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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.
ZCTAs or ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the census equivalent of ZIP codes used for statistical purposes. The reason why regular ZIP codes are not used is because they are defined by routes rather than geographic boundaries. Thus, they have the tendency to overlap and otherwise create difficulties.
(Formerly FIPS county codes). Table. INCITS County or equivalent State or equivalent ... Aleutians West Census Area [b] 02020 Anchorage, Municipality of [a] [c] 02050
The United States Census Bureau refers to the latter as county equivalents. The 237 county equivalents include the District of Columbia and 100 equivalents in U.S. territories (such as those in Puerto Rico). The large majority of counties and equivalents were organized by 1970.
The United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has defined 925 core-based statistical areas (CBSAs) for the United States and 10 for Puerto Rico. [1] The OMB defines a core-based statistical area as one or more adjacent counties or county equivalents that have at least one urban core area of at least 10,000 population, plus adjacent territory that has a high degree of social and ...
A census-designated place (CDP) [1] [2] [3] is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, [4] such as self-governing cities, towns, and villages, for the purposes of gathering and correlating statistical data.
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.
The largest counties and county-equivalents are organized boroughs and the census areas of Alaska with the top two being Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area (145,504.79 sq mi or 376,855.7 km 2) and North Slope Borough (88,695.41 sq mi or 229,720.1 km 2).