Project Description
The U.S. Census Grids provide raster data sets that include not only population and housing counts, but a wide variety of socioeconomic characteristics. These gridded data sets transform irregularly shaped census block and block group boundaries into a regular surface – a raster grid – for faster and easier analysis. Data sets are currently available for the year 2000.
Project Highlights
Type of Data Available
- Individuals - age distribution, race, ethnicity, income, poverty, educational level, and immigrant status
- Households - household size, one-person households, female-headed households with children under 18, and linguistically isolated households.
- Housing units - occupancy, seasonal usage, occupied housing units without a vehicle, and year of construction.
Spatial Resolution
- Data sets for the United States and Puerto Rico are available at a resolution of 30 arc-seconds or approximately 1 kilometer.
- Data sets for 50 metropolitan statistical areas with a population of one million or more are available at a resolution of 7.5 arc-seconds or approximately 250 meters.
Map Collection
- View and download maps showing the spatial distribution of different socioeconomic characteristics for regions and cities within the United States and Puerto Rico
