RE: [CTPP] Fed Register notice on Proposed Urban Area Criteria forthe2010 Census

For 2000, the Census Bureau started with residential density at the BLOCK GROUP level, and they are proposing using tracts as the starting point to establish the core instead. In the archived webinar, there is a slide that shows that the amount of the population covered using tracts as the starting geographic unit is nearly the same as when using block groups as the starting geographic unit. -----Original Message----- From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net on behalf of Don Cooper Sent: Tue 8/24/2010 11:27 AM To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net Subject: RE: [CTPP] Fed Register notice on Proposed Urban Area Criteria forthe2010 Census I am intrigued about "Use of census tracts as analysis units in the initial phase of delineation". What does this mean? Will it mean that the core of an urban area has to be a tract with at least 1000 pop/sq mile? Instead of a block? If so, I can see some urban areas disapearing. Donald Cooper Senior Transportation Planner Bangor Area Comprehensive Transportation System 40 Harlow Street Bangor Maine 04401 Tel (207) 942-6389 Fax (207) 942-3548 "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future" - Neils Bohr -----Original Message----- From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces@chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Elaine.Murakami(a)dot.gov Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 11:05 AM To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net Cc: joseph.hausman(a)dot.gov; David.Winter(a)dot.gov; Paul.Svercl(a)dot.gov Subject: [CTPP] Fed Register notice on Proposed Urban Area Criteria for the2010 Census The Federal Register notice from the Census Bureau is now posted. The due date for comments is November 22. You may want to listen to Mike Ratcliffe's web presentation from June 11, 2010 that is available at: http://ctpp.transportation.org/Pages/webinardirectory.aspx ---- The Census Bureau announces publication of the "Proposed Urban Area Criteria for the 2010 Census" in the Federal Register of August 24, 2010, available on the Federal Register's website at <http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/>. The Census Bureau is seeking public comment on these proposed criteria. Comments, suggestions, or recommendations regarding the criteria should be submitted in writing, no later than November 22, 2010, to Timothy Trainor, Chief, Geography Division, U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, DC 20233-7400. The Census Bureau's urban-rural classification is fundamentally a delineation of geographical areas, identifying individual urbanized areas of 50,000 or more people and urban clusters of at least 2,500 and less than 50,000 people; "rural" encompasses all population and territory not included in urban areas. The Census Bureau's urban areas represent densely developed territory, and encompass residential, commercial, and other non-residential urban land uses. Additional information about the Census Bureau's urban-rural classification is available on the Census Bureau's website at <http://www.census.gov/geo/www/ua/urbanruralclass.html>. The proposed urban area criteria for the 2010 Census as well as summaries of the proposed changes, are available on the Census Bureau's website at < http://www.census.gov/geo/www/ua/2010urbanruralclass.html>gt;. Changes proposed for the 2010 Census include: * Use of census tracts as analysis units in the initial phase of delineation * Potential return to a maximum jump distance of 1.5 miles (the distance was increased to 2.5 miles in the Census 2000 criteria). * Use of land use/land cover data to identify territory containing non-residential urban land uses or land cover that restricts urban development, such as marshland and wetlands. * Lowering the minimum number of enplanements (departing passengers) from 10,000 to 2,500 to qualify airports for inclusion in urban areas. * Elimination of the central place concept. * Requirement that, in addition to at least 2,500 total population, an area must contain at least 1,500 persons residing outside institutional group quarters to qualify as urban. * Splitting urban agglomerations of 1,000,000 or more population based on metropolitan statistical area boundaries, or, in New England, along metropolitan New England city and town area boundaries. For further information about the Census Bureau urban-rural classification, or the proposed criteria for the 2010 Census, please contact Vincent Osier, Chief, Geographic Standards and Criteria Branch, Geography Division, U.S. Census Bureau, via e-mail at vincent.osier(a)census.gov or telephone at 301-763-9039. _______________________________________________ ctpp-news mailing list ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net http://www.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/ctpp-news _______________________________________________ ctpp-news mailing list ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net http://www.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/ctpp-news