UCF Research Guides: Statistics, Demographics and Census: General

Measuring America: The Decennial Censuses from 1790 to 2000

Measuring America: The Decennial Censuses from 1790 to 2000
Call Number: U.S. Documents Collection C 3.2:M 46/2
provides questionnaires and instructions, plus individual histories of each census. Pages 119-124 provide tables showing the "Population Items on Principal Census Questionnaires: 1790-2000."

Enumeration Forms (IPUMS USA)
"contains facsimile copies of the enumeration forms used in the decennial census of the United States from 1860 through 2000, and the American Community Survey (2000+)."

Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920 by William Thorndale & William Dollarhide
Call Number: UCF Main Library Reference -- G1201.F7T5 1987
"shows county outline maps at ten year intervals, the old county boundaries being superimposed over the modern lines"

Census geography: Bridging data from prior years to the 2010 tract boundaries
provides "a Longitudinal Tract Data Base (LTDB), which provides public-use tools to create estimates within 2010 tract boundaries for any tract-level data (from the census or other sources) that are available for prior years as early as 1970."

Florida

Key geography counts

67 Counties
- 4,245 census tracts (2010)
  - 11,442 block groups (2010)
    - 484,481 blocks (2010)

Other Florida census geographies

20 metropolitan statistical areas, e.g., the Orlando-Kissimmee MSA encompasses all of Lake, Orange, Osceola & Seminole counties
316 county subdivisions, sometimes with names similar to places contained within them, e.g., Orange County has 6 subdivisions (Apopka CCD, East Orange CCD, Orlando CCD, Southwest Orange CCD, Union Park CCD, Winter Garden-Ocoee CCD)
920 places -- which occasionally extend across county boundaries
- 411 incorporated places, e.g., Orange County has 13 incorporated places (Apopka, Bay Lake, Belle Isle, Eatonville, Edgewood, Lake Buena Vista, Maitland, Oakland, Ocoee, Orlando, Windermere, Winter Garden, Winter Park)
  - 268 cities, 124 towns, 19 villages
- 509 census designated places, e.g., Orange County has 33 census designated places, including Alafaya, Aloma, Bithlo, Christmas, Four Corners (area includes part of Lake, Osceola, & Polk counties), Goldenrod (area includes part of Seminole County), Union Park, and University
983 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs)

Guide to Florida Census Geography
Resources for Understanding Census Bureau Geography
Census Tract Presentation (ppt)
Learn the definition and history of census tracts, how they are updated and how to compare census tract boundaries decade to decade.

Census Tract Maps