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

The solar and lithium-ion battery project will be built within a census tract where more than a third of residents live in poverty — double the rate in Fresno County as a whole.

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“If the country continues on this path, the SVI for every single county and census tract is going to be maxed out,” climatologist Becky Bollinger wrote on Bluesky.

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West of Lake, Black and Latino residents made up a majority of the population in every Altadena census tract.

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Times journalists worked with the Los Angeles County Internal Services Department to access both the decennial Census and the American Community Survey for the most detailed data possible on Census tract level for Los Angeles.

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The top census tract for kids is in Sammamish and includes the Lawson Park neighborhood.

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