Census data raw file download.

"Rehoboth, he likes to say, used to be an island of tolerance in a sea of homophobia, and now is an island of tolerance in a sea of outlet malls." (ha)

Sometimes I am surprised by what I find: "The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) provides, free of charge, aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States between 1790 and 2000. NHGIS offers the following options to obtain data:"

xls files for all counties. including econ, housing, election etc data in addition to usual census demography

DBF format

"This trend suggests increased sorting of high- and low-income families into neighborhoods that reflect their own economic profiles, and increased vulnerability of middle-class neighborhoods "tipping" towards higher- or lower-income status."

urban pops to double in next 25 years.

Latest addition to fitnr: A graphing tool that visualizes distribution of the US population in custom population density ranges. Choose quantile or equal interval.

median (plus one) census tract over density

'Though true that the [Greater] LA urbanized area has a greater density than the [Greater] New York urbanized area, the LA urbanized area is half the size of New York’s" — NYC + 8 suburban counties has nearly 2x the density of LA.

Thesis seems to be: "So this is in fact all about demographics."

Census counts prisoners in their cells, not their home. Large cache of docs and maps, state-by-state run downs.

The accompanying table provides summary measures of fertility and mortality for the period 1800-2000. It includes, for fertility, the crude birthrate, the child-woman ratio (based solely on census data), and the total fertility rate; and, for mortality, l

using the power of multiplication to generate "31,000,000,000 different shapes" composed of 6 sections, each of which has 144 or 12 different options. Handwaving connects it to world population size. History => demographics?

kio: The reverse correlation between income & fertility is clear. Unexpected: breakdown by educational attainment is mixed: women without HS diploma have very few kids. (see pg 4)

kio: check out the children 0-4 in germany map.

center/periphery in western & central Europe. (More NUTS3). This site has many great maps of Euro

2 annoying things: no 2005 maps & password protected PDFs. Aren't US govt works public dom?

If you are looking for an electronic file that has hundreds of social, economic, and housing data items in one place for all 77 Community Areas in the city of Chicago, this is the file to download.