Cobb by the Numbers

Cobb by the Numbers April 29, 2022

Kennesaw GA in the 1950 census: How to get at and start using the recently released individual records

Here’s a guide to using the recently released 1950 individual census records for Kennesaw, Georgia. These records are useful in both genealogy and historical research, in determining where individuals lived…

Cobb by the Numbers April 24, 2022

Powder Springs in the 1950 census: How to get at and start using the recently released individual records

Here’s a guide to using the recently released 1950 individual census records for Powder Springs, Georgia. These records are useful in both genealogy and historical research, in determining where individuals…

Cobb by the Numbers April 11, 2022

Marietta GA in the 1950 census: How to get at and start using the recently released individual records

Here’s a guide to using the recently released 1950 individual census records for Marietta, Georgia. These records are useful in both genealogy and historical research, in determining where individuals lived…

Cobb by the Numbers April 10, 2022

Smyrna in the 1950 census, how to get at and start using the recently released records

Here’s a guide to using the recently release 1950 individual census records for Smyrna. In a previous Cobb by the Numbers we looked at the release of the complete individual…

a map of the center of Mableton from 1950

Cobb by the Numbers April 3, 2022

Mableton in the 1950 census

In the previous Cobb by the Numbers we looked at the release of the complete individual records for the 1950 decennial census. By federal law detailed census records for individual…

a photo copy of a handscrawled 1950 census record on a standardized form census takers once used

Cobb by the Numbers April 3, 2022

Complete 1950 individual census records released: Here’s how to get to the Cobb County records

If you’ve ever done genealogical or historical research, you’re probably familiar with the handwritten photocopies of reports on individual households scrawled on standardized sheets by census takers. They are often…

a heat map of the parts of the county with the least resources to recover from disaster, explained in the text of the article

Cobb by the Numbers March 20, 2022

Community resilience and FEMA: what does it mean for Cobb County?

Cobb County is no stranger to disasters. We had major flooding in 2009, and last September we were slammed with floods that were serious enough to make residents eligible for…

Cobb by the Numbers February 28, 2022

Proposed East Cobb, Vinings cities assemble census tracts with the lowest Black population

It is about race. Specifically, the proposed cities of East Cobb and Vinings have carved out the census tracts with the lowest Black population in the county when drawing their…

a heat map of Cobb's employment by cities. The numbers are available within the text of the article

Cobb by the Numbers February 24, 2022

How do Cobb County cities (and CDPs) rank by number of jobs?

How do Cobb’s cities (and CDPs) rank in order of the number of jobs? On Tuesday we took a look at where the jobs are concentrated in Cobb County. We…

map showing the jobs concentration in Cobb County

Cobb by the Numbers February 22, 2022

Where are the jobs in Cobb County concentrated?

On Sunday we took a look at what the commuter flows are like in Cobb County: how many people live in Cobb but commute outside the county for their job,…

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