Watch this fascinating GIF that illustrates how the population center of the United States has shifted west.
The Census Bureau provides this fantastic visualization that shows how the “population center” moved from Maryland in 1790 to Missouri in 2010.Â
The current center of the country is Plato, Missouri, a town of 109 people, according to the 2010 census. That’s the fourth straight decade that the center of the U.S. population has been in the Show Me State. The current population center is roughly 872 miles from Chestertown, Maryland, the center of the population in 1790.
