I am trying to find or calculate population density for all Places in the US. I can find the population for these in a table like B01001 but I'm not sure if the land area is available in any form through one of the published tables.
Final comment, if the area is updated you could use the newly released Tiger Line files for those that changed. They have a vintage as do the population estimates. Hope this is confusing enough:)
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True story. On the other hand, there is no pricing tab on Census Download pages. So there's that.
Andy and Glenn - Thanks for your help.
Does anyone know where to download the national PL94-171 File? I seem to be unable to find it through www2.census.gov.
The national redistricting file has places, which means one Geoheader file will have what you need. Areawater Arealand
Here is the doc: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial/2020/technical-documentation/complete-tech-docs/summary-file/2020Census_PL94_171Redistricting_NationalTechDoc.pdf
The data are here. I would recommend using the Legacy file format: https://www.census.gov/data/datasets/2020/dec/2020-census-redistricting-summary-file-dataset.html
Andrew, as far as I can see, these are all in state-level zip files, so Cliff would still need to download and unzip lots of individual files. Worse yet, they put each zip file in its own directory for no reason at all. Tedious!
If you're going to do that, you might as well grab the TIGER/Line shapefiles (can do all at once with a browser extension like DownThemAll, or script it), unzip them all, throw away everything but the DBF files, and combine and parse them with SAS or whatever.