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.