Metropolitan divisions are subdivisions of metropolitan areas with population of at least 2.5 million. Please note: not all metropolitan areas have metropolitan divisions.
metro_divisions(year = NULL, ...)
The data year (defaults to 2017).
arguments to be passed to the underlying `load_tiger` function, which is not exported.
Options include class
, which can be set to "sp"
(the default) or "sf"
to
request sp or sf class objects, and refresh
, which specifies whether or
not to re-download shapefiles (defaults to FALSE
).
http://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/data/tiger/tgrshp2015/TGRSHP2015_TechDoc.pdf
Other metro area functions: combined_statistical_areas
,
core_based_statistical_areas
,
new_england
, urban_areas