tl_2025_48_tract.shp.iso.xml eng; USA utf8 series_tl_2025_tract.shp.iso.xml dataset U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division 301-763-1128 301-763-4710 4600 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400 Washington DC 20233-7400 United States geo.geography@census.gov pointOfContact 2025-09-18 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://meta.geo.census.gov/data/existing/decennial/GEO/GPMB/TIGERline/Current_19115/tl_2025_48_tract.shp.iso.xml complex 6896 North American Datum of 1983 NAD83 2007-01-19 revision https://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/4269/gml/ NAD83 Link to Geographic Markup Language (GML) description of reference system. information resourceProvider urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4269 TIGER/Line Shapefile, Current, State, Texas, Census Tract TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2025, State, Texas, TX, Census Tract 2025 publication 2025-10 creation 2025-10 lastUpdate tl_2025_48_tract U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division 301-763-1128 301-763-4710 4600 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400 Washington DC 20233-7400 United States geo.geography@census.gov pointOfContact mapDigital This resource is a member of a series. 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) System (MTS). The MTS 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. Census tracts are small, relatively permanent statistical subdivisions of a county or equivalent entity and were defined by local participants as part of the 2020 Census Participant Statistical Areas Program. The Census Bureau delineated the census tracts in situations where no local participant existed or where all the potential participants declined to participate. The primary purpose of census tracts is to provide a stable set of geographic units for the presentation of census data and comparison back to previous decennial censuses. Census tracts generally have a population size between 1,200 and 8,000 people, with an optimum size of 4,000 people. When first delineated, census tracts were designed to be homogeneous with respect to population characteristics, economic status, and living conditions. The spatial size of census tracts varies widely depending on the density of settlement. Physical changes in street patterns caused by highway construction, new development, and so forth, may require boundary revisions. In addition, census tracts occasionally are split due to population growth, or combined because of substantial population decline. Census tract boundaries generally follow visible and identifiable features. They may follow legal boundaries such as minor civil division or incorporated place boundaries in some states and situations to allow for census tract-to-governmental unit relationships where the governmental boundaries tend to remain unchanged between censuses. State and county boundaries always are census tract boundaries in the standard Census Bureau geographic hierarchy. In a few rare instances, a census tract may consist of noncontiguous areas. These noncontiguous areas may occur where the census tracts are coextensive with all or parts of legal entities that are themselves noncontiguous. The Census Bureau releases extracts of the MAF/TIGER database in the form of TIGER/Line Shapefiles for others to use in geographic information systems (GIS) or for other geographic applications. completed U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division 301-763-1128 301-763-4710 4600 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400 Washington DC 20233-7400 United States geo.geography@census.gov pointOfContact notPlanned https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/services/TIGERweb/tigerWMS_ACS2025/MapServer/WmsServer?REQUEST=GetMap&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&LAYERS=68,69&STYLES=default,default&FORMAT=image/png+xml&BGCOLOR=0xFFFFFF&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&CRS=EPSG:4326&BBOX=+38.8810,-77.0401,+38.9008,-77.0035&WIDTH=256&HEIGHT=256 URL for the TIGERWeb Mapping Service URL State or equivalent entity Polygon Census Tract Tract None State or Equivalent Entity Texas TX 48 INCITS 38-2009[R2019]: Information Technology - Codes for the Identification of the States and Equivalent Areas within the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Insular Areas. otherRestrictions otherRestrictions Access constraints: None Use Constraints: The TIGER/Line Shapefile products are not copyrighted however TIGER/Line and Census TIGER are registered trademarks of the U.S. Census Bureau. These products are free to use in a product or publication, however acknowledgement must be given to the U.S. Census Bureau as the source. The boundary information in the TIGER/Line Shapefiles are for statistical data collection and tabulation purposes only; their depiction and designation for statistical purposes does not constitute a determination of jurisdictional authority or rights of ownership or entitlement and they are not legal land descriptions. Coordinates in the TIGER/Line shapefiles have six implied decimal places, but the positional accuracy of these coordinates is not as great as the six decimal places suggest. Series Information for Census Tract State-based TIGER/Line Shapefiles, Current 2025 publication series_tl_2025_tract U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division 301-763-1128 301-763-4710 4600 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400 Washington DC 20233-7400 United States geo.geography@census.gov pointOfContact mapDigital largerWorkCitation vector eng; USA utf8 boundaries The TIGER/Line shapefiles contain geographic data only and do not include display mapping software or statistical data. For information on how to use the TIGER/Line shapefile data with specific software package users shall contact the company that produced the software. -106.645646 -93.508039 25.837048 36.500704 publication date 2025-06 2026-10 1 Census Tracts Feature Catalog for the Census Tracts TIGER/Line Shapefiles 2025 publication U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division 301-763-1128 301-763-4710 4600 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400 Washington DC 20233-7400 United States geo.geography@census.gov pointOfContact https://meta.geo.census.gov/data/existing/decennial/GEO/GPMB/TIGERline/Current_19110/tl_2025_tract.shp.ea.iso.xml ZIP U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division 301-763-1128 301-763-4710 4600 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400 Washington DC 20233-7400 United States geo.geography@census.gov distributor The online copy of the TIGER/Line Shapefiles may be accessed without charge. https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2025/TRACT/tl_2025_48_tract.zip Shapefile Zip File tl_2025_48_tract.zip The TIGER/Line Shapefiles are the fully supported, core geographic product from the U.S. Census Bureau. They are extracts of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File/Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) System. download https://meta.geo.census.gov/data/existing/decennial/GEO/GPMB/TIGERline/Current_19110/tl_2025_tract.shp.ea.iso.xml XML tl_2025_tract.shp.ea.iso.xml Entity and attribute file download https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/tigerWMS_Current/MapServer https://www.ogc.org/standards/wms TIGERweb/tigerWMS_Current (MapServer) The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) Web Map Service interface standard (WMS) provides a simple HTTP interface for requesting geo-registered map images from our geospatial database. The response to the request is one or more geo-registered map images that can be displayed in a browser or WMS client application. By gaining access to our data through our WMS, users can produce maps containing TIGERweb layers combined with layers from other servers. search https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/Tracts_Blocks/MapServer https://geoservices.github.io TIGERweb/Tracts_Blocks (MapServer) The GeoServices REST Specification provides a way for Web clients to communicate with geographic information system (GIS) servers through Representational State Transfer (REST) technology. search dataset The Census Bureau performed automated tests to ensure the logical consistency and limits of the shapefiles and relationship files. These tests ensure preestablished rules of the MAF/TIGER System for data completeness and connectivity, geographic hierarchies and relationships, and standardization of attribution and codes were met. Data completeness of the TIGER/Line Shapefiles reflects the contents of the Census MAF/TIGER System at the time the shapefiles were created. Data completeness of the TIGER/Line Shapefiles reflects the contents of the Census MAF/TIGER System at the time the shapefiles were created. annually This was transformed from the Census Bureau Geospatial Product Metadata Content Standard.