TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2014, Series Information File for the Current Block Group State-based Shapefile
Block Groups (BGs) are clusters of blocks within the same census tract. Each census tract contains at least one BG, and BGs are
uniquely numbered within census tracts. BGs have a valid code range of 0 through 9. BGs have the same first digit of their 4-digit census block
number from the same decennial census. For example, tabulation blocks numbered 3001, 3002, 3003,.., 3999 within census tract 1210.02 are also within
BG 3 within that census tract. BGs coded 0 are intended to only include water area, no land area, and they are generally in territorial seas, coastal
water, and Great Lakes water areas. Block groups generally contain between 600 and 3,000 people. A BG usually covers a contiguous area but never
crosses county or census tract boundaries. They may, however, cross the boundaries of other geographic entities like county subdivisions, places,
urban areas, voting districts, congressional districts, and American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian areas. The BG boundaries in this
release are those that were delineated as part of the Census Bureau's Participant Statistical Areas Program (PSAP) for the 2010 Census.
Resources
4 resources available
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Folder for the 2014 Current Block Group State-based Shapefiles
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TIGER/Line® Shapefiles 2014 Technical Documentation
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More information on TIGER\Line files
TEXT/HTML -
Feature Catalog for the 2014 Current Place Division National Shapefile
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| accessLevel | non-public |
| contactPoint |
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| description | Block Groups (BGs) are clusters of blocks within the same census tract. Each census tract contains at least one BG, and BGs are uniquely numbered within census tracts. BGs have a valid code range of 0 through 9. BGs have the same first digit of their 4-digit census block number from the same decennial census. For example, tabulation blocks numbered 3001, 3002, 3003,.., 3999 within census tract 1210.02 are also within BG 3 within that census tract. BGs coded 0 are intended to only include water area, no land area, and they are generally in territorial seas, coastal water, and Great Lakes water areas. Block groups generally contain between 600 and 3,000 people. A BG usually covers a contiguous area but never crosses county or census tract boundaries. They may, however, cross the boundaries of other geographic entities like county subdivisions, places, urban areas, voting districts, congressional districts, and American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian areas. The BG boundaries in this release are those that were delineated as part of the Census Bureau's Participant Statistical Areas Program (PSAP) for the 2010 Census. |
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| identifier | https://meta.geo.census.gov/data/existing/decennial/GEO/GPMB/TIGERline/TIGER2014/ParentFiles/SeriesCollection_tl_2014_bg.shp.iso.xml |
| isPartOf | https://meta.geo.census.gov/data/existing/decennial/GEO/GPMB/TIGERline/TIGER2014/ParentFiles/SeriesCollection_tl_2014_bg.shp.iso.xml |
| issued | 2014-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| keyword |
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"Boundaries",
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| license | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| modified | 2014-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| publisher |
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| spatial | 179.859681,-14.601813,-179.231086,71.441059 |
| temporal | 2013-06-01T00:00:00+00:00/2014-05-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| title | TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2014, Series Information File for the Current Block Group State-based Shapefile |
