[UW-GIS-L] KC median income by block

[Steven Garrett]

It would appear that the Census Bureau does not provide median income at the block level. That would explain my inability to find it. 
Steven


Usually I'd have to say head over to esri's tiger/line downloads .. but 
as of yesterday, the census dept seems more on top of it:
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles/county-files?county=53033

   -Josh

Steven Garrett wrote:

> Hi all,

> I am trying to do something one would expect to be easy, but I am a 

> bit stymied. I need King County median income by census blocks (not 

> block groups). I have census blocks from the KCSF1 Geodatabase from 

> WAGDA. Median income is in SF3, Table 6 (#53001), however, SF3 in the 

> KC Geodatabase doesn't have a block layer. So I doubt it is to be 

> found there.

>

> Using the "geo within geo" function on the Census.gov American 

> FactFinder does not provide a block option and besides such inquiries 

> are limited to 7,000 and there are 24,000 blocks in King. So that is 

> also a deadend.

>

> Any ideas?

> Steven

>  

> Steven M. Garrett

> Doctoral Candidate, Geography

> Lecturer, Urban Studies

> University of Washington Tacoma

>

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