| tract2000 {USpopcenters} | R Documentation |
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