Visit healthyregions.org to learn about our recent projects and team. Here on Github you can explore all of our open source projects, and access some general data resources that we use internally.
Download Census geography files
Within the backend of our OEPS project we have an ETL pipeline that merges, tranforms, and exports data files from the US Census Bureau into a few different geospatial data formats. There are two categories of files:
- Cartographic Boundaries have simplified geometries which makes them ideal for mapping applications learn more
- We typically use the 500k scale files, though they publish other scales as well
- TIGER/Line Shapefiles have official, unsimplified geometries and should be used for geospatial analysis learn more
- We don't have these in the pipeline yet, but hope to eventually...
Feel free to download and use these for your own projects.
- GeoJSON A simple plain text format that is good for small to medium size datasets and can be used in a wide variety of web and desktop software learn more
- Shapefiles Used in scripting and desktop software for performant display and analysis learn more
- "Raw" shapefiles can be read remotely by
geopandas(which is very cool) so we include them here. Use the zipped file if you are downloading for local use.
- "Raw" shapefiles can be read remotely by
- PMTiles A "cloud-native" vector format that is very fast in the right web mapping environment learn more
Note: We don't yet have ZCTA and Place geographies for 2010.