How to identify list of census tracts in a municipality (not county)

Natalie Britton

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Jan 25, 2023, 2:48:35 PM1/25/23

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Hi everyone,

I'm working with the Energy Equity Project, and we're wondering if anyone has a resource or strategy to share in obtaining a list of all the census tracts in a municipality? A list of tracts would be great, but even a central resource that has the shapefile boundaries of some of the largest US cities (maybe top 100, top 500) would be very helpful to overlay with census tracts.

Thanks and take care everyone,

Natalie

Shahyd, Khalil

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Jan 25, 2023, 5:59:23 PM1/25/23

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Natalie, the city planning department should have that if it's a specific city you're looking for? If you're looking for a database of those files, maybe try National League of Cities?

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Brown, Lucas M. EOP/OMB

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Jan 25, 2023, 7:47:14 PM1/25/23

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Hi all,

GeoCorr from the University of Missouri is officially recommended by the US Census Bureau for a variety of translations between geographic units.

Make sure to start with the 2010 Census Tracts (not 2020), so I’d suggest using the “Geocorr 2018” option which has 2010 tracts. But then you can translate those tracts into Metropolitan Areas, CBSAs, etc.

Does that answer your use case?

Lucas

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Natalie Britton

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Jan 31, 2023, 12:30:06 PM1/31/23

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Hi all,

Thank you so much for your helpful suggestions. While GeoCorr looks great, I think what we might end up doing is downloading the 2021 Census Place files and overlaying them with Census tracts for each state (because our original dataset is for 2021 census tracts/IDs, so we need to find 2021 places to do an easy join). I can send around that dataset or workflow when it's finished if anyone is interested.