Census county division

A Census County Division (CCD) is a subdivision of a county used by the United States Census Bureau for the purpose of presenting statistical data. A CCD is a relatively permanent statistical area delineated cooperatively by the Census Bureau and state and local government authorities. CCDs are defined in 21 states that do not have well-defined and stable minor civil divisions (MCDs), such as townships, with local governmental purposes, or where the MCDs are deemed to be "unsatisfactory for the collection, presentation, and analysis of census statistics".[1][2]

Census 2000 Block Map of DeKalb County, Georgia, showing the county's five CCDs (delineated by the dark lines).

CCDs are not governmental units and have no legal or governmental functions. Their boundaries usually follow visible features, such as roads, railroads, streams, power transmission lines, or mountain ridges, and coincide with the boundaries of census tracts. CCDs do not span county lines. Each CCD is given a name based on the name of the largest population center in the area, a prominent geographic feature, the county name, or another well-known local name that identifies its location.[1][2]

CCDs were first implemented for tabulation of 1950 Census data from the state of Washington. As of the 2010 census, a total of 5,191 CCDs were defined in 20 states.[2]

State Number of CCDs (2010)[2]
Alabama 390
Arizona 80
California 397
Colorado 209
Delaware 27
Florida 316
Georgia 586
Hawaii 44
Idaho 170
Kentucky 493
Montana 194
Nevada 71
New Mexico 130
Oklahoma 305
Oregon 212
South Carolina 299
Texas 862
Utah 93
Washington 242
Wyoming 71

North Dakota briefly adopted CCDs for the 1970 Census, but soon returned to using MCDs for subsequent censuses. The main reason for abandoning CCDs was financial. As legal units of local government, MCDs could qualify for federal revenue sharing funds, while purely statistical areas like CCDs did not.[2] In 2008, Tennessee changed from using CCDs to using MCDs, leaving 20 states using CCDs as of the 2010 census.[3]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 County Subdivisions Cartographic Boundary Files Descriptions and Metadata, U.S. Census Bureau website, accessed August 16, 2008
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "2010 Census Geographic Entity Tallies by State and Type - Geography - U.S. Census Bureau". Retrieved 2016-04-13.
  3. ↑ U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division (February 2011). "Geographic Terms and Concepts - County Subdivision". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on July 9, 2012. Retrieved July 10, 2012.

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