By Larry Felton Johnson

[This is the first installment of a series of brief articles on demographic trends in Cobb County organized into the category Cobb Courier Demographic Brief]

The U.S. Census Bureau, which frequently updates its tools and data-gathering methods, recently introduced its new and user-friendly feature, “Population Pyramids. ” This feature allows you to create useful data visualizations. You can start exploring it yourself by following this link.

The pyramid below the table compares the male and female population of Cobb County in each age segment. Note: the top segment of the pyramid is labled “85 years and older.” No matter how much I play around with the dimensions of the iframe, the label gets clipped off.

This data comes from the Census Bureau’s 5-year American Community Survey for 2022.

The data represented as a table

Here is the data represented as a table:

Here is the data represented visually