U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division
2020
TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2020, 2020 state, New Mexico, 2020 Census Census Tract
State-based
2020
vector digital data
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger
The TIGER/Line Files are shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) that are
an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census
Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and
Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national
file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line File is
designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover
the entire nation. Census tracts are small, relatively permanent statistical
subdivisions of a county or equivalent entity, and were defined by local
participants as part of the 2020 Census Participant Statistical Areas Program. The
Census Bureau delineated the census tracts in situations where no local participant
existed or where all the potential participants declined to participate. The primary
purpose of census tracts is to provide a stable set of geographic units for the
presentation of census data and comparison back to previous decennial censuses.
Census tracts generally have a population size between 1,200 and 8,000 people, with
an optimum size of 4,000 people. When first delineated, census tracts were designed
to be homogeneous with respect to population characteristics, economic status, and
living conditions. The spatial size of census tracts varies widely depending on the
density of settlement. Physical changes in street patterns caused by highway
construction, new development, and so forth, may require boundary revisions. In
addition, census tracts occasionally are split due to population growth, or combined
as a result of substantial population decline. Census tract boundaries generally
follow visible and identifiable features. They may follow legal boundaries such as
minor civil division (MCD) or incorporated place boundaries in some States and
situations to allow for census tract-to-governmental unit relationships where the
governmental boundaries tend to remain unchanged between censuses. State and county
boundaries always are census tract boundaries in the standard census geographic
hierarchy. In a few rare instances, a census tract may consist of noncontiguous
areas. These noncontiguous areas may occur where the census tracts are coextensive
with all or parts of legal entities that are themselves noncontiguous. For the 2020
Census, the census tract code range of 9400 through 9499 was enforced for census
tracts that include a majority American Indian population according to Census 2000
data and/or their area was primarily covered by federally recognized American Indian
reservations and/or off-reservation trust lands; the code range 9800 through 9899
was enforced for those census tracts that contained little or no population and
represented a relatively large special land use area such as a National Park,
military installation, or a business/industrial park; and the code range 9900
through 9998 was enforced for those census tracts that contained only water area, no
land area.
In order for others to use the information in the Census MAF/TIGER database in
a geographic information system (GIS) or for other geographic applications, the
Census Bureau releases to the public extracts of the database in the form of
TIGER/Line Shapefiles.
20200523
Publication Date
TIGER/Line Shapefiles are extracted from the Census MAF/TIGER database. No
changes or updates will be made to this version of the TIGER/Line Shapefiles. Future
releases of TIGER/Line Shapefiles will reflect updates made to the Census MAF/TIGER
database.
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31.332172
ISO 19115 Topic Categories
boundaries
None
State or equivalent entity
Polygon
Census Tract
Tract
INCITS.38-200x (R2004),INCITS.31-200x (R2007),INCITS.454-200x,INCITS
455-200x,INCITS 446-2008
United States
U.S.
State or Equivalent Entity
New Mexico
NM
35
None
The TIGER/Line Shapefile products are not copyrighted however TIGER/Line and
Census TIGER are registered trademarks of the U.S. Census Bureau. These products are
free to use in a product or publication, however acknowledgement must be given to the
U.S. Census Bureau as the source. The boundary information in the TIGER/Line Shapefiles
are for statistical data collection and tabulation purposes only; their depiction and
designation for statistical purposes does not constitute a determination of
jurisdictional authority or rights of ownership or entitlement and they are not legal
land descriptions.Coordinates in the TIGER/Line shapefiles have six implied decimal
places, but the positional accuracy of these coordinates is not as great as the six
decimal places suggest.
U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division,
Geographic Products Branch
Mailing address
4600 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400
Washington
DC
20233-7400
United States
301-763-1128
301-763-4710
geo.tiger@census.gov
Accurate against Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), FIPS
Publication 6-4, and FIPS-55 at the 100% level for the codes and base names. The
remaining attribute information has been examined but has not been fully tested for
accuracy.
The Census Bureau performed automated tests to ensure logical consistency and limits
of shapefiles. Segments making up the outer and inner boundaries of a polygon tie
end-to-end to completely enclose the area. All polygons are tested for closure. The
Census Bureau uses its internally developed geographic update system to enhance and
modify spatial and attribute data in the Census MAF/TIGER database. Standard geographic
codes, such as FIPS codes for states, counties, municipalities, county subdivisions,
places, American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian areas, and congressional districts
are used when encoding spatial entities. The Census Bureau performed spatial data tests
for logical consistency of the codes during the compilation of the original Census
MAF/TIGER database files. Most of the codes for geographic entities except states,
counties, urban areas, Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs), American Indian Areas
(AIAs), and congressional districts were provided to the Census Bureau by the USGS, the
agency responsible for maintaining FIPS 55. Feature attribute information has been
examined but has not been fully tested for consistency. For the TIGER/Line Shapefiles,
the Point and Vector Object Count for the G-polygon SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
reflects the number of records in the shapefile attribute table. For multi-polygon
features, only one attribute record exists for each multi-polygon rather than one
attribute record per individual G-polygon component of the multi-polygon feature.
TIGER/Line Shapefile multi-polygons are an exception to the G-polygon object type
classification. Therefore, when multi-polygons exist in a shapefile, the object count
will be less than the actual number of G-polygons.
Data completeness of the TIGER/Line Shapefiles reflects the contents of the Census
MAF/TIGER database at the time the TIGER/Line Shapefiles were created.
U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography
Division
Unpublished material
Census MAF/TIGER database
online
20200523
Publication Date
Census MAF/TIGER
The selected geographic and cartographic information (line segments) are
derived from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File Topologically
Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) database.
TIGER/Line Shapefiles are extracted from the Census MAF/TIGER database by
nation, state, county, and entity. Census MAF/TIGER data for all of the
aforementioned geographic entities are then distributed among the shapefiles
each containing attributes for line, polygon, or landmark geographic data.
withheld
2020
Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), ANSI, and feature
names.
Vector
Simple
FALSE
0
TRUE
FALSE
0.000458
0.000458
Decimal degrees
North American Datum of 1983 in the 48 contiguous states, the District of
Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United States,
and the Pacific Island Areas.
Geodetic Reference System 80
6378137
298257
TRACT20.shp
2020 Census Census Tract State-based
U.S. Census Bureau
Feature Class
0
OBJECTID
OBJECTID
OID
4
0
0
Internal feature number.
Esri
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Shape
Shape
Geometry
0
0
0
Feature geometry.
Esri
Coordinates defining the features.
STATEFP20
2020 Census state Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)
codes
U.S. Census Bureau
INCITS.38-200x (R2004), Codes for the Identification of the
States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Insular Areas of
the United States (Formerly FIPS 5-2)
U.S. Census Bureau
STATEFP20
String
2
0
0
COUNTYFP20
2020 Census county Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)
code
U.S. Census Bureau
INCITS.31-200x (R2007), Codes for the Identification of the
Counties and Equivalent Areas of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the
Insular Areas of the United States (Formerly FIPS 6-4)
U.S. Census Bureau
COUNTYFP20
String
3
0
0
TRACTCE20
2020 Census census tract code
U.S. Census Bureau
000000
Water tract in some coastal and Great Lakes water and territorial
sea
U.S. Census
000100 to 998999
Census tract number
U.S. Census Bureau
TRACTCE20
String
6
0
0
GEOID20
Census tract identifier, a concatenation of 2020 Census state Federal
Information Processing Standards (FIPS) code, county FIPS code, and census tract
code
U.S. Census Bureau
INCITS.38-200x (R2004), Codes for the Identification of the
States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Insular Areas of
the United States (Formerly FIPS 5-2), INCITS.31-200x (R2007), Codes for
the Identification of the Counties and Equivalent Areas of the United
States, Puerto Rico, and the Insular Areas of the United States
(Formerly FIPS 6-4) and the census tract code that appears in
TRACTCE10
U.S. Census Bureau
GEOID20
String
12
0
0
NAME20
2020 Census census tract name, this is the census tract code converted to
an integer or integer plus two-digit decimal if the last two characters of the
code are not both zeros.
U.S. Census Bureau
Refer to the online census tract gazetteer file at URL:
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/gazette.html
U.S. Census Bureau
NAME20
String
7
0
0
NAMELSAD20
2020 Census translated legal/statistical area description and the census
tract name
U.S. Census Bureau
Refer to the online census tract gazetteer file at URL:
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/gazette.html and translated
legal/statistical area description code CT, Census Tract
U.S. Census Bureau
NAMELSAD20
String
13
0
0
MTFCC20
MAF/TIGER feature class code
U.S. Census Bureau
G5020
Census Tract
U.S. Census Bureau
MTFCC20
String
5
0
0
FUNCSTAT20
2020 Census functional status
U.S. Census Bureau
S
Statistical entity
U.S. Census Bureau
FUNCSTAT20
String
1
0
0
ALAND20
2020 Census land area (square meters)
U.S. Census Bureau
0 to 9,999,999,999,999
Blank
U.S. Census Bureau
ALAND20
Double
8
0
0
AWATER20
2020 Census water area (square meters)
U.S. Census Bureau
0 to 9,999,999,999,999
Blank
U.S. Census Bureau
AWATER20
Double
8
0
0
INTPTLAT20
2020 Census latitude of the internal point
U.S. Census Bureau
00
Blank
U.S. Census Bureau
INTPTLAT20
String
11
0
0
INTPTLON20
2020 Census longitude of the internal point
U.S. Census Bureau
00
Blank
U.S. Census Bureau
INTPTLON20
String
12
0
0
Shape_Length
Shape_Length
Double
8
0
0
Length of feature in internal units.
Esri
Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.
Shape_Area
Shape_Area
Double
8
0
0
Area of feature in internal units squared.
Esri
Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.
U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division,
Geographic Products Branch
Mailing address
4600 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400
Washington
DC
20233-7400
United States
301-763-1128
301-763-4710
geo.tiger@census.gov
No warranty, expressed or implied is made with regard to the accuracy of these
data, and no liability is assumed by the U.S. Government in general or the U.S. Census
Bureau in specific as to the spatial or attribute accuracy of the data. The act of
distribution shall not constitute any such warranty and no responsibility is assumed by
the U.S. government in the use of these files. The boundary information in the
TIGER/Line Shapefiles is for statistical data collection and tabulation purposes only;
their depiction and designation for statistical purposes do not constitute a
determination of jurisdictional authority or rights of ownership or entitlement and they
are not legal land descriptions.
TGRSHP (compressed)
PK-ZIP, version 1.93 A or higher
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger
DVD-ROM (Only if offered offline)
ISO 9660
The online copy of the TIGER/Line files may be accessed without charge.
To obtain more information about ordering TIGER/Line shapefiles visit
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger
The TIGER/Line shapefiles contain geographic data only and do not include display
mapping software or statistical data. For information on how to use the TIGER/Line
shapefile data with specific software package users shall contact the company that
produced the software.
20200910
U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division,
Geographic Products Branch
Mailing address
4600 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400
Washington
DC
20233-7400
United States
301-763-1128
301-763-4710
geo.tiger@census.gov
FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
FGDC-STD-001-1998
Esri ArcGIS 12.8.0.29751
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Geographic
GCS_WGS_1984
Angular Unit: Degree (0.017453)
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