JULY 25, 2024 — The U.S. Census Bureau, in collaboration with Opportunity Insights, today released new data on changes in mobility by county, birth cohort (1978-1992), race, class (parental income) and sex, as well as a new interactive module in the Opportunity Atlas. “Module 2: County & Metro Mobility Trends” includes an additional decade of data and allows users to explore mobility trends in their county to better understand changes over time and within places.

In 2018, in collaboration with Opportunity Insights, the Census Bureau constructed and released the Opportunity Atlas, a comprehensive census tract-level dataset of children’s outcomes in adulthood using data covering nearly the entire U.S. population. For each tract, it provides estimates for children’s outcomes in adulthood such as earnings distributions and incarceration rates by parental income, race/ethnicity and sex. These estimates allow the public to trace the roots of outcomes, such as poverty and incarceration, to the neighborhoods in which children grew up. “Module 1: Neighborhood Mobility Outcomes,” the initial data release, focused on adult outcomes of children born between 1978-1983 at the tract level.

To learn more about “Module 2: County & Metro Mobility Trends,” visit America Counts and Changing Opportunity: Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Economic Mobility. Visit The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility for research on the initial data release.

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