I decided to look at the last plot I did, but for Oregon and its counties. Luckily, the census has growth figures by county, and the Department of Labor has a handy tool for looking at county level data
So the same graph for Oregon gives us:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAKgThT__5jj-OKSqMQ6vnT1bGDZtMeqP9_kt1-lu-QTj9-_wZbnHcoLl4kv91afXdoLOH500E3kgACO862E0bWe4dxfqlkuO991oiFEpz5eKlAgx9JJpF2OgUCxB9z8Nb-B4R3usYgW33/s320/Oregonunemploymentversusgrowth.png)
Another problem with this, as I have said for my Oregon diagrams before, is that bit all Oregon counties are equal in population. Especially noticeable in this, with Harney County, population 8,000, just sitting down there in the corner. I am tempted to do this graph with, for example, only the 10 or 15 most populous counties, and see what results I get from that.
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