choroplethr: get_tract_demographics – R documentation

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get_tract_demographics

Get a handful of demographic variables on Census Tracts in a State from the US Census Bureau as a data.frame.

Description

The data comes from the American Community Survey (ACS). The variables are: total population, percent White not Hispanic, Percent Black or African American not Hispanic, percent Asian not Hispanic, percent Hispanic all races, per-capita income, median rent and median age.

Usage

get_tract_demographics(
  state_name,
  county_fips = NULL,
  endyear = 2013,
  span = 5
)

Arguments

`state_name`	The name of the state. See ?state.regions for proper spelling and capitalization.
`county_fips`	An optional vector of county fips codes within the state. Useful to set because getting data on all tracts can be slow.
`endyear`	The end year for the survey
`span`	The span of the survey

References

The choroplethr guide to Census data: http://www.arilamstein.com/open-source/choroplethr/mapping-us-census-data/

A list of all ACS Surveys: http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/affhelp/jsf/pages/metadata.xhtml?lang=en&type=survey&id=survey.en.ACS_ACS

choroplethr

Simplify the Creation of Choropleth Maps in R

v3.7.0

BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE

Authors

Ari Lamstein [aut, cre], Brian Johnson [ctb], Trulia, Inc. [cph]

Initial release