Gets ACS data from the Census API

Source: R/coc_county_tract_crosswalk.R

Requests ACS population data for all tracts in the 50 states + DC as well as spatial data for the tracts. It also converts the spatial data to the given CRS.

fetch_tract_data(year, crs)

Arguments

year

Year of the ACS data and tract boundaries to fetch
crs

The EPSG code for the tract spatial data CRS

Value

A spatial data frame:

  • tract_fips: Census Tract FIPS code

  • year: Year

  • tract_pop: Census Tract population

  • tract_poverty_pop: Census Tract population below poverty line

  • tract_renting_hh: Number of renter households in Census Tract

  • geometry: Census Tract border spatial data

See also

match_tracts_to_cocs(), build_tract_crosswalk(), build_county_crosswalk()