Trucks in Georgia

The least populated Georgia counties tend to have the greatest percentage of pickup trucks compared to other registered vehicles.

Can I have a duh from the audience?

I know, it seems obvious, but in playing with some other data I came across the percentage of all motor vehicles in each Georgia county that happen to be trucks. For you statistical nerds out there, the correlation between population and percentage of vehicles that are trucks is -.72. That's a strong negative correlation, meaning of course the greater the number of folks who live in a county, the fewer pickups (which are found, obviously, in more rural counties with fewer folks who live there).

The table below ranks counties by percentage of trucks among all vehicles and includes the rank in population (out of 159 counties). As you can see, the Trucking Top 10 is an imperfect mirror image of the Population Top 10.

Truck Rank	County	Population Rank
1	Echols	153
2	Appling	93
3	Atkinson	140
4	Glascock	155
5	Bacon	121
6	Irwin	130
7	Johnson	128
8	Baker	154
9	Montgomery	133
10	Wilsox	134

I could have flipped this. The #1 population county, Fulton, is #159 (last) in proportion of trucks among all registered vehicles. Indeed the four most populous counties are last when it comes to trucks.

Locally, Clarke County (Athens) is #19 in population but #153 in trucks (17.6 per 100 vehicles). Oconee is #52 in population, #132 in trucks (22.7 per 100 vehicles).

Just so you know, 35.2 percent of all vehicles in Echols are trucks, this in a county with 4,057 or so souls.