Current status and recent trends in age and race of local communities surrounding Kings Mountain National Military Park

National Park Service

The data and methods underlying the analyses presented in this resource brief originate from NPScape, a landscape dynamics monitoring project of the NPS Inventory and Monitoring Program. NPScape provides landscape-scale data, methods, analyses, maps, reports and interpretations analysis areas that were within 30, 60, 90, and 120 minute travel times from at least one of the two park entrances, reachable by major roads (highways and interstates). These travel times are arbitrary but likely reflect real time commitments that are considered by residents of surrounding communities when deliberating on whether to visit the Park. For each population metric (e.g., median age), we analyzed both current status and recent trend. For current status, we focused on the results of the latest US Census (2010), and calculated average median age and racial density by census block-group across a geography that included all travel time AOAs. These results are presented below as maps in order to emphasize geographic differences across metrics. They are also summarized by AOA in a table. For recent trends, we used the 4 travel time AOAs to statistically summarize the densities by population metric for each decade (1990, 2000, and 2010). These results are presented below as plots of metric density vs. time in order to emphasize overall spatiotemporal trends. Hence, while the maps of current status are especially useful for evaluations of how local residents are distributed with respect to the Park, the plots of recent trends may be used to further consider whether and how these distributions have changed over time within the 4 major travel time categories.

Current status and recent trends in age and race of local communities surrounding Kings Mountain National Military Park

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