DebtAtlas

DebtAtlas puts U.S. public debt in human terms. Instead of a single headline number, it shows what federal, state, and municipal debt works out to per person, state by state, on an interactive map.

[Why you built it: what question you were trying to answer, or what bothered you about how debt is usually reported.]

How it works

• Federal debt comes from the U.S. Treasury and is split evenly across every American
• State and municipal debt are added per state, so you can compare the full picture across the country
• Tap any state to see its breakdown, or switch between federal, state, and local views
• [Data sources and how often the numbers update]

What I learned

[A short note on building it: the data, the design decisions, the tools.]