Name: District Urbanization Index 2022
Creator: FiveThirtyEight
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

About this Dataset

District Urbanization Index 2022

This dataset includes an urbanization index for U.S. congressional districts, based on a combination of Census data and FiveThirtyEight methodology. It quantifies how urban or rural a district is.
The urbanization index is calculated as the natural logarithm of the average number of people living within a five-mile radius of every census tract in a given district, based on a weighted average of the population of each census tract. The population of a census tract is according to 2020 census data.

Tables

Urbanization Index 2022

@fivethirtyeight.district_urbanization_index_2022.urbanization_index_2022

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CREATE TABLE urbanization_index_2022 (
  "stcd" VARCHAR,
  "state" VARCHAR,
  "cd" BIGINT,
  "pvi_22" DOUBLE,
  "urbanindex" DOUBLE,
  "rural" DOUBLE,
  "exurban" DOUBLE,
  "suburban" DOUBLE,
  "urban" DOUBLE,
  "grouping" VARCHAR
);