U.S. Census Grids

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Summary File 1, v1 (2010)

Purpose:
To provide gridded demographic data, including characteristics of age, race, ethnicity, and housing, for the United States and Puerto Rico for data integration.
Abstract:
The U.S. Census Grids (Summary File 1), 2010 data set contains grids of demographic and socioeconomic data from the year 2010 in ASCII and GeoTIFF formats. The grids have a resolution of 30 arc-seconds (0.0083 decimal degrees), or approximately 1 square km. The gridded variables are based on census block geography from Census 2010 TIGER/Line Files and census variables (population, households, and housing variables).
Recommended Citation(s)*:

Center for International Earth Science Information Network - CIESIN - Columbia University. 2017. U.S. Census Grids (Summary File 1), 2010. Palisades, New York: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/H40Z716C. Accessed DAY MONTH YEAR.

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Available Formats:
raster, map