state2010: Centers of population of US states according to the 2010...

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

Centers of population of US states according to the 2010 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 and Puerto Rico. Populations according to the 2010 decennial census are also included.

Usage

state2010

Format

A tibble with 52 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 (and state2020) contains Puerto Rico data, unlike state2000.

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/cenpop2010/CenPop2010_Mean_ST.txt. The 2010 center of population info page is at https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/centers-population.2010.html

See Also

Other 2010 census centers of population: 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

2000 census centers of population: state2000; county2000; tract2000; block_group2000

Examples

state2010

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