| state2000 {USpopcenters} | R Documentation |
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