census tract

noun

1. a standard area in certain large American cities used by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for purposes of population enumeration.

Example Sentences

Reno’s downtown is in a special tax zone for low-income census tracts, a designation that can promote demolition of affordable housing in favor of investment — any investment.

From ProPublica

FiveThirtyEight’s urbanization index, a calculation of how urban or rural a county is, is the natural logarithm of the average number of people living within a five-mile radius of every census tract in that county.

From FiveThirtyEight

By the 1970s, credit agencies and marketing firms had devised much more detailed portraits of people by linking personal information to census tract data, Zip codes, standard industrial codes and Social Security numbers.

From Washington Post

In California, mobile homes are disproportionately located in the hottest census tracts.

From ProPublica

The report breaks new ground by looking at how the racial makeup of census tracts differs significantly from the racial makeup of the larger metropolitan area that surround them.

From Time