highest rate, at 62.2 percent.
Source: Labor Force Participation and Work Status of People 65 and Older <http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acsbr11-09.pdf>

Education

81.1%

Proportion of people 65 and older in 2012 who had completed high school or higher education.
Source: Educational Attainment in the United States: 2012
<http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/education/data/cps/2012/tables.html>

24.3%

Percentage of the population 65 and older in 2012 who had earned a bachelor’s degree or higher.
Source: Educational Attainment in the United States: 2012
<http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/education/data/cps/2012/tables.html>

Marital Status and Living Arrangements

58%

Percentage of people 65 and older who were married in 2012.
Source: Families and Living Arrangements <http://www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2012.html>

26%

Percentage of people 65 and older in 2012 who were widowed.
Source: Families and Living Arrangements <http://www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2012.html>

Voting

70.3%

Percentage of citizens 65 and older reporting casting a ballot in the 2008 presidential election. Not statistically different from those 45 to 64 (69.2 percent), people 65 and older had the highest turnout rate of any age group.
Source: Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2008 (Table 2) <http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/p20-562.pdf>

Homeownership

80.7%

Percentage of householders 65 and older who owned their homes as of fourth quarter 2012.
Source: Current Population Survey/Housing Vacancy Survey <http://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/>

Centenarians

53,364

The number of people 100 years old and older counted by the 2010 Census.
Source: Centenarians: 2010 <http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/reports/c2010sr-03.pdf>

20.7

For every 100 centenarian women, the number of centenarian men in 2010.
Source: Centenarians: 2010 <http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/reports/c2010sr-03.pdf>

43.5%

In 2010, percentage of centenarian men who lived with others in a household, the most common living arrangement for this group. For their female counterparts, the most common living arrangement was residing in a nursing home (35.2 percent).
Source: Centenarians: 2010 <http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/reports/c2010sr-03.pdf>

3.29

Number of centenarians per 10,000 people in North Dakota in 2010. North Dakota was the only state with more than three centenarians per 10,000 people.
Source: Centenarians: 2010 <http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/reports/c2010sr-03.pdf>

States and Counties

17.6%

Percentage of Florida’s population 65 and older in 2011 — which led all states.
Source: Population estimates <http://www.census.gov/popest/data/national/asrh/2011/index.html>

45.5%

Percentage of the population of Sumter County, Fla., that was 65 or older in 2011, which led all of the nation’s counties.
Source: Population estimates <http://www.census.gov/popest/data/national/asrh/2011/index.html>

CT Geofocus Newsletter

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Steve Batt

The newest issue of the CT Geofocus newsletter is available now!

Brought to you by the CT GIS User to User Network and the CT GIS Council’s Education and Outreach Working group.

See past newsletters and how to submit your work here: http://ctgis.uconn.edu/resources/newsletter.htm.

Also check out the new and improved CT GIS User to User Network website at: http://ctgis.uconn.edu

If you’d like to submit something for the next issue, the deadline is Friday May 31st.

The foreign born population in the US and Connecticut

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Steve Batt

According to the Census Bureau, America’s foreign born population has undergone dramatic changes in size, origins and geographic distribution within the past 50 years. This infographic created by the Census Bureau depicts some of the major trends and statistics. As just one example: in 1960, 75% of foreign born individuals in the US were from Europe; but in 2010 only 12% were from Europe, while 53% were from Latin America and 28% were from Asia.

Here’s a snippet:

So, who is emigrating from Asia to the United States? In 1960 only 0.5 million people immigrated to the US from Asia, but by 2000 it had risen to 8.2 million, and in 2011 that number had reached 11.6 million, according to the ACS report linked to above.

Here in Connecticut, the 2007-2011 ACS data from American FactFinder shows that the total population was 3,558,172 with foreign-born individuals (both citizens and non-citizens) numbering 474,139 (+/- 5,979); thus comprising between 13.2% and 13.5% of the total population. By comparison, in 1960 the US Census reported that the total population of Connecticut was 2,535,234 and that 38.7% of that total (982,143) was foreign born with a majority (237,146) of individuals from Italy. The following visualization shows countries where foreign-born individuals emigrated from in 1960 that had numbers of emigrants higher than 20,000 individuals. Click the visualization to interact more with the data.

The other countries or areas that the Census recorded individuals emigrating from include: Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Finland, Yugoslavia, Romania, Greece, Portugal, Asia and Mexico. There were also categories for Other and Unknown. Both Asia and Mexico now comprise higher emigration rates; but in 1960, only 645 people from Mexico came to Connecticut, and 11,786 came from Asia. The ACS 2007-2011 estimates for foreign born place of birth show that by 2011 there were 105,365 emigrants from Asia and 25,743 from Mexico. The emigration pattern has certainly changed in Connecticut since the 1960s, see below visualization for the countries in 2011 from which more than 20,000 people emigrated (including those with a MOE that causes the estimate to exceed 20,000); and unlike the 1960s, there are very few countries from which 20,000 or more people emigrated.The one country with the single highest number of foreign-born individuals in CT was Jamaica, with 34,742 individuals. In terms of regions broken down by continent, the highest number of individuals collectively came from Latin America which includes the Caribbean, Central and South America (197,224).

UNOFFICIAL Election 2012 Connecticut Results – MAGIC/CtSDC Visualizations

Posted on November 7, 2012 by

*UPDATED AT 3:04PM, NOVEMBER 12, 2012*

These are the unofficial election results for the Presidential, U.S. Senate, and U.S. Congressional races for the State of Connecticut. The results will be released on an incremental town-by-town basis, beginning after polls close at 8pm. These results are first made available by the Office of the Secretary of the State, as they are received, through their Statement of Vote website. From there, the Connecticut State Data Center will update the below maps.

The data presented here are solely the responsibility of the Connecticut State Data Center, and should not be taken as the official results of the 2012 elections. Any errors in the results as they are presented here are not a fault of the Office of the Secretary of the State.

For each of the races presented below, only the results of the two major party candidates are provided at this time. This is an experimental attempt at providing timely data via the Web, but it is still being processed manually, so the data available are limited for the sake of expediency in returning results. Geographic visualizations for the full and official results will be made available in the coming weeks. In the meantime, we would appreciate feedback on your experience with this interface.

Presidential Race 2012

Barack Obama – Joe Biden (D-Blue)
Mitt Romney – Paul Ryan (R-Red)

Senate Election 2012

Chris Murphy (D-Blue)

Linda McMahon (R-Red)

1st Congressional District Election 2012

John Larson (D-Blue)

John Decker (R-Red)

2nd Congressional District Election 2012

Joe Courtney (D-Blue)

Paul Formica (R-Red)

3rd Congressional District Election 2012

Rosa DeLauro (D-Blue)

Wayne Winsley (R-Red)

4th Congressional District Election 2012

Jim Himes (D-Blue)

Steve Obsitnik (R-Red)

5th Congressional District Election 2012

Elizabeth Esty (D-Blue)

Andrew Roraback (R-Red)

2012 Connecticut Elections

Posted on November 6, 2012 by

Connecticut polls are open for the 2012 election from 6:00 AM to 8:00 PM tomorrow. Voters in the state will be casting ballots deciding the next President of the United States, one of our two U.S. Senators, Representatives for our five Congressional Districts, along with state senators and assembly members, a number of other local offices, and on a variety of ballot measures at the town level.

For the more than 2.1 million Connecticut residents registered to vote, get a glimpse ahead of time on the full contents of the ballot you will encounter tomorrow through the Connecticut Secretary of the State (SOTS) website, selecting your town.

Tomorrow night, election results will be reported to the public through two systems of communication. First, through the SOTS Statement of Vote website, the public can access unofficial results as they are updated by the towns to the Department throughout the evening. In the coming weeks after the election, this site will also provide access to the official election results. A second reporting structure is also being partially implemented for this election, with plans for a wider implementation in future elections. The CT SOTS Election Night Reporting Election Center will provide unofficial results for Connecticut towns (that have elected to participate in this election) as the towns themselves report their districts’ results.

In two Connecticut voting districts, Bridgeport and New London, the Secretary of the State has announced that their polling places have changed due to the lingering flooding impact of Hurricane Sandy.

In Bridgeport, Longfellow School voters will go to Aquaculture School, 60 St. Stephens Rd, Bridgeport, CT 06605
In New London, Ocean Beach voters will go to Harbor School, 432 Montauk Ave, New London, CT 06320

For all other Connecticut voters, look up your registration status and polling location through the SOTS website here.

Connecticut GIS Day – Call for Presenters and Posters

Posted on October 17, 2012 by

Connecticut GIS Day is fast approaching and there is still time to submit topics for presentations and poster sessions. This is a great venue to share research that utilizes GIS tools, spatial techniques, and interactive mapping resources so if you are interested in presenting or submitting a poster forward a title and a brief biography of the presenters to Thad Dymkowski, President of the Connecticut GIS User to User Network, at TDymkowski@NewingtonCT.Govby October 22, 2012.

For those considering submitting a poster, the posters will be displayed at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford, CT for the entire month of November. Included below are additional details pertaining to GIS Day presentations and posters.

Presentations

If you are interested in doing a 15 minute presentation or a 5 minute poster talk, please contact Thad at TDymkowski@NewingtonCT.Govand provide a title and biography for the speaker.

Table Display

If you’d like to set up a table display, contact Thad at TDymkowski@NewingtonCT.Govto reserve a table.

Posters

Posters will be on display in the concourse of the Legislative Office Building for the entire month of November, beginning November 1. Maps should be minimum 24” x 36” and mounted on foam board or similar material. If you are interested in submitting a poster, please contact Thad at TDymkowski@NewingtonCT.Gov and provide the title for your poster and a brief biography of the authors of the poster.

Connecticut GIS Day will be held on Friday November 16, 2012 at the University of Connecticut Avery Point Campus in the Marine Sciences building from 9am-3pm. Additional details about GIS Day are available at: http://ctgis.uconn.edu

Census Bureau Briefs and Special Reports, September 2012

Posted on October 15, 2012 by

In the past weeks, the U.S. Census Bureau has produced several new reports based upon their continuing analysis of 2010 Decennial Census data in conjunction with other ongoing research and assessments they make of the American population and our lives. These reports, summarized below, cover a broad range of both the knowledge Census data makes possible and of the work of the Bureau.

The residential populations of the downtown centers of many of the country’s largest cities have grown at rates of ten percent or more, between 2000 and 2010. The Census Bureau arrived at this finding by considering the population living within two miles of the city hall, in relation to the overall population of the metropolitan region. This and other new analysis have been made available in the new special report, Patterns of Metropolitan and Micropolitan Population Change: 2000 to 2010.

Among micropolitan statistical areas across the country, the Torrington Connecticut micropolitan statistical area held the second highest population, with 189,927 people in 2010. And in comparison to such micropolitan areas, Torrington also had the second highest percentage of people between ages 45 through 54, at 18.2 percent.

In The Emergency and Transitional Shelter Population: 2010, a 2010 Census Special Report, the numbers tabulated refer only to the population counted at emergency and transition shelters with overnight facilities and only at the time of the Decennial Census enumeration. The emergency and transitional shelter population was counted in conjunction with counts at soup kitchens, mobile food vans, and other non-shelter outdoor locations as part of Census Bureau’s Service-Based Enumeration Operation. The total of these data, however, do not represent an accurate count of the country’s entire homeless population.

For the State of Connecticut, there were 2,244 people living in emergency and transitional shelters in 2010, of which more than two-thirds were male and nearly 18 percent were children under 18 years old.

The Census Bureau began giving the option for people to identify as belonging to more than one race in the 2000 Decennial Census. Out of the 2010 Census, therefore, has come the first comparative analysis of racial identity that includes multiple-race categories. One of the most striking findings examined in this brief, The Two or More Races Population: 2010, is that the population of people of two or more races grew significantly faster than the single race population, at rates of more than 50 percent in some geographies (compared to 9.7 percent overall U.S. population growth).

Between 2000 and 2010, the population of two or more races in Connecticut increased 23.8 percent, from 74,848 people in 2000 to 92,676 in 2010. But this change only altered the state population composition of multiple-race residents from 2.2 percent in 2000 to 2.6 percent in 2010, which matches the multiple-race population composition for the Northeast Census region in general.

The Census Bureau conducts an ongoing longitudinal study of income, demographics, and health insurance called the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), in order to obtain a representative sample of health and medical trends in the American population. For the newly released brief of the Household Economic Studies, Health Status, Health Insurance, and Medical Services Utilization: 2010, between approximately 50,000 and 65,000 respondents were interviewed regularly between 2001 and 2010. The survey collected a combination of quantitative economic, medical and demographic statistics along with self-reported evaluations of health status. Among the survey’s findings, the Census Bureau reports that the frequency of doctor visits per year has declined across the entire population throughout the study period, regardless of insurance coverage or health status.

Each year, the Census Bureau aggregates the data on financial status of state and local governments in the Annual Surveys of State & Local Government Finance. The 2010 data have recently been released, and are summarized in the report State and Local Government Finances Summary: 2010. The statistics enclosed cover both revenues and expenditures, debts and assets. For revenue, state and local governments overall saw a large increase of 51 percent from 2009 to 2010. In expenditures, education continued to be the largest overall expense across governments, as illustrated in the Census Bureau’s map below.

Connecticut GeoFocus – Fall 2012 Issue

Posted on October 4, 2012 by

The Connecticut GIS User to User Network and the Connecticut GIS Council Education and Outreach Working Group’s latest issue of GeoFocus, CT’s Quarterly Geospatial Newsletter is now available. Included below are just a few highlights from the Fall 2012 (September) issue:

New! EOC Web Viewer
Essay: GIS and Cartography
Greatest Paper Map of the US
10 Tips on Making and Effective Poster
Mapping for Flood Mitigation
Letter from Thad Dymkowski – President of the Connecticut GIS User to User Network
And more!

Check out the latest issue today!

View PDF Version of GeoFocus

Interesting in contributing to CT GeoFocus?

If you are interested in submitting articles for the next issue of GeoFocus, details are provided on page 1 of the newsletter.

Connecticut GIS Day – November 16, 2012 at UConn Avery Point Campus

Posted on October 3, 2012 by

Mark your calendars! Connecticut GIS Day 2012 – November 16, 2012

This year’s Connecticut GIS Day event is scheduled for Friday, November, 16, from 9 AM to 3 PM at the Marine Sciences Building at the University of Connecticut Avery Point Campus. The keynote speaker will be DANA TOMLIN, credited with the creation of Map Algebra! If you were lucky enough to attend the Spring NEARC event at Smith College and hear his presentation, then you already know that Dana is well worth hearing! This is also a great venue to present a poster or presentation as well as network with GIS users from state agencies, regional planning agencies, municipalities, non-profits, universities, and organizations from across the state of Connecticut. Included below are details on the call for posters, presentations, and table displays:

CALL FOR POSTERS & PRESENTATIONS

We are officially launching our call for presentations and posters for GIS Day. The presentations should discuss a GIS project, tool, custom process, or similarly themed topic. We are looking for a 15 minute presentation with 5 additional minutes for questions and answers. Posters are also sought. They must be mounted on some sort of rigid material (i.e. foam board, etc.), approximately 24” x 36” in size (slightly larger will be accepted, but no smaller). Also, NEW this year, we are looking for poster presentations (5 minutes in length) from GIS or related subject students from Connecticut Universities. If you are looking for GISP points, this could be a great way to add to your total!

CALL FOR TABLE DISPLAYS

We are asking for interested parties that wish to host a table to display information. This is open to anyone this year! We ask that your display maintain an educational theme. Show us how you use GIS in your organization or group!

If you are interested in participating or have additional questions, please feel free to Thad Dymkowski at TDymkowski@NewingtonCT.Gov