Available Now at KSDC are 2010 Block Shapefiles with Redistricting Data

2010 BLOCK SHAPEFILES WITH POPULATION AND HOUSING UNITS

Several people have requested KSDC make available the block level redistricting data for use in GIS applicatons.  Below is a link to the 2010 Public Law 94-171 TIGER Shapefiles for tabulation blocks with Table P1 (Total Population by Race) and Table H1 (Housing Units by Tenure) joined in the attribute tables. This ia a large zipped file (153 megabytes) containing all 161,672 blocks in Kentucky. There is a "County" field available to select out blocks by county. For more information about using this data, visit the Redistricting Data web site. You can find the Technical Documentation here.

The shapefiles can be downloaded here from the KSDC Census data page.