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As of 2022, based on the results of the 2020 Census, there are 2,487 PUMAs. PUMAs allow the Census to publish census data for sub-state areas throughout every state. For example, the ACS publishes detailed data every year, but due to their sampling procedure only publishes data for census area that have more than 65,000 People.
TIGER includes both land features such as roads, rivers, and lakes, as well as areas such as counties, census tracts, and census blocks. Some of the geographic areas represented in TIGER are political areas, including state and federally recognized tribal lands, cities, counties, congressional districts, and school districts.
A census tract, census area, census district or meshblock [1] is a geographic region defined for the purpose of taking a census. [2] Sometimes these coincide with the limits of cities , towns or other administrative areas [ 2 ] and several tracts commonly exist within a county.
The Libre Map Project was started by Jared Benedict and around 100 additional individuals contributing money to purchase (or "liberate") a full set of 1:24K scale USGS topographic maps in Digital raster graphic form. [1] The map files were then hosted by archive.org to ensure the map data will continue to be freely available to everyone ...
ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) are statistical entities developed by the United States Census Bureau for tabulating summary statistics. These were introduced with the Census 2000 and continued with the 2010 Census and 5 year American Community Survey [1] datasets. They were updated again for the 2020 census.
The 2020 United States census was the 24th decennial United States census.Census Day, the reference day used for the census, was April 1, 2020.Other than a pilot study during the 2000 census, [1] this was the first U.S. census to offer options to respond online or by phone, in addition to the paper response form used for previous censuses.
Largely as a result of the change in criteria, the proportion of American citizens living in urban areas fell between 2010 and 2020, from 80.7% to 80.0%. [1] There were 2,644 urban areas identified by the Census Bureau for 2020. 510 had a population of 50,000 or more and are listed here.
A census block is the smallest geographic unit used by the United States Census Bureau for tabulation of 100-percent data (data collected from all houses, rather than a sample of houses). The number of blocks in the United States , including Puerto Rico and other island areas, for the 2020 Census was 8,180,866.