PRB-Total / MappingCensusDataBlog

Short tutorial on using R for spatial analysis and web mapping of U.S. Census Bureau data.

Mapping Census Data in R

Goal

Efficiently create self-contained web-ready interactive maps of U.S. Census data using R. In the tutorial, I look at median household income across census tracts in Washington, D.C.

Data Source

Data is from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS, 5-year, 2019). It is extracted from the U.S. Census Bureau API using tidycensus. The table requested is B19013, which provides a measure of median household income in the past 12 months.

Files

CensusDataMappingWithR.r

• Annotated code for the analysis presented in the tutorial

ACSMedIncomeData2019.csv

• The data acquired from the U.S. Census Bureau API used for the analysis

Libraries Used

The code requires the following libraries be installed:

• tidyverse
• tidycensus
• mapview
• leaflet
• htmltools
• htmlwidgets

Links

PRB Webpage