fetch_tract_data: Gets ACS data from the Census API

In ucsf-bhhi/coc-data: Point-in-time homelessness counts and covariates by CoC

Description

Requests ACS population data for all tracts in the 50 states + DC as well as spatial data for the tracts. It also converts the spatial data to the given CRS.

Usage

fetch_tract_data(year, crs)

Arguments

year	Year of the ACS data and tract boundaries to fetch
crs	The EPSG code for the tract spatial data CRS

Value

A spatial data frame:

• tract_fips: Census Tract FIPS code

• year: Year

• tract_pop: Census Tract population

• tract_poverty_pop: Census Tract population below poverty line

• tract_renting_hh: Number of renter households in Census Tract

• geometry: Census Tract border spatial data

See Also

match_tracts_to_cocs(), build_tract_crosswalk(), build_county_crosswalk()

ucsf-bhhi/coc-data documentation built on Dec. 23, 2021, 1:07 p.m.