Let me guess. You need Census 2010 results by County, City and State. You don’t want to wade through the US Census Bureau’s website. You don’t want to login or give your email address. And you’d like some charts as well as data tables. Free, Fast, and There’s No Login If the above paragraph describes [...]
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2 Ways to Figure Out Census Tracts by City
You have 2 options for figuring out which Census tracts are in your city. Important Note: What you and me and other normal people would call cities or towns, the Census Bureau calls places. Option 1. Census Tracts by City for Complex Cities (i.e. New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago) Go to the Census Bureau’s website [...]
Fixing Your Boring Presentations Part 2: How Badly Do You Want Your Idea to Live?
In “Your Urban Planning Presentation is Boring. Here’s Why and How to Fix It”, I beat you up about giving boring presentations. So it’s only fair that I go into detail about how to give an engaging presentation along with a real world example. Quick Recap of How to Fix Boring Presentations 10% Fix: [...]
Walkable Communities & Diversity: A Look Using Census 2010 Data
The Short Version I pulled Census 2010 data for 20 walkable neighborhoods in the United States and compared the racial percentages for those neighborhoods to the racial percentages of either the city or county surrounding the neighborhood. Two patterns appeared. Walkable neighborhoods are less diverse than their surrounding cities/counties. Blacks & Hispanics are less likely [...]
Census 2010 Cities Data
I recently got a request from a user to provide Census 2010 cities data for all cities in the United States through Cubit’s new new Name Your Geography feature. The Cubit user requesting this data said that the “American Fact Finder 2 is currently throwing an error for this search.” Since I’ve already pulled Census 2010 Redistricting [...]
