Census data on the Atlanta MSA in 2020

A dataset containing U.S. census data on the Atlanta MSA with tract polygons.

Usage

atlanta

Format

A simple feature collection with 1,006 rows and 8 columns:

geoid: A geographic unit identifier
tract: The tract number
county: county
state: state
estimate_median_age: estimate median age unit in years
pct_bachelor: percent of population with a bachelor's degree or higher
pct_veteran: percent of population that are veterans

Details

A dataset containing U.S. census data on the Atlanta MSA in 2020 at the "tract" level. The Atlanta MSA, as of publication, was comprised of five counties: Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb, Gwinnett, and Clayton. While the Census Bureau publishes a margin of error ("moe") for each estimate, this dataset only includes the point estimate. Data were retrieved from the U.S. Census Bureau's API using the tidycensus package.

References

U.S. Census Bureau (2015-2020). American Community Survey 5-year Estimates.

Examples

if (requireNamespace("sf", quietly = TRUE)) {
  data(atlanta)
  plot(atlanta["estimate_median_age"])
  }