New York City Census Data

Context

There are a number of Kaggle datasets that provide spatial data around New York City. For many of these, it may be quite interesting to relate the data to the demographic and economic characteristics of nearby neighborhoods. I hope this data set will allow for making these comparisons without too much difficulty.

Exploring the data and making maps could be quite interesting as well.

Content

This dataset contains two CSV files:

1. nyc_census_tracts.csv

This file contains a selection of census data taken from the ACS DP03 and DP05 tables. Things like total population,
racial/ethnic demographic information, employment and commuting characteristics, and more are contained here. There is a
great deal of additional data in the raw tables retrieved from the US Census Bureau website, so I could easily add more fields if
there is enough interest.

I obtained data for individual census tracts, which typically contain several thousand residents.

2. census_block_loc.csv

For this file, I used an online FCC census block lookup tool to retrieve the census block code for a 200 x 200 grid containing
New York City and a bit of the surrounding area. This file contains the coordinates and associated census block codes along
with the state and county names to make things a bit more readable to users.

Each census tract is split into a number of blocks, so one must extract the census tract code from the block code.

Acknowledgements

The data here was taken from the American Community Survey 2015 5-year estimates (https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml).

The census block coordinate data was taken from the FCC Census Block Conversions API (https://www.fcc.gov/general/census-block-conversions-api)

As public data from the US government, this is not subject to copyright within the US and should be considered public domain.