The Census Bureau has now made available the Census 2000 TIGER/Line files
and the Census 2000 Tract Relationship files. All files are now available.
This includes the first release of the Census 2000 TIGER/Line files for the
Island areas (American Samoa, Guam, Midway Islands, Northern Mariana
Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). These files will be available for
purchase from the Census Bureau either on DVD (1 disk) or CD-ROM (7 disks).
Both the DVD and the CD-ROMs will be created as "one-off" copies as they are
ordered.
The Census 2000 TIGER/Line files may be downloaded from:
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tiger2k/tgr2000.html
Please be aware that there are some differences between this version and the
Redistricting Census 2000 TIGER/Line files. This is the version that
contains the ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) and the address ranges based
upon the final Census 2000 Master Address File. It also contains the
correct boundaries for the Congressional Districts for the 106th Congress.
The document
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tiger2k/rdchg2k.txt
contains a description of all the corrections that were made to the Census
2000 TIGER/Line files from the Redistricting version.
The Census 2000 Tract Relationship files may be downloaded from:
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/relate/rel_tract.html
If you have any questions, please send them to:
geography(a)geo.census.gov
Bob LaMacchia
Geography Division
U. S. Census Bureau
(301) 457-1022
rlamacchia(a)geo.census.gov