U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography
Division
2017
TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2017, nation, U.S., Current Metropolitan Statistical Area/Micropolitan Statistical Area (CBSA) National
2017
vector digital data
http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2017/CBSA/tl_2017_us_cbsa.zip
The TIGER/Line shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line shapefile is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation.
Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas are together termed Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) and are defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and consist of the county or counties or equivalent entities associated with at least one urban core (urbanized area or urban cluster) of at least 10,000 population, plus adjacent counties having a high degree of social and economic integration with the core as measured through commuting ties with the counties containing the core. Categories of CBSAs are: Metropolitan Statistical Areas, based on urbanized areas of 50,000 or more population; and Micropolitan Statistical Areas, based on urban clusters of at least 10,000 population but less than 50,000 population.
Boundaries are those defined by OMB based on the 2010 Census, published in 2013, and updated in 2015.
In order for others to use the information in the Census MAF/TIGER database in a geographic information system (GIS) or for other geographic applications, the Census Bureau releases to the public extracts of the database in the form of TIGER/Line Shapefiles.
201606
201705
publication date
No changes or updates will be made to this version of the TIGER/Line Shapefiles. Future releases of TIGER/Line Shapefiles will reflect updates made to the Census MAF/TIGER database.
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179.859681
71.439786
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NGDA Portfolio Themes
NGDA
Governmental Units and Administrative and Statistical Boundaries Theme
National Geospatial Data Asset
None
Nation
Polygon
Core Based Statistical Area
CBSA
ISO 19115 Topic Categories
Boundaries
ANSI INCITS 38:2009 (Formerly FIPS 5-2),
ANSI INCITS 31:2009 (Formerly FIPS 6-4),ANSI
INCITS 454:2009 (Formerly FIPS 8-6), ANSI INCITS
455:2009(Formerly FIPS 9-1), ANSI INCITS 446:2008 (Geographic Names Information System (GNIS))
United States
U.S.
None
The TIGER/Line Shapefile products are not copyrighted however TIGER/Line and Census TIGER are registered trademarks of the U.S. Census Bureau. These products are free to use in a product or publication, however acknowledgement must be given to the U.S. Census Bureau as the source.
The boundary information in the TIGER/Line Shapefiles are for statistical data collection and tabulation purposes only; their depiction and designation for statistical purposes does not constitute a determination of jurisdictional authority or rights of ownership or entitlement and they are not legal land descriptions.Coordinates in the TIGER/Line shapefiles have six implied decimal places, but the positional accuracy of these coordinates is not as great as the six decimal places suggest.
U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau,
Geography Division, Spatial Data Collection and Products Branch
mailing
4600 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400
Washington
DC
20233-7400
United States
301-763-1128
301-763-4710
geo.geography@census.gov
Accurate against National Standard Codes, Federal Information Processing (FIPS) and the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) at the 100% level for the codes and base names. The remaining attribute information has been examined but has not been fully tested for accuracy.
The Census Bureau performed automated tests to ensure logical consistency and limits of shapefiles. Segments making up the outer and inner boundaries of a polygon tie end-to-end to completely enclose the area. All polygons are tested for closure.
The Census Bureau uses its internally developed geographic update system to enhance and modify spatial and attribute data in the Census MAF/TIGER database. Standard geographic codes, such as FIPS codes for states, counties, municipalities, county subdivisions, places, American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian areas, and congressional districts are used when encoding spatial entities. The Census Bureau performed spatial data tests for logical consistency of the codes during the compilation of the original Census MAF/TIGER database files. Most of the codes for geographic entities except states, counties, urban areas, Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs), American Indian Areas (AIAs), and congressional districts were provided to the Census Bureau by the USGS, the agency responsible for maintaining the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). Feature attribute information has been examined but has not been fully tested for consistency.
For the TIGER/Line Shapefiles, the Point and Vector Object Count for the G-polygon SDTS Point and Vector Object Type reflects the number of records in the shapefile attribute table. For multi-polygon features, only one attribute record exists for each multi-polygon rather than one attribute record per individual G-polygon component of the multi-polygon feature. TIGER/Line Shapefile multi-polygons are an exception to the G-polygon object type classification. Therefore, when multi-polygons exist in a shapefile, the object count will be less than the actual number of G-polygons.
Data completeness of the TIGER/Line Shapefiles reflects the contents of the Census MAF/TIGER database at the time the TIGER/Line Shapefiles were created.
U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division
Unpublished material
Census MAF/TIGER database
online
201606
201705
publication date
MAF/TIGER
All line segments
TIGER/Line Shapefiles are extracted from the Census MAF/TIGER database by nation, state, county, and entity. Census MAF/TIGER data for all of the aforementioned geographic entities are then distributed among the shapefiles each containing attributes for line, polygon, or landmark geographic data.
withheld
2017
Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS), Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), and feature names.
Vector
Simple
FALSE
0
FALSE
FALSE
0.000458
0.000458
Decimal degrees
North American Datum of 1983
Geodetic Reference System 80
6378137
298.257
CBSA.shp
Current Metropolitan Statistical Area/Micropolitan Statistical Area (CBSA) National
U.S. Census Bureau
Feature Class
0
FID
FID
OID
4
0
0
Internal feature number.
Esri
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Shape
Shape
Geometry
0
0
0
Feature geometry.
Esri
Coordinates defining the features.
CSAFP
Current combined statistical area code, if applicable
The Office of Management and Budget
100
599
CSAFP
String
3
0
0
CBSAFP
Current metropolitan statistical area/micropolitan statistical area code
The Office of Management and Budget
10000
49999
CBSAFP
String
5
0
0
GEOID
Metropolitan statistical area/micropolitan statistical area identifier, metropolitan
statistical area/micropolitan statistical area code
The Office of Management and Budget
Metropolitan statistical area/micropolitan statistical area code found in CBSAFP
GEOID
String
5
0
0
NAME
Current metropolitan statistical area/micropolitan statistical area name
The Office of Management and Budget
Values for this attribute are composed of a set of metropolitan/micropolitan statistical
area names. As such, they do not exist in a known, predefined set.
NAME
String
100
0
0
NAMELSAD
Current name and the translated legal/statistical description for metropolitan
statistical area/micropolitan statistical area
The Office of Management and Budget
Current name and the translated legal/statistical area description code for
metropolitan/micropolitan area
NAMELSAD
String
100
0
0
LSAD
Current legal/statistical area description code for metropolitan statistical
area/micropolitan statistical area
U.S. Census Bureau
M1
Metro Area (suffix)
U.S. Census Bureau
M2
Micro Area (suffix)
U.S. Census Bureau
LSAD
String
2
0
0
MEMI
Current metropolitan/micropolitan status indicator
U.S. Census Bureau
1
Metropolitan
U.S. Census Bureau
2
Micropolitan
U.S. Census Bureau
MEMI
String
1
0
0
MTFCC
MAF/TIGER feature class code
U.S. Census Bureau
G3110
Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Area
U.S. Census Bureau
MTFCC
String
5
0
0
ALAND
Current land area (square meters)
U.S. Census Bureau
0
9,999,999,999,999
ALAND
Double
19
0
0
AWATER
Current water area (square meters)
U.S. Census Bureau
0
9,999,999,999,999
AWATER
Double
19
0
0
INTPTLAT
Current latitude of the internal point
U.S. Census Bureau
-90.000000
90.000000
INTPTLAT
String
11
0
0
INTPTLON
Current longitude of the internal point
U.S. Census Bureau
-180.000000
180.000000
INTPTLON
String
12
0
0
U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division, Spatial Data Collection and Products Branch
mailing
4600 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400
Washington
DC
20233-7400
United States
301-763-1128
301-763-4710
geo.geography@census.gov
No warranty, expressed or implied is made with regard to the accuracy of these data, and no liability is assumed by the U.S. Government in general or the U.S. Census Bureau in specific as to the spatial or attribute accuracy of the data. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty and no responsibility is assumed by the U.S. government in the use of these files. The boundary information in the TIGER/Line Shapefiles is for statistical data collection and tabulation purposes only; their depiction and designation for statistical purposes do not constitute a determination of jurisdictional authority or rights of ownership or entitlement and they are not legal land descriptions.
TGRSHP (compressed)
PK-ZIP, version 1.93 A or higher
http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2017/CBSA/tl_2017_us_cbsa.zip
The online copy of the TIGER/Line Shapefiles may be accessed without charge.
To obtain more information about ordering TIGER/Line Shapefiles visit http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger
The TIGER/Line shapefiles contain geographic data only and do not include display mapping software or statistical data. For information on how to use the TIGER/Line shapefile data with specific software package users shall contact the company that produced the software.
20170601
U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division, Spatial Data Collection and Products Branch
mailing
4600 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400
Washington
DC
20233-7400
United States
301-763-1128
301-763-4710
geo.geography@census.gov
FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
FGDC-STD-001-1998
20180924
11591400
1.0
FALSE
CBSA_PR
002
0.000
Geographic
GCS_North_American_1983
Angular Unit: Degree (0.017453)
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20180924
16485000
20180924
16485000
Esri ArcGIS 10.6.0.8321
CBSA_PR
The TIGER/Line shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line shapefile is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation.
Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas are together termed Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) and are defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and consist of the county or counties or equivalent entities associated with at least one urban core (urbanized area or urban cluster) of at least 10,000 population, plus adjacent counties having a high degree of social and economic integration with the core as measured through commuting ties with the counties containing the core. Categories of CBSAs are: Metropolitan Statistical Areas, based on urbanized areas of 50,000 or more population; and Micropolitan Statistical Areas, based on urban clusters of at least 10,000 population but less than 50,000 population.
Boundaries are those defined by OMB based on the 2010 Census, published in 2013, and updated in 2015.In order for others to use the information in the Census MAF/TIGER database in a geographic information system (GIS) or for other geographic applications, the Census Bureau releases to the public extracts of the database in the form of TIGER/Line Shapefiles.CBSACore Based Statistical AreaPuerto RicoCensusGeographies
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EPSG
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