I don't believe ZCTAs cover the entire country.It's definitely not based on the respondents' ZIP; ZCTAs are explicitly different than mailing zip codes, based on coordinate location, not address.
The Census Bureau does not produce population data at the Zip Code level, but rather by the Census Bureau's own Zip Code Tabulation Areas, or "ZCTA." If you are wondering what a ZCTA is, watch this quick explanation and how they compare to zip codes…
I'm looking at the 5-year estimate data for a specific zip code and analyzing population by age. Specifically, I'm looking at the population changes in the 0-4 year old and 5-9 year old populations. The analysis that I'm attempting to complete…
This is true but there are many cases where zip code is important in itself. Change of address and real estate data is often aggregated that way. And the truth is, your house is worth more or less in some zip codes so it makes sense
I'm trying to merge zip codes so the the combined area has a population of 20,000 or more. I'm trying to de-identify a data set that has zip codes by merging adjacent ZCTAs.
If you have any ideas let me know. Perhaps someone has already done this…
Cliff,
We've got land and water areas (and populations, and therefore densities) for every state, county, metro, city, cosub, and zip code.Shoot me an email and I'll hook you up.Bertbert@bestplaces.net
Yes I did something like this here for zip code and for income I just grabbed household income by race to see if the effect was different in higher-income Black areas (not really) -- zip code is not an optimal geography but some of my examples in suburban…
Also for business stats you might look at County/Zip Code Business Patterns, lots of munginess from non disclosure so read up, but you generally get # businesses by type, employees and payroll www.census.gov/.../cbp.html
I've been busy setting up the new set of geographies from the 2020 ACS and found that this year's set of ZCTAs is exactly the same as last year.32989 and they are all the same.
I know there have been a number of new zip codes created in the last…
You might be looking for County Business Patterns which can also be done for zip codes www.census.gov/.../cbp.html