Downloading Redistricting Census 2000 TIGER/Line Files

The Redistricting Census 2000 TIGER/Line files are specifically intended to support the needs of the redistricting community. Because of the timing of this release it does NOT include the ZIP Code^® Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs^™) nor updated address ranges based on the final Census 2000 information. The address ranges are comparable to those in the 1999 TIGER/Line files. The Redistricting Census 2000 TIGER/Line files cover all counties, parishes, boroughs, census geographic areas and equivalent entities for each state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. The Redistricting Census 2000 TIGER/Line files will NOT include files for American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Minor Outlying Areas (Midway), and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Census 2000 TIGER/Line files, scheduled for release in the second quarter of 2001, will include files for these areas, as well as the ZCTA information and the updated Census 2000 address ranges.

The TIGER/Line files are extracts of selected geographic and cartographic information from the Census Bureau's TIGER (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing) database. There is one archived (zipped) TIGER/Line file for each county or county equivalent. The file names consist of TGR + the 2-digit state FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) code + the 3-digit county FIPS code i.e. TGR48029.ZIP for Bexar County, Texas. To find the codes for all Texas counties, refer to the Texas Counties table. To find the codes for other states and counties refer to Appendix A of the technical documentation. These documents are in Adobe Acrobat's Portable Document Format (PDF) and require the Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 for viewing. The reader is available free from the Adobe web site. The metadata is in ASCII text format.

You can now download one or more Redistricting Census 2000 Tiger/Line files. The Texas folder contains a Counts file and individual county files. The county files are stored in compressed format and are compatible with PK Ware's PK Zip software. The counts48.txt file shows the counts for the number of records for each record type by county for Texas If the count for a particular record type is 0, then that record type does not exist for that county.

The Census Bureau is providing the TIGER/Line files in ASCII text format only and the data are NOT in the form of map images. To create maps with the TIGER/Line files, one would typically use a Geographic Information System (GIS) package or other mapping software. Users are responsible for converting or translating the files into a format used by their specific software package. For information on how to use the TIGER/Line data with a specific software package one should contact the company that produced that software. For information on companies that sell products that use TIGER/Line data or that provide TIGER/Line related services, refer to the TIGER Vendor List. Before downloading files, please refer to the README file.

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