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2020 Adjusted Urban Area Boundaries

Datathon 2025

Updated Oct 17, 2026

About this dataset

<div style='text-align:Left;'><p><strong>Note: T</strong><span><strong>hese are not official legal boundaries and are not to be used for any funding or population estimates. They are only meant for a visualization of general design guidelines (inside the boundary should be roads designed as urban, outside as rural).</strong></span></p><p>These areas are built on the 2020 Census-designated urban areas and represent current urban areas in Virginia.<br />&nbsp;</p><p>Block data from 2022 Tiger line data.</p><p>Population and Housing data from decennial 2020 census.</p><p>Source: https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files.</p><p>Please contact&nbsp;<u>ian.turner@vdot.virginia.gov</u>&nbsp;with any questions.</p></div>

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