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Years after passing a new voting map for the township’s five districts based on population, Upper Providence Township was ordered to develop and submit a new map to the Court of Common Pleas for ...
created a dot for each person of each race within each Census block, and scattered them randomly throughout their representative geography. Once plotted on a map and colored, the result is the ...
The flawed maps have presented a big problem as governments try to distribute broadband funding. If a census block is considered covered by the FCC map, it's not eligible for federal assistance.
To start exploring the map, click on a census block — the smallest unit captured by NYPD data. A pop-up will appear, showing the number of shooting incidents that occurred in that census block ...
The fix: We moved 32 blocks on the map from a Highland Park census tract to Eagle Rock. In many cases, readers strongly disagreed with each other. Some thought a boundary was too far to the east ...
The Center for Urban Research maps, based on data from the 2000 Census and 2010 Census, display the predominant race or ethnic group at the block level in these urban regions–Baltimore, Boston, ...
But as a map by cartographer Nik Freeman proves ... As of the 2010 census, the United States consists of 11,078,300 Census Blocks. Of them, 4,871,270 blocks totaling 4.61 million square kilometers ...
Usually on maps, we see the places where people live. But mapmaker Nik Freeman decided it would be interesting to see where people don’t live. By taking data from the U.S. census blocks ...
Roll over the "White Population," "Black Population" or "Hispanic Population" bars below the map to show the racial and ethnic breakdown of each census block group — roughly the size of most ...
Take this fairly typical example from the two of what are called census block group areas that make ... “Bad data makes bad maps.” ...