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counties: Data for U.S. Counties and County-Equivalent Entities

Description

Data containing state and county FIPS codes for U.S. counties and county-equivalent entities (CEE) along with county-level demographic data. The CEE includes non-state locations, such as Puerto Rico (PR) and Guam (GU).

Usage

data(counties)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 3235 rows and 6 variables

Details

  • county_name. County Name and Legal/Statistical Area Description
  • state. State Postal Code
  • state_fips. State FIPS Code
  • county_fips. County FIPS Code
  • fips_class. FIPS Class Code
  • CSA. Combined Statistical Area
  • CBSA. Core-based Statistical Area
  • population. County population from 2010 Census

The U.S. Census Bureau groups counties into CSAs and CBSAs primarily based on county population. We provide listings of both in combined_areas and corebased_areas.

For a detailed description, Wikipedia has excellent discussions of both areas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_Statistical_Area and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Based_Statistical_Area. Also, the following map from Wikipedia is excellent to visualize the areas: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Combined_statistical_areas_of_the_United_States_and_Puerto_Rico.gif

NOTE: Not all counties are members of a CSA or CBSA.

The following details about FIPS Class Codes have been blatantly taken from the Census Bureau's website:

  • H1. Identifies an active county or statistically equivalent entity that does not qualify under subclass C7 or H6.
  • H4. Identifies a legally defined inactive or nonfunctioning county or statistically equivalent entity that does not qualify under subclass H6.
  • H5. Identifies census areas in Alaska, a statistical county equivalent entity.
  • H6. Identifies a county or statistically equivalent entity that is areally coextensive or governmentally consolidated with an incorporated place, part of an incorporated place, or a consolidated city.
  • C7: Identifies an incorporated place that is an independent city; that is, it also serves as a county equivalent because it is not part of any county, and a minor civil division (MCD) equivalent because it is not part of any MCD.

For more details, see: http://www.census.gov/geo/reference/codes/cou.html