counties {vipor}

Census ata on US counties

Description

A dataset containing data from the US census burea

Usage

counties

Format

A data frame with 3143 rows and 8 variables:

id

GEO.id from original data

state

state in which the county is located

county

name of the county

population

population of the county

housingUnits

housing units in the county

totalArea

Area in square miles - Total area

waterArea

Area in square miles - Water area

landArea

Area in square miles - Land area

Source

http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/GCTPH1.US05PR (link now dead), system.file("data-raw", "makeCounties.R", package = "vipor")

References

https://web.archive.org/web/20150326040847/https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/cph-2-1.pdf