Feature Catalog for the Current Census Tract State-based
The Current Census Tract State-based shapefile contains attributes for Census tracts. These are small, relatively permanent statistical subdivisions of a county or equivalent entity.
2019
2019-06-01
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TRACT.shp
Current Census Tract State-based
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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.
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)
Range Domain Minimum: 0
Range Domain Maximum: 9,999,999,999,999
AWATER
Current water area (square meters)
Range Domain Minimum: 0
Range Domain Maximum: 9,999,999,999,999
INTPTLAT
Current latitude of the internal point
Decimal degrees
Range Domain Minimum: -90.000000
Range Domain Maximum: 90.000000
INTPTLON
Current longitude of the internal point
Decimal degrees
Range Domain Minimum: -180.000000
Range Domain Maximum: 180.000000