TIGER: US Census Tracts Demographic - Profile 1

TIGER/2010/Tracts_DP1
Dataset Availability
2010-01-01T00:00:00Z–2010-01-02T00:00:00Z
Dataset Provider
Earth Engine Snippet
FeatureCollection
ee.FeatureCollection("TIGER/2010/Tracts_DP1")
FeatureView
ui.Map.FeatureViewLayer("TIGER/2010/Tracts_DP1_FeatureView")
Tags
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demographic
human
social

Description

The United States Census Bureau regularly releases a geodatabase named TIGER. This table contains the 2010 census Demographic Profile 1 values aggregated by census tract. Tract areas vary tremendously, but in urban areas are roughly equivalent to a neighborhood. There are about 74,000 polygon features covering the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Island areas.

For full technical details on all TIGER 2010 products, see the TIGER technical documentation.

Each tract also includes attributes with sums of the DP1 population measurements that intersect the boundary. The columns have the same name as the shortname column in the DP1 lookup table.

Table Schema

Table Schema

Name Type Description
aland10 DOUBLE

Land area
awater10 DOUBLE

Water area
geoid10 STRING

Census tract identifier: a concatenation of state FIPS code, county FIPS code, and census tract code
intptlat10 STRING

Latitude of the internal point
intptlon10 STRING

Longitude of the internal point
namelsad10 STRING

Legal/statistical area description and the census tract name
shape_area DOUBLE

Area in square degrees
shape_leng DOUBLE

Perimeter in degrees

Terms of Use

Terms of Use

The U.S. Census Bureau offers some of its public data in machine-readable format via an Application Programming Interface (API). All of the content, documentation, code and related materials made available to you through the API are subject to these terms and conditions.

Citations

Citations:

  • For the creation of any reports, publications, new data sets, derived products, or services resulting from the data set, users should cite the US Census Bureau.

Explore with Earth Engine

Code Editor (JavaScript)

var dataset = ee.FeatureCollection('TIGER/2010/Tracts_DP1');
var visParams = {
  min: 0,
  max: 4000,
  opacity: 0.8,
};

// Turn the strings into numbers
dataset = dataset.map(function (f) {
  return f.set('shape_area', ee.Number.parse(f.get('dp0010001')));
});

Map.setCenter(-103.882, 43.036, 8);
var image = ee.Image().float().paint(dataset, 'dp0010001');

Map.addLayer(image, visParams, 'TIGER/2010/Tracts_DP1');
Map.addLayer(dataset, null, 'for Inspector', false);
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Visualize as a FeatureView

A FeatureView is a view-only, accelerated representation of a FeatureCollection. For more details, visit the FeatureView documentation.

Code Editor (JavaScript)

var fvLayer = ui.Map.FeatureViewLayer('TIGER/2010/Tracts_DP1_FeatureView');

var visParams = {
  opacity: 0.8,
  color: {
    property: 'dp0010001',
    mode: 'linear',
    palette: ['black', 'white'],
    min: 0,
    max: 4000
  }
};

fvLayer.setVisParams(visParams);
fvLayer.setName('US census tracts demographics');

Map.setCenter(-103.882, 43.036, 8);
Map.add(fvLayer);
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The United States Census Bureau regularly releases a geodatabase named TIGER. This table contains the 2010 census Demographic Profile 1 values aggregated by census tract. Tract areas vary tremendously, but in urban areas are roughly equivalent to a neighborhood. There are about 74,000 polygon features covering the United States, the …
TIGER/2010/Tracts_DP1, census,infrastructure-boundaries,table,tiger,us
2010-01-01T00:00:00Z/2010-01-02T00:00:00Z
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