Population Patterns

Today in class, On November 5, we discussed more irregular shapes of population pyramids. For example, usually, there is a pattern of a Christmas tree, a box, or a cup in the population of a country. We looked at smaller groups of people, like towns, and noticed the difference in patterns. We were able to see more detail when looking at a smaller town. For example, we looked at Fort Bragg in North Carolina and we could see that there were a lot more men who were in the age range of 15-30 than any other age or gender. We discussed why this was and we came to the conclusion that it was a military base so there would be a lot of young men. Even though there are more and more women joining the military, the men were almost double the women still. We looked at other cities and discussed the differences. Some examples were colleges and retirement homes. The places with colleges had a high population of 20-24-year-olds. Retirement places like small towns in Florida have a very high population of old people and few college-age kids.