Feature Catalog for the Census Tracts TIGER/Line Shapefiles Census Tracts 2025 2025-09-18 eng; USA utf8 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 TRACT.shp Current Census Tract State-based false STATEFP Current state Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) codes National Standard Codes (ANSI INCITS 38-2009), Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) - States/State Equivalents COUNTYFP Current county Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) code National Standard Codes (ANSI INCITS 31-2009), Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) - Counties/County Equivalents TRACTCE Current census tract code 000100 to 998999 Census tract number 990000 to 990099 Water tract (2010 and continuing) 990100 to 998999 Census tract number GEOID Census tract identifier, a concatenation of Current state Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) code, county FIPS code, and census tract code The GEOID attribute is a concatenation of the state FIPS code, followed by the county FIPS code, followed by the census tract code. No spaces are allowed between the two codes. The State FIPS code is taken from "National Standard Codes (ANSI INCITS 38-2009), Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) - States". The county FIPS code is taken from "National Standard Codes (ANSI INCITS 31-2009), Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) - Counties/County Equivalents". The census tract code is taken from the "TRACTCE" attribute. GEOIDFQ Fully qualified census tract identifier, a concatenation of census survey summary level information with the census tract identifier. The GEOIDFQ attribute is calculated to facilitate joining census spatial data to census survey summary files. The GEOIDFQ attribute is a concatenation of the summary level code, followed by the geovariant code, followed by the geocomponent code, followed by 'US', followed by the census tract identifier. No spaces are allowed between the codes. The summary level code is '140'. The geovariant code is '00'. The geocomponent code is '00'. The census tract identifier is taken from the 'GEOID' attribute. NAME Current census tract name, this is the census tract code converted to an integer or integer plus two-digit decimal if the last two characters of the code are not both zeros. Values for this attribute are composed of a set of census tract names. As such, they do not exist in a known, predefined set. NAMELSAD Current translated legal/statistical area description and the census tract name Refer to the name in the 'TRACTCE' field and the translated legal/statistical area description code for census tracts MTFCC MAF/TIGER feature class code G5020 Census Tract FUNCSTAT Current functional status S Statistical entity ALAND Current land area (square meters) 0 9,999,999,999,999 AWATER Current water area (square meters) 0 9,999,999,999,999 INTPTLAT Current latitude of the internal point -90 90 INTPTLON Current longitude of the internal point -180 180