get_geoids: Obtain GEOIDs of areas

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Obtain GEOIDs of areas

Description

Returns a tibble or sf of GEOIDs, names, and decennial census population of user-specified locations.

Usage

get_geoids(
  geography,
  state = NULL,
  county = NULL,
  geoid = NULL,
  year = 2010,
  geometry = FALSE,
  cache_tables = TRUE,
  key = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

geography	A character string denoting the level of census geography whose GEOIDs you'd like to obtain. Must be one of c("state", "county", "tract", "block group", "block"). Note that block-level data cannot be obtained from 1990 and 2000 decennial census data due to limitations in tidycensus::get_decennial(). Whereas block-level 2010 decennial census data are available, block-level ADI and ADI-3 cannot be calculated due to the removal of the long-form questionnaire from the 2010 decennial census.
state, county, geoid, geometry, cache_tables, key	See the descriptions of the arguments in get_adi().
year	Single integer specifying the year of US Census data to use. Defaults to 2010. Based on this year, data from the most recent decennial census will be returned (specifically, ⁠year <- ⁠floor(year / 10) * 10 is run).
...	Additional arguments to be passed to tidycensus::get_decennial(). Use at your own risk.

Details

This allows users to quickly obtain all GEOIDs in a specified location at a specific level of geography without having to manually look them up somewhere else.

This facilitates calls to get_adi() that involve somewhat complicated reference areas.

Examples

## Not run: 
# Wrapped in \dontrun{} because it requires a Census API key.

# Get all tract GEOIDs for Manhattan
tracts <- get_geoids(geography = "tract", state = "New York", county = "New York")
tracts

# Get all block GEOIDs for the fifth tract on that list
get_geoids(geography = "block", geoid = tracts$GEOID[5])

## End(Not run)

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