Georgia Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171)

Tables

For purposes of providing several planning data products DCA has prepared custom extracts from the Georgia Redistricting Summary File Census data. These data became publicly available on March 17. DCA is not otherwise officially engaged in any way in the redistricting legislative process per se.

Census Bureau press release about the Georgia Redistricting data http://2010.census.gov/news/releases/operations/cb11-cn97.html

DCA downloaded the base information that was processed from http://www2.census.gov/census_2010/01-Redistricting_File--PL_94-171/Georgia/

DCA followed the steps in the following two documents to create an ACCESS 2007 database of the Redistricting Data.

http://www2.census.gov/census_2010/01-Redistricting_File--PL_94-171/Georgia/0README_PL.pdf

http://www2.census.gov/census_2010/01-Redistricting_File--PL_94-171/0FILE_STRUCTURE.pdf

DCA created queries for the following summary levels of geography: county, place, tract, block group, block, state legislative district upper and state legislative district lower. The DCA-created queries contain only the following database columns (see table below also): P0010001, P0010002, P0010003, P0010004, P0010005, P0010006, P0010007, P0010008, P0010009, H0010001, H0010002, H0010003, POP100 (same as P0010001), HU100 (same as H0010001), AREALAND, AREAWATR, as well as the necessary columns from the PL_Geo_Header ACCESS file to create the summary level.  There are several more database columns available for your use. You can simply modify the queries to add those you need.

Columns in the DCA-created Redistricting Data Tables and Maps

Column

Definition

Source Table

AREALAND

Area of Land

PL_Geo_Header

AREAWATER

Area of Water

PL_Geo_Header

POP100

Total Population

PL_Geo_Header

HU100

Total Housing Units

PL_Geo_Header

H0010001

Total Housing Units

H1 Occupancy Status

H0010002

Occupied

H1 Occupancy Status

H0010003

Vacant

H1 Occupancy Status

P0010001

Total Population

P1 Race

P0010002

Population of One Race

P1 Race

P0010003

White alone

P1 Race

P0010004

Black alone

P1 Race

P0010005

American Indian alone

P1 Race

P0010006

Asian alone

P1 Race

P0010007

Pacific Islander alone

P1 Race

P0010008

Some Other Race alone

P1 Race

P0010009

Two or More Races

P1 Race

 

 

DCA-created Redistricting Data Tables

Geographic Area

File Type

File Type

County

EXCEL

dBASE

Place (Cities and Census Designated Places or CDP)

EXCEL

dBASE

City (no CDPs)

EXCEL

dBASE

Consolidated Government

EXCEL

dBASE

Tract

EXCEL

dBASE

Block Group

EXCEL

dBASE

Block

EXCEL

dBASE

State Legislative District, Upper (Senate)

EXCEL

dBASE

State Legislative District , Lower (House)

EXCEL

dBASE

 

 

Complete Georgia Redistricting Database (Microsoft ACCESS 2007)

Download an ACCESS Database with All Standard Redistricting Data Tables and Selected Georgia Queries. Complete documentation on the PL 94-171 Summary File is available at http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/doc/pl94-171.pdf (and is included in the DCA download.) This ACCESS database will provide you with ALL of the standard Redistricting data base tables as issued by the Census Bureau. DCA created table relationships and queries to extract the custom tables for the levels of geography as described above. You can modify these queries to add any or all of the other data columns as needed.

 

Maps with Data

DCA-created Redistricting Data Tables were combined with Census 2010 TIGER/Line maps to produce the following series of maps in ESRI shapefile format.

Geographic Area

File Type

County

Zipped Shape

Place

Zipped Shape

Tract

Zipped Shape

Block Group

Zipped Shape

Block

Zipped Shape

State Legislative District, Upper (Senate)

Zipped Shape

State Legislative District , Lower (House)

Zipped Shape

 

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