This is the link to my map on Docks
People 65 and older you would think all move to Florida and live on their porch reading all day but, according to the census demographic mapper shows that there is many elders living in the Great Plains area. Although there is a good amount in Florida the Great Plains is dominated by elders and also North and Northwest of Wyoming, Nevada, and Utah. To the East and Southeast of the Rust Bowl has many elders. One other pattern there was that the elders stayed away from big cities like LA, Denver, and Chicago.
The reason that there are more elders in the Great Plains regions is because that is a big area of land with no big cities that is not as crowded as metropolitan areas. There is a cluster of elders on the coasts of Florida because the weather is nicer and people migrate to the coasts because the life is easier with the weather and no snow to shovel or as many leaves to pick up.
In the Great Plains region there is a lower number of jobs in the area due to the amount of people that are at the retirement age. More of the households in the area are home to people of retired age so those houses cannot be filled with a family with two parents that could be boosting the economy with their hard work. In this region there may be not as many overcrowded schools or as many schools for that matter. The challenges are that there are more nursing homes and more jobs in the specialised care field in that region.
