state2000: Centers of population of US states according to the 2000...

In NikKrieger/USpopcenters: United States Centers of Population (Centroids)

Centers of population of US states according to the 2000 census

Description

A data set of the latitude and longitude coordinates of the centers of population (centroids) of the US states plus the District of Columbia. Populations according to the 2000 decennial census are also included.

Usage

state2000

Format

A tibble with 51 rows and 5 columns

STATEFP

The two-digit GEOID of the state

STNAME

The name of the state

POPULATION

The population of the state

LATITUDE

The latitude coordinate of the center of population (centroid) of the state (positive is north; negative is south)

LONGITUDE

The longitude coordinate of the center of population (centroid) of the state (positive is east; negative is west)

Details

Note that this dataset does not contain Puerto Rico data, unlike state2010 and state2020.

Furthermore, unlike county2000, state2000 does not contain data from Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, or the US Virgin Islands.

The source data file on the US census website has different column names than what its data dictionary reports. The data dictionary's version of the column names were used, since they are consistent with the majority of the other data files and data dictionaries on the census website.

US census data terms of service

https://www.census.gov/data/developers/about/terms-of-service.html

Source

The source file is at https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/reference/cenpop2000/statecenters.txt. The 2000 center of population info page is at https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/centers-population.2000.html

See Also

Other 2000 census centers of population: county2000; tract2000; block_group2000

2010 census centers of population: state2010; county2010; tract2010; block_group2010; US_mean_center2010; US_median_center2010

2020 census centers of population: state2020; county2020; tract2020; block_group2020; US_mean_center2020; US_median_center2020

Examples

state2000

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