Dataset
Census Tracts Boston (2020)
<div><a target='_blank' href='https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/about/glossary.html#par_textimage_13' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'>Census Tracts</a> are small geographic subdivisions of a county, designed by the U.S. Census Bureau to track population change over…
Dataset
- Publisher
- Planning Department
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 15
- Keywords
- 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029, Boston, Boston geometry, Census, Census Tracts, City of Boston, TIGER, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. census, US Census Bureau, US census, boston, boundaries, boundary, census, census bureau, census tract, city of boston, current census tracts, current tracts, data, decennial, demographic, demographics, estimates, geography, geometry, historic, historical, neighborhood, neighborhoods, people, population, research, research requests, researcher, shape, shapefile, small geography, tiger, tract, tracts
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/census-tracts-boston-2020
Artifacts
“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.
| Format | Preservation | Size | Digest | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ArcGIS GeoServices REST API | referenced | — | — | source |
| CSV | referenced | 32920 | 198a2982d5888b6bdaec76a1f8cc455e5c6ec5183ec87ac51e1268f2469afb47 | source |
| GeoJSON | referenced | 965119 | d2e1a36e1de4aec4dad8f7df8e0cecc26ffca1bc2140ac18fbfaf82e26dc62fe | source |
Column dictionary
The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
statefp20 | text | |
countyfp20 | text | |
tractce20 | text | |
geoid20 | text | |
name20 | text | |
namelsad20 | text | |
mtfcc20 | text | |
funcstat20 | text | |
aland20 | text | |
awater20 | text | |
intptlat20 | text | |
intptlon20 | text | |
Shape_Length | text | |
Shape_Area | text | |
shape_wkt | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:census-tracts-boston-2020
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/census-tracts-boston-2020
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/census-tracts-boston-2020.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
- Licence
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- census-tracts-boston-2020
- Attribution
- City of Boston
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpoint | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | normalize | mapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |