County and City Databook

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County and City Databook is the official statistics for 1,078 cities, all 3,141 U.S. counties, and 11,097 places of 2,500 or more inhabitants in the United States about socioeconomic and housing data from the 1990 census and the surveys that update them business in your city and county, median income, tax base, and more than 100 other variables for counties and cities nationwide.

Counties, cities and places nationwide

The Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce

Irregular, earliest 1949, after that 1952, 1956, 1962, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1983, 1988, the latest 1994.

"County and City Data Book" 1994

Subject content: Over 220 data items for states and counties; almost 200 data items for cities; and 33 items for places of 2,500 or more. Vintage of data: 1987 through 1992. Examples: age, money and personal income, population, education, health care and human services, housing ownership and value, births, deaths, poverty, local government finance, employment, etc. In addition, tables show data on business, banking, climate, elections, and social programs. Data come from the Census Bureau, other Federal government agencies and private organizations.

The data in this book are organized into four main data tables. Table A presents 220 data items for the United States as a whole, each census geographic region and division, and the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Table B presents for each county and equivalent area the same 220 data items shown in Table A. Table C presents 194 data items for cities (incorporated places with 25,000 or more inhabitants in 1990). Table C differs somewhat in content from tables A and B; as examples, climate data, shown for cities, are not available for counties and physician data, shown for counties, are not available for cities. Table D presents 1990 population and two 1990 census income items for places with 2,500 or more inhabitants in 1990. This table includes both incorporated places and census designated places for all States and minor civil divisions (MCD’s) for the following 12 States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin.

Three tables of area rankings are featured in this publication which highlight various data series. Table 1 presents the top 25 counties in the country for 64 variables along with the United States total for comparison. Table 2 shows the top county in each state for 24 different data items. Table 3 presents 36 data items and rankings for the 77 cities with a 1992 population of 200,000 or more.

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describe the content of the database (Appendix D)

Table 1. Top 25 County Rankings by Selected Subject

Table 2. Highest Ranking County in Each State by Selected Subject

Table 3. Cities with 200,000 or More Population Ranked by Selected Subject

Table A: States

Table B: Counties

Table C: Cities 25,000 or More

Table D: Places 2,500 or More

Appendix A. Source of Notes and Explanations

Appendix B. Geographic Information

Appendix C. County Maps, by State

Appendix D. Table Outlines

A dash "-" represents zero.

"D" means data withheld to avoid disclosure of information pertaining to a specific organization or individual.

"NA" means not available

The following terms are also used throughout this publication:

• An average is a number or value that is used to represent the "typical value" of a group of members. It is a measure of central tendency for a group of members.
• The mean is an average derived by summing the individual item values of a particular group and dividing the total by the number of items, e.g., average travel time to work. It is often referred to simply as the "mean" or "average".
• The median of a group is the middle number or value when each item in the group is arranged according to size, e.g., median household income. It generally has the same number of items above it or below it.
• A rate is a quantity or amount of an item measured in relation to a number of units of another item, e.g., the number of births per 1,000 resident population. The birth rate is obtained by dividing the number of births for a given year by the resident population as of a specified date and multiplying the result by 1,000.
• Per capita is a rate per individual, e.g., per capita taxes.

"S" means data suppressed; does not meet publication standards.

"X" means not applicable.

"Z" represents a number or percent that rounds to less than half the unit of measure shown.

Needs the source of data for sampling methods.

All data from Censuses, surveys, or administrative records are subject to error arising from a number of factors: sampling variability (for statistics based on samples), reporting errors in the data for individual units, incomplete coverage, nonresponse, imputations, and processing error.

For some items, details may not add to the totals shown: for example, a State total may differ from the sum of its component counties, or the United States total may differ from the sum of total 50 States and the District of Columbia. Rounding of the data may be the reason for these occurrences, or the total may include values that could not be allocated to the lower geographic levels shown. Other examples are generally footnoted in the tables or explained in the text.

The Bureau of the Census can not accept the responsibility for the accuracy or limitations of the data presented in this publication other than for those it collects. The responsibility for selection of the material and for proper presentation, however, rests with the Bureau.