Create Block Level Data — create_block

Creates a block level dataset, using the decennial census information, with the standard redistricting variables.

create_block_table(
  state,
  county = NULL,
  geometry = TRUE,
  year = 2020,
  mem = FALSE,
  epsg = 3857
)

Arguments

state: Required. Two letter state postal code.
county: Optional. Name of county. If not provided, returns blocks for the entire state.
geometry: Defaults to TRUE. Whether to return the geometry or not.
year: year, must be 2000, 2010, or 2020
mem: Default is FALSE. Set TRUE to use memoized backend.
epsg: numeric EPSG code to planarize to. Default is 3857.

Value

dataframe with data for each block in the selected region. Data includes 2 sets of columns for each race or ethnicity category: population (pop) and voting age population (vap)

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# uses the Census API
create_block_table(state = 'NY', county = 'Rockland', geometry = FALSE)
}