Description
This is an Allegheny County extract of the 2016 US Census Block Groups downloaded from the following website: https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-cart-boundary.html.
If viewing this description on the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center’s open data portal (http://www.wprdc.org), this dataset is harvested on a weekly basis from Allegheny County’s GIS data portal (http://openac.alcogis.opendata.arcgis.com/). The full metadata record for this dataset can also be found on Allegheny County’s GIS portal. You can access the metadata record and other resources on the GIS portal by clicking on the “Explore” button (and choosing the “Go to resource” option) to the right of the “ArcGIS Open Dataset” text below.
Category: Civic Vitality and Governance
Organization: Allegheny County
Department: Geographic Information Systems Group; Department of Administrative Services
Temporal Coverage: 2016
Data Notes:
Coordinate System: GCS_North_American_1983
Development Notes: none
Other: none
Related Document(s): Data Dictionary (https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/data/tiger/tgrshp2016/TGRSHP2016_TechDoc_Ch3.pdf)
Frequency - Data Change: 2016 data
Frequency
- Publishing: one-time
Data Steward Name: See https://www.census.gov/geo/about/contact.html for more information.
Data Steward Email: See https://www.census.gov/geo/about/contact.html for more information.Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| GeoJSON | GeoJSON | Open resource | |
| KML | KML | alcogisallegheny-county-census-block-groups-2016.kml | Open resource |
| Shapefile | ZIP | alcogisallegheny-county-census-block-groups-2016.zip | Open resource |
| CSV | CSV | Open resource | |
| ArcGIS Hub Dataset | HTML | Open resource | |
| Esri Rest API | HTML | Open resource |