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Congressional Districts

Metadata Updated: August 3, 2024

The 118th Congressional Districts dataset reflects boundaries from January 04, 2023 from the United States Census Bureau (USCB), and the attributes are updated every Sunday from the United States House of Representatives and is part of the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)/Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD). The TIGER/Line shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line shapefile is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. Congressional districts are the 435 areas from which people are elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. This dataset also includes 9 geographies for non-voting at large delegate districts, resident commissioner districts, and congressional districts that are not defined. After the apportionment of congressional seats among the states based on census population counts, each state is responsible for establishing congressional districts for the purpose of electing representatives. Each congressional district is to be as equal in population to all other congressional districts in a state as practicable. The 118th Congress is seated from January 3, 2023 through January 3, 2025. In Connecticut, Illinois, and New Hampshire, the Redistricting Data Program (RDP) participant did not define the CDs to cover all of the state or state equivalent area. In these areas with no CDs defined, the code "ZZ" has been assigned, which is treated as a single CD for purposes of data presentation. The TIGER/Line shapefiles for the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas (American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) each contain a single record for the non-voting delegate district in these areas. The boundaries of all other congressional districts reflect information provided to the Census Bureau by the states by August 31, 2022.

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License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Date July 25, 2024
Metadata Created Date August 3, 2024
Metadata Updated Date August 3, 2024
Reference Date(s) July 1, 1995 (creation)
Frequency Of Update annually

Metadata Source

Harvested from National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD) Metadata

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Date July 25, 2024
Metadata Created Date August 3, 2024
Metadata Updated Date August 3, 2024
Reference Date(s) July 1, 1995 (creation)
Responsible Party United States Census Bureau (USCB) (Point of Contact)
Contact Email
Guid Congressional Districts
Access Constraints Access Constraints: unrestricted
Bbox East Long -67
Bbox North Lat 71.5
Bbox South Lat 18.5
Bbox West Long -171.5
Coupled Resource
Frequency Of Update annually
Harvest Object Id 7c9083b5-4d38-43eb-8511-b91622ff4706
Harvest Source Id ee45e034-47c1-4a61-a3ec-de75031e6865
Harvest Source Title National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD) Metadata
Licence This NTAD dataset is a work of the United States government as defined in 17 U.S.C. § 101 and as such are not protected by any U.S. copyrights. This work is available for unrestricted public use.
Lineage
Metadata Language eng; USA
Metadata Type geospatial
Old Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-171.5, 18.5], [-67.0, 18.5], [-67.0, 71.5], [-171.5, 71.5], [-171.5, 18.5]]]}
Progress completed
Spatial Data Service Type
Spatial Reference System
Spatial Harvester True

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