Selected State-Level Variables From The 2016 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates

United States Census Bureau. 2017. "2016 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates." Accessed 18 May 2018.

State Data

State Name

USPS Abbreviation

State FIPS Code
Federal Information Processing Series/Standards code. Standardized system of numeric coding originally issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the US Department of Commerce. FIPS codes are assigned for a variety of geographic entities including American Indian and Alaska Native Areas, Hawaiian home lands, congressional districts, counties, county subdivisions, metropolitan areas, places, and states. The purpose in using FIPS codes is to improve the use of data and avoid unnecessary duplication and incompatibility in the collection, processing, and dissemination of data. FIPS codes were discontinued by NIST in 2005, but the Census Bureau continues to maintain and issue codes for the geographic entities calling them Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) codes, using the same acronym.

American Factfinder GEOID
ID code that can be used to unambiguously join with US Census Bureau data from American FactFinder.

Centroid Latitude
NAD 1983 latitude of the centroid calculated in R using the gCentroid function from the rgeos library based on the 2017 TIGER county cartographic boundary shapefile.

Centroid Longitude
NAD 1983 longitude of the centroid calculated in R using the gCentroid function from the rgeos library based on the 2017 TIGER county cartographic boundary shapefile.

TIGER Land Area Square Miles
Land area in square miles converted from the 2017 TIGER county cartographic boundary shapefile.

TIGER Water Area Square Miles
Water area in square miles converted from the 2017 TIGER county cartographic boundary shapefile.

B01003 - TOTAL POPULATION

Population

Population per SqMile

B19013 - MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS (IN 2016 INFLATION-ADJUSTED DOLLARS)

Median Household Income

S0101 - AGE AND SEX

Median Age

Percent 18 Years or Older

Age Dependency Ratio

Old Age Depend Ratio

Child Depend Ratio

S2101 - VETERAN STATUS

Percent Veterans

DP04 - SELECTED HOUSING CHARACTERISTICS

Percent House Owner-Occupied

S2503 - FINANCIAL CHARACTERISTICS

Median Month House Cost

S2701 - SELECTED CHARACTERISTICS OF HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE IN THE UNITED STATES

Percent w Health Insurance

S0501 - SELECTED CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NATIVE AND FOREIGN-BORN POPULATIONS

Percent 25+ w Bachelor Degree

CP03 - COMPARATIVE ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS

2012-2016 Mean minutes to work

2007-2011 Mean minutes to work