22 maps that explain America

At Business Insider, we love maps. There is no better way to convey data about people and places than with a map.

To that end, we've put together 22 maps that explain various economic, social, demographic, and linguistic aspects of the United States of America. Check them out.

Rob Wile contributed to an earlier version of this post.

This map shows jobs that are held at a much higher rate in each state than in the country as a whole.

And here are jobs that pay much more in a state than they do in the country as a whole.

America's population is always dynamic. This map shows overall population change between 2014 and 2015, and the next few maps show the various components of that change.