Census Block Group Boundaries Overview
- 08 Feb 2023
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Census Block Group Boundaries Overview
- Updated on 08 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 group is a geographical unit used by the United States Census Bureau which is between the census tract and the census block.
Features
- Tile / Bounding Box requests to support adding to your mapping application.
- Return a record using a census block group 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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