urbanization-index/urbanization-state: 17
Data source: https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/blob/master/urbanization-index/urbanization-state.csv
rowid | state | urbanindex |
---|---|---|
17 | Indiana | 10.4105 |
This table contains the data behind the story How Urban Or Rural Is Your State? And What Does That Mean For The 2020 Election?
urbanization-state.csv
contains FiveThirtyEight's urbanization index for every state. This number is calculated as the natural logarithm of the average number of people living within a five-mile radius of a given resident in each census tract in that state.
urbanization-census-tract.csv
contains FiveThirtyEight's urbanization index for every census tract.
Column | Description |
---|---|
statefips |
FIPS code for each state |
state |
Name of state |
gisjoin |
Geographic Identifier for the census tract from the 2010 census |
lat_tract |
Latitude of the center of the census tract |
long_tract |
Longitude of the center of the census tract |
population |
Number of people living in the census tract according to 5-year American Community Survey data from 2017 |
adj_radiuspop_5 |
Estimate of the number of people within a 5-mile radius of a census tract. For a census tract that is more than 5 miles away any other census tract (centroid to centroid), this number is decreased based on the minimum distance to the nearest census tract |
urbanindex |
A calculation of how urban or rural a given area is; calculated as the natural logarithm of adj_radiuspop_5 |
Data source: https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/blob/master/urbanization-index/urbanization-state.csv
rowid | state | urbanindex |
---|---|---|
17 | Indiana | 10.4105 |