get_tract_demographics: Get a handful of demographic variables on Census Tracts in a...

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Get a handful of demographic variables on Census Tracts in a State from the US Census Bureau as a data.frame.

Description

The data comes from the American Community Survey (ACS). The variables are total population and median household income.

Usage

get_tract_demographics(
  state_name,
  county_fips = NULL,
  endyear = 2013,
  span = 5
)

Arguments

state_name	The name of the state. See ?state.regions for proper spelling and capitalization.
county_fips	An optional vector of county fips codes within the state. Useful to set because getting data on all tracts can be slow.
endyear	The end year for the survey
span	The span of the survey

Examples

# 36061 is the FIPS code for Manhatttan (technically "New York County"), NY.
df = get_tract_demographics("new york", 36061)
df$value = df$median_hh_income
tract_choropleth(df, "new york", county_zoom = 36061) 

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