get_zip_demographics: Get a handful of demographic variables from the US Census...

In arilamstein/choroplethrZip: Shapefile, Metadata and Visualization Functions for US Zip Code Tabulated Areas (ZCTAs)

Description

The data comes from the American Community Survey (ACS). The geographic unit is Zip Code Tabulated Areas (ZCTAs). The variables are: total population, percent White not Hispanic, Percent Black or African American not Hispanic, percent Asian not Hispanic, percent Hispanic all races, per-capita income, median rent and median age.

Usage

get_zip_demographics(endyear = 2013, span = 5)

Arguments

endyear	The end year for the survey
span	The span of the survey

References

The choroplethr guide to Census data: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/choroplethr/vignettes/e-mapping-us-census-data.html

A list of all ACS Surveys: http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/affhelp/jsf/pages/metadata.xhtml?lang=en&type=survey&id=survey.en.ACS_ACS

arilamstein/choroplethrZip documentation built on May 10, 2019, 1:27 p.m.