2010 New York City Census Tract Population Centers

Description:

This point layer is an extract of the 2010 Census Center of Population file that has been converted to a spatial layer and reprojected to local state plane. The population centers (aka population centroids) represent the center of a population's distribution within a census tract, which can be useful for operations like measuring the distance of a tract's population from some service or hazard. The notes field indicates whether a tract's population center falls outside the tract boundary in an adjacent tract or body of water; this can occur due to the population distribution and irregular geometric shape of some tracts. The pop2010 field contains the total population from the 2010 Census. The unique ID is tractid; the FIPS state-county-tract- number code. This layer was created as part of the NYC Geodatabase (NYC GDB) project, a resource designed for basic geographic analysis and thematic mapping within the five boroughs of New York City.

Creator:

GIS Lab, Newman Library, Baruch CUNY

Publisher:

Newman Library (Bernard M. Baruch College)

Provider:

Baruch CUNY

Resource Class:

Datasets

Resource Type:

Point data

Subject:

Population, Census districts, and Population geography

Temporal Coverage:

2010

Date Issued:

1/15/2016

Spatial Coverage:

New York, New York, United States, Bronx County, New York, United States, Kings County, New York, United States, New York County, New York, United States, Queens County, New York, United States, Richmond County, New York, United States, Borough of Bronx, New York, United States, Borough of Brooklyn, New York, United States, Borough of Manhattan, New York, United States, Borough of Queens, New York, United States, and Borough of Staten Island, New York, United States

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

Shapefile

More details at:

http://hdl.handle.net/2451/34504