2020 Census Urban Areas

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Updated Oct 17, 2026

About this dataset

The US Census designates certain blocks as urban based on certain criteria (found <a href='https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/reference/ua/Census_UA_CritDiff_2010_2020.pdf' target='_blank' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'>here</a>). This layer includes polygons that represent all of the census blocks that were designated as urban as of 2020.

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Feature Collection
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Excel
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GeoPackage
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SQLite Geodatabase
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2020 Census Urban Areas

About this dataset

Data and resources (11)

ArcGIS Hub Dataset

ArcGIS GeoService

CSV

Shapefile

GeoJSON

KML

File Geodatabase

Feature Collection

Excel

GeoPackage

SQLite Geodatabase