Thursday, March 31, 2011

Block Level Kentucky Data Products Available on KSDC Web Site

The Kentucky State Data Center made available several new data products on the web site that may help you work with the new 2010 Census Redistricting Data.  Available for download are Excel workbooks with County, City, and even Tract and Block level population, race, Hispanic  and housing unit data from the recently released data set. KSDC has also calculated change from the 2010 Census for many of these tables.

You can access the new data on the Census Page at the KSDC web site.

Friday, March 25, 2011

Interactive map available for 2010 Census data

The Census Bureau and the Kentucky State Data Center are not the only places to find tools for accessing census data. The New York times has created a United States Map application that offers county level census data for all counties in the United States by moving you computer mouse over any county.

You can find and use this neat tool at:
http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/map

Friday, March 18, 2011

2010 Census Redistricting Data Released

On March 17 the Census Bureau released the 2010 Census Redistricting Data for Kentucky. You can read the press release and access the Bureau's data at this news release site.

 Looking at the data in the County and Cities files put together by the KSDC, you may find some  interesting details about change among Kentucky's cities and counties over the past ten years.

1)  Six cities lost over 1,000 population since 2000; Covington (-2,730), Wilmore (-2,219), Frankfort (-2,214), Newport (-1,775), Campbellsville (-1,390) and Paducah (-1,283).

2)  Two cities have grown over 100 percent in total population in this period, with Coal Run Village (Pike County) leading all cities in the Commonwealth by increasing 195.7%, from 577 to 1,706 people. Crestwood  (Oldham County) had a population increase of 126.7%.

3)  Two cities saw a population decrease of over 50%. Blaine decreased from 245 to 47 people (80.8%) and South Park View declined from 196 to 7 people (96.4%).

4)  South Park View's seven people also means that it has the smallest population of all 422 cities.  Dycusburg was next with 26 people in 2010. In all, there were eleven cities with fewer than 100 people.

5)  Foster and Heritage Creek were not incorporated as cities in 2000 and are the only new cities on the list.

We'll be updating this blog and the KSDC web site with more information from this data release in the coming days as we have more time to analyze it.

Friday, March 11, 2011

Are You Ready? Next Week Kentucky 2010 Census Data Are Released

The Census Bureau has announced it will release Redistricting Data for Kentucky next week!  Here is the official release note:

Next week, the U.S. Census Bureau anticipates releasing local-level 2010 Census population counts for Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota and Tennessee. For each state, the Census Bureau will provide summaries of population totals, as well as data on race, Hispanic origin and voting age. These data will be presented for multiple geographies within the state, such as census blocks, tracts, voting districts, cities, counties and school districts.

According to Public Law 94-171, the Census Bureau must provide redistricting data to the 50 states no later than April 1 of the year following the census. As a result, the Census Bureau is delivering the data state-by-state on a flow basis in February and March. All states will receive their data by April 1, 2011.

Each state's geographic products and redistricting data are first delivered to the state's leadership, such as the governor and majority and minority leaders in the state legislative body. Upon confirmation of delivery to the state leadership, we will release a news release with five custom tables of data. At that time, we will release the full data set to our FTP download site. Within 24 hours, the full set of five detailed tables will also be available to the public online at http://factfinder2.census.gov/.

For more information on the Census Bureau's Redistricting Data Program, visit http://www.census.gov/rdo.