Congressional District Boundaries

A detailed summary of the Congressional District Boundary specification.

1.0 Introduction

The Congressional District boundaries are reported once per year by the United States Census. The data reflects the boundaries of electoral districts in the defined search region. The boundaries are divided up based on population. The dataset is available to download through the Urban SDK Data Hub for the years 2015 - 2020.

Census Congressional Districts Parameters: Census.gov

2.0 Data Specification

The following table is the format in which downloaded Congressional District Boundary data will be provided:

Field

Type

Description

_geoJSON

String

The GIS information required for the computer to read the mapping file.

id

Integer

The unique identifier for the school district.

Land Area

Float

Area in square miles of the boundary.

Name

String

Name of the district.

State Name

String

Name of the state the district resides in.

County_Name

String

Name of the county that the district resides in.