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Census Block Boundaries Overview
- 09 Feb 2023
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Census Block Boundaries Overview
- Updated on 09 Feb 2023
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Census boundaries can help round out your mapping solution. Each of these endpoints support return a record by ID, geometry WKT, and a tile and bounding box endpoint. The LightBox census APIs allows you to easily add census boundaries to your mapping application, access to the underlying geometries for your analysis or include census data within your reports.
A census block is the smallest geographic unit used by the United States Census Bureau used to collect population data. census blocks are grouped into block groups, which are grouped into census tracts.
Features
- Tile / Bounding Box requests so that you can add these layers to your favorite map control
- Return a record using a census block ID
- Response contains the polygon represented as a WKT which can be used as client side objects, or to feed your analysis.
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