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How is the United States Census Geography defined by their FIPS Codes?

  • 1.  How is the United States Census Geography defined by their FIPS Codes?

    Posted 08-09-2017 14:12
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    US Census definitions of a Geography and FIPS CODES

    The FIPS county code is a five-digit Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) code (FIPS 6-4) which uniquely identifies counties and county equivalents in the United States, certain U.S. possessions, and certain freely associated states.

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    A 15-digit number that begins with the state identifier and ends with the block identifier.

    BLOCKID: 15-character code that is the concatenation of fields consisting of the 2-character state FIPS code, the 3-character county FIPS code, the 6-character census tract code, and the 4-character tabulation block code.



  • 2.  RE: How is the United States Census Geography defined by their FIPS Codes?

    Employee
    Posted 08-09-2017 15:18

    Matt, this is a very handy breakdown of FIPS codes and how they relate to Census geographies - Thanks!?