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

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How to use census tract in a sentence

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.
He Tore Down Motels Where Poor Residents Lived During a Housing Crisis. City Leaders Did Nothing.|by Anjeanette Damon, photography by David Calvert, special to ProPublica|November 12, 2021|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.
Resist The Pundits: What The 2021 Elections Can (And Can’t) Tell Us About 2022|Geoffrey Skelley (geoffrey.skelley@abc.com)|November 11, 2021|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.
Modern capitalism is inseparable from surveillance|Josh Lauer, Kenneth Lipartito|September 22, 2021|Washington Post
In California, mobile homes are disproportionately located in the hottest census tracts.
Postcard From Thermal: Surviving the Climate Gap in Eastern Coachella Valley|by Elizabeth Weil and Mauricio Rodríguez Pons|August 17, 2021|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.
The U.S. Is Increasingly Diverse, So Why Is Segregation Getting Worse?|Alana Semuels|June 21, 2021|Time