Census Block Groups - City of Newton

Description:

A polygon coverage of the boundaries of the U.S. Census Bureau's block groups and some appended demographic information for Newton, Massachusetts. Currently the most recent information is for the 1990 census. A census Block Group is a statistical subdivision of a census Tract consisting of a cluster of census blocks having the same first digit of their identifying numbers within that tract. Example, Block Group 3 contains all blocks from 3000-3999.

Creator:

City of Newton GIS

Provider:

Harvard

Resource Class:

Datasets

Resource Type:

Polygon data

Subject:

boundaries, society, Municipal, Census, Population, Demographic surveys, and Households

Temporal Coverage:

1990

Spatial Coverage:

Newton and Massachusetts

Access Rights:

Restricted

Format:

Shapefile