U.S. Census Tracts
Overview
This dataset contains full-resolution U.S. census tract boundaries, derived from TIGER/Line Shapefiles, the fully-supported, core geographic products from the US Census Bureau.
These include information for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Island areas (American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the United States Virgin Islands).
Attributes
name | Census tract name | string |
state_fips | Two digit state FIPS code that uniquely identifies the state | string |
county_fips | Five digit county FIPS code that uniquely identifies the county | string |
tract_id | Census tract identifier; a concatenation of state FIPS code, county FIPS code, and census tract code | string |
area_land_sqkm | Tract land area, in square kilometers | number |
area_water_sqkm | Tract water area, in square kilometers | number |
area_sqkm | Total area of census tract in square kilometers | number |
pop_total | Total population of census tract, as estimated by 2019 US Census American Community Survey (5-year estimate) | integer |
pop_density | Population density, in persons per sqkm | number |