List of U.S. Geographies

Data - U.S.

List of all Geographies

When working with U.S. Regional data, geographies can be confusing. For instance, the below list of all Census geographies is given below, from this website.

Code
data <- "https://walkerke.github.io/tidycensus/articles/basic-usage.html" %>%
  read_html %>%
  html_table(header = TRUE, fill = TRUE)

data[[1]] %>%
  as.tibble %>%
  {if (is_html_output()) datatable(., filter = 'top', rownames = F) else .}

CBSAs

(ref:wikipedia-CBSA) Map of CBSAs (Source: Wikipedia). Click here to enlarge.

Code
include_graphics2("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Metropolitan_and_Micropolitan_Statistical_Areas_%28CBSAs%29_of_the_United_States_and_Puerto_Rico%2C_Feb_2013.gif/1920px-Metropolitan_and_Micropolitan_Statistical_Areas_%28CBSAs%29_of_the_United_States_and_Puerto_Rico%2C_Feb_2013.gif")

(ref:wikipedia-CBSA)

Counties

(ref:wikipedia-counties) Map of Counties (Source: Wikipedia). Click here to enlarge.

Code
include_graphics2("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Map_of_USA_with_county_outlines.png")

(ref:wikipedia-counties)