cookdata: Data set associated with CookCensusTracts shape file
Description
Census tract data for Cook County, IL for 2000Format
A data frame with 1343 observations on the following variables:
AREA
- Area of the census tract in square miles
TRACT
- Census tract number
POPULATION
- Total population
HHMEDINC
- Median household income
FAR
- Average floor-area ratio for single-family residential homes
AGE
- Average age of single-family residential homes
CHICAGO
- Indicates whether the tract is in Chicago.
Note that the "O'Hare" community area is not counted as part of Chicago when defining this variable.
CAREA
- Community area name for tracts in Chicago
LONGITUDE
- Longitude of the tract centroid
LATITUDE
- Latitude of the tract centroid
DCBD
- Distance from the Chicago CBD, measured in miles
LNFAR
- Natural log of FAR
LNDENS
- Natural Log of Dens