tract2000: Centers of population of US census tracts according to the...

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

Centers of population of US census tracts according to the 2000 census

Description

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

Usage

tract2000

Format

A tibble with 66,304 rows and 6 variables:

STATEFP

The two-digit GEOID of the state where the tract is located

COUNTYFP

The last three digits of the five-digit GEOID of the tract

TRACTCE

The last six digits of the eleven-digit GEOID of the tract

POPULATION

The population of the tract

LATITUDE

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

LONGITUDE

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

Details

There are 307 tracts with a POPULATION of 0 and a missing value for both LATITUDE and LONGITUDE.

Unlike county2000, tract2000 does not contain data from American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, or the US Virgin Islands.

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/tract/tract_pop.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: state2000; county2000; 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

tract2000

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