AI-generated Key Takeaways
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The United States Census Bureau provides TIGER geodatabases with various geographic units like census blocks, block groups, and tracts.
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These datasets cover the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas for the years 2010 and 2020.
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Census blocks are roughly equivalent to city blocks, while block groups are clusters of blocks within the same census tract.
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Census tracts are larger areas, often resembling neighborhoods in urban settings.
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TIGER datasets are valuable resources for analyzing demographic and geographic data at different levels of granularity.
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TIGER: 2020 Tabulation (Census) Block
The United States Census Bureau regularly releases a geodatabase named TIGER. This dataset contains the 2020 census blocks, roughly equivalent to a city block. There are just over eight million polygon features covering the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Island … census city infrastructure-boundaries neighborhood table tiger -
TIGER: US Census Block Groups (BG) 2010
The United States Census Bureau regularly releases a geodatabase named TIGER. This dataset contains the 2010 census block groups, which is a cluster of blocks within the same census tract that have the same first digit of their four-digit census block number. There are just … census city infrastructure-boundaries neighborhood table tiger -
TIGER: US Census Block Groups (BG) 2020
The United States Census Bureau regularly releases a geodatabase named TIGER. This dataset contains the 2020 census block groups, which is a cluster of blocks within the same census tract that have the same first digit of their four-digit census block number. There are just … census city infrastructure-boundaries neighborhood table tiger -
TIGER: US Census Blocks
The United States Census Bureau regularly releases a geodatabase named TIGER. This dataset contains the 2010 census blocks, roughly equivalent to a city block. There are just over 11 million polygon features covering the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Island … census city infrastructure-boundaries neighborhood table tiger -
TIGER: US Census Tracts
The United States Census Bureau regularly releases a geodatabase named TIGER. This dataset contains the 2020 census tracts. Tract areas vary tremendously, but in urban areas are roughly equivalent to a neighborhood. There are just over 85000 polygon features covering the United States, the District … census city infrastructure-boundaries neighborhood table tiger