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Free CDN (content delivery network) serving US Census shapefiles?
The U.S. Census Bureau is relied upon across the country for economics, demographics, research, and planning purposes. It builds itself to be used in many ways. It already handles a high load of ...
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What does a "null" result mean in the Census ACS API?
Table B25105 is not available at the Block Group level. The appendices show which tables are available at the block group level.
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Yearly population projections for the fifty American states till 2050
US Census has population projections through 2060, and is also the data behind both of the sources you already found.
State population projections (except for Vermont) list from the Census.
Not ...
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US Population/Housing Data?
The Census API is pretty good and should have what you're looking for. If you want only recent data, you can use the ACS to get 2014 data. If you want more historical data, the 1990, 2000, and 2010 ...
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US Population/Housing Data?
If you are interested in using shapefile data and have access to QGIS or ArcGIS, this geodatabase contains geographic, demographic, and economic data for Places or "Cities" from the 2010 to 2014 ACS (...
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Mapping PUMA Codes to TIGER/line shapefiles
There are 4 variables you are leaving out of the shapefile that was imported to R.
STATEFP10 is the 2-digit FIPS code for the state.
PUMACE10 is the 5-digit FIPS code for the 2010 PUMA within a state....
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How to work around or resolve a Census.gov IP-Blacklist?
This may be an innocuous software error with thresholds being reached, but nonetheless it's still a serious issue of your rights as a citizen to use government services. Did you ever receive a ...
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Search population, zipcode by city from US census API
First a note. The US Census API provides data on zip code tabulation areas, not zip codes:
ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) are statistical entities developed by the United States Census Bureau ...
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Is there an American Community Survey dataset that provides individual-level data at the census tract level?
To answer your first question: No, there is no open data version of the American Community Survey with PII (Personally Identifiable Information).
As for your original query, Table B17001, does ...
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What does a "null" result mean in the Census ACS API?
A null result means that the variable has been suppressed for that geography. Some variables are always suppressed for a certain level of geometry, but even if a variable is usually available for a ...
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US county-level data on population and urbanization rates 1950-2010
(After a while I have found some useful sources. I will answer my own question, so that future visitors to this site with the same question, have a starting point.)
Data 1940-1990 (from ICPSR):
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Trying to link ZIP code to core-based statistical area
I think that you can get what you want from two resources:
The R package noncensus contains a data set called zip_codes that lists the following features for each zip code:
zip. U.S. ZIP (postal) ...
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Geometries for census tracts in 2012 and 2013 ACS 5 Releases
According to the Census website, for both the 2012 and 2011 Estimate Year, Census Tract uses the 2010 Census (https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/geography-acs/geography-boundaries-by-year....
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What is the difference between Census TIGER and Gazetteer data?
I wrote to the Census and they wrote back,
The Gazetteer file you are looking at is a Cartographic Boundary Shapefile which is for small scale (limited detail) mapping projects clipped to shorelines. ...
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What is the difference between Census TIGER and Gazetteer data?
Upon closer inspection, it seems that the TIGER line zcta summary level 510 shapefile has more detail of the boundaries and the Gazetteer shapefile has simplified vertices that if I had to guess were ...
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Crosswalk between FIPS codes and Wikipedia articles about U.S. Census Places
Is this something that would be possible with Wikidata?
Yes, this is possible:
There are the FIPS 55-3 and FIPS 6-4 properties in Wikidata;
Wikidata contains information about the so-called ...
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Is there a way to get all counties in an MSA?
Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs), Metropolitan Divisions, and Combined Statistical Areas (CSAs) 2018-09
FIPS Metropolitan Area (CBSA) Codes - 2000 Census Documentation
Bonus CMS's SSA to FIPS ...
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Free CDN (content delivery network) serving US Census shapefiles?
Or https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-geodatabases.html
The census.gov tiger geodatabases have the political boundaries.
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Free CDN (content delivery network) serving US Census shapefiles?
If you are looking for the state leve boundaries, Michigan provides theirs through the MIGDL. http://gis.michigan.opendata.arcgis.com/
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API for 1990 Census geographies
The NHGIS offers an API for some of the 1990 geographies:
1990 Census Tracts
1990 Census Places
Various city and state governmental departments offer block group and block geographies. So far, I ...
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API for 1990 Census geographies
All the TIGER data that exists is listed on this page, or on the Census' FTP server. Most of it is available as shapefiles and geodatabases rather than as an API. If you really need an API, there do ...
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US Census Block Internal Points
the intptlon and intptlat fields of the census bureau's summary files contain the center of every census block nationwide. there's some pretty straightforward R code to download and import these ...
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Where is ZCTA/CBSA relationship file for 2016?
The Census Bureau does not update crosswalk files beyond the decennial remapping. Anthony Damico's suggestion of using HUD's crosswalk files, which are updated quarterly, is the best answer.
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Trying to locate US Census Shapefiles for all MSA's (Metropolitan & Micropolitan Statistical Areas)
The Census Bureau publishes shapefiles for aggregate metropolitan areas (based on county boundaries) in a couple of places. Each of these areas has a 5-digit Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA) ID and ...
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Matching 1980s address data to 1990 census geoid10?
My first thought is to use QGIS or ArcGIS and perform a spatial join.
You could use the 1990 Census Block Group shapefiles located here with your addresses/point data.
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U.S. Census CBP Employment by year at aggregate U.S. level
U.S. total CBP-based employment is available from https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/data/datasets.html. Click through each year (since 1986) and you will find a "Complete U.S. File" link to ...
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U.S. Census CBP Employment by year at aggregate U.S. level
Factfinder is notoriously bad at permalinking, which includes the link you shared in EDIT 2. You should always choose the "bookmark/save" button on a data page in FactFinder. I think maybe this is ...
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Is there an American Community Survey dataset that provides individual-level data at the census tract level?
If you are affiliated with academia, you can get to the detailed PII data through the Census Research Data Centers (https://www.census.gov/about/adrm/fsrdc/locations.html). They operate at an academic ...
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Seeking US public school serving area boundaries
There is a way...but its not a silver bullet; very time intensive and may require learning new skillsets.
You can search through data portals and collect them along the way:
Here's a search on data....
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