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Title: United States Census Urbanized Areas, 2012

Contributors:

Dates

  • Coverage: 2000
  • Coverage: January 01, 2025

Publishers

  • Esri

Summary

United States Census Urbanized Areas is a polygon theme representing the Census 2000 Urbanized Areas (UA) and Urban Clusters (UC). A UA consists of contiguous, densely settled census block groups (BGs) and census blocks that meet minimum population density requirements (1000ppsm /500ppsm), along with adjacent densely settled census blocks that together encompass a population of at least 50,000 people. A UC consists of contiguous, densely settled census BGs and census blocks that meet minimum population density requirements, along with adjacent densely settled census blocks that together encompass a population of at least 2,500 people, but fewer than 50,000 people. The dataset covers the 50 States plus the District of Columbia within United States.

Subjects

  • Boundaries
  • Location
  • Society
  • United States
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-166.542186, -67.251657, 71.30682, 19.469934)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-166.542186, -67.251657, 71.30682, 19.469934)

Provider

Columbia

Rights

  • Access rights: Restricted

Citation

Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Geography Division, Environmental Systems Research Institute (Redlands, Calif.). United States Census Urbanized Areas, 2012. Esri. Polygon data. https://geodata.library.columbia.edu/catalog/sde-columbia-esri_2012_us_urban

Format

Shapefile

Languages

  • English