akashic / explore
Explore every American place.
Akashic keeps a page for every place in America. Start with the one you know, or browse all 18,463 places — counties, cities, metros, congressional districts, media markets, and more — grouped by state or by geography level.
- 3,143
- counties
- 18,463
- places
- 38
- elections
- 148
- years of results
Type an address, a county, or a state — e.g., 1 Wyoming Street, Welch, WV
Browse by state
All 50 states, each colored by its 2024 presidential margin. Open a state for its full profile, or jump straight to its county, metro, congressional, or media-market index.
Northeast
9 statesNew England, the Mid-Atlantic, and the industrial corridor.South
16 statesFrom the Border South through the Deep South to Texas and the peninsula.Midwest
12 statesThe Great Lakes, the Corn Belt, and the Northern Plains.West
13 statesThe Mountain West, the desert Southwest, and the Pacific Coast.Browse by geography level
United States
1
The national rollup across all Census regions.
USA →
Census regions
4
Four state rollups: Northeast, Midwest, South, and West.
Midwest →
Census divisions
9
Nine finer Census groupings nested inside the four regions.
New England →
American Nations
13
Colin Woodard’s rival regional cultures of North America, mapped county by county.
Yankeedom →
States
50
Aggregated from constituent counties. DC is counted as a county equivalent, not a state.
Illinois →
Counties
3,143
Every county and county-equivalent — parishes, boroughs, planning regions — with the full 1876–2024 record.
Cook County →
Metro areas
918
Core-based statistical areas (382 metro + 536 micropolitan).
Chicago metro →
Combined statistical areas
180
Linked metro + micro areas — “Greater New York,” the Bay Area.
Greater New York →
Cities
6,752
Incorporated places over 25k — modern-era results + ACS demographics.
New York →
Media markets
208
Nielsen DMAs — the unit ad buyers think in.
Atlanta DMA →
Congressional districts
435
120th Congress. DC’s delegate seat is listed but not counted as a district.
IL-1 →
State senate districts
1,942
Upper chamber, every state.
State house districts
4,833
Lower chamber, every state.
Tools
Beyond browsing: compare two places, draw your own region, or ask the data a question directly.
Compare
Set any two places side by side — 2024 margins, the long arc since 1876, demographics, and how they diverged.
Canvas
Draw any region on the map and Akashic computes its rollup — constituent counties, presidential margins, and demographics.
Ask
Ask a question in plain English and get an answer grounded in the Akashic corpus, with citations back to the source pages.
Twelve plates from the atlas
Reference
How Akashic is built, what the terms mean, and where it is going.