citypop {usmap}

Most populous city in each state (2010)

Description

The most populous city in each US state, as of the 2010 US Census.

The data is formatted for transforming with usmap_transform(). Once the longitude and latitude is transformed, it can be added to plot_usmap() using ggplot2::ggplot() layers.

Usage

data(citypop)

Format

A data frame with 51 rows and 5 variables.

Details

• lon The longitude of the most populous city.

• lat The latitude of the most populous city.

• state The name of the state containing the city.

• abbr The abbreviation of the state containing the city.

• most_populous_city The name of the city.

• city_pop The population of the city.

References

• https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/decade.2010.html