Create Tract Level Data

create_tract_table(
  state,
  county,
  geometry = TRUE,
  year = 2019,
  mem = FALSE,
  epsg = 3857
)

Arguments

state: Required. Two letter state postal code.
county: Optional. Name of county. If not provided, returns tracts for the entire state.
geometry: Defaults to TRUE. Whether to return the geography or not.
year: year, must be >= 2009 and <= 2019.
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 tract in the selected region. Data includes 3 sets of columns for each race or ethnicity category: population (pop), voting age population (vap), and citizen voting age population (cvap)

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# Relies on Census Bureau API
tract <- create_tract_table('NY', 'Rockland', year = 2018)
}