2010 Census TIGER/Line® Shapefiles Code Names
I’ve been playing with the Tiger shapefiles to generate some interesting plots. While doing this I kept wondering what all the different geographies were. I couldn’t find a single concise list, so I made my own (but not yet complete) list from various source of information:
- cbsa
- Metropolitan/Micropolitan Statistical Area
- bg
- Block Group
- csa
- Combined Statistical Area
- cd
- Congress Districts
- state
- State
- county
- County
- cnecta
- Combined New England City and Town Area
- necta
- New England City and Town Area
- elsd
- Elementary School District
- scsd
- Secondary School District
- unsd
- Unified School District
- sldl
- State Legislative District Lower Chamber
- sldu
- State Legislative District Upper Chamber
- submcd
- Subminor Civil Division
- vtd
- Voting Districting
- zcta5
- ZIP Code Tabulation Areas
More to be added later, as well as some tools for processing Tiger 2010.