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2020 Census Block Crosswalk Data

Source: Brian Amos and Michael McDonald

File Citation

Amos, Brian, 2021, “2020 Census Block Crosswalk Data”, https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/T9VMJO, Harvard Dataverse, V2

Crosswalks between 2020 Census block geography and older Census geography, as well as certain data fields reaggregated to the 2020 blocks and rounded to whole numbers. The Census provides crosswalks between 2010 and 2020 block geography (https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/relationship-files.html), but the only measure that is given of what share of a 2010 block belongs to a 2020 block in the case of a split is area. Broadly speaking, the files on this dataverse were made using the method outlined in our (Brian Amos and Michael McDonald) 2017 paper in Public Opinion Quarterly entitled “When Boundaries Collide: Constructing a National Database of Demographic and Voting Statistics,” where the National Land Cover Database is used to better predict where people live in the case of a split block. See readme.txt for more details, as well as licensing and warranty information.

File Type / Download Version / Description Date Uploaded
TXT Data and sourcing information
PDF Amos, McDonald, and Watkins' "When Boundaries Collide," 2017 POQ. Explains methodology of using land cover data to estimate block splits
SHP 2019 citizen voting-age population estimates (ACS) April 10, 2021
SHP 2019 total population estimates (ACS) April 10, 2021
SHP Crosswalk from 2010 block groups, weighted by total population April 10, 2021
SHP Crosswalk from 2019 block groups, weighted by total population April 10, 2021
SHP Crosswalk from 2019 block groups, weighted by voting-age population April 10, 2021
SHP Crosswalk from 2010 blocks April 10, 2021
SHP 2010 total population estimates (2010 decennial census) April 10, 2021
SHP 2019 population estimates by race (ACS) April 24, 2021

First published June 26, 2023

Last updated June 26, 2023