Land area (sq. km) in United States was reported at 9147420 sq. Km in 2022, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. United States - Land area (sq. km) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on June of 2025.

The statistic shows the 30 largest countries in the world by area. Russia is the largest country by far, with a total area of about 17 million square kilometers.

Population of Russia

Despite its large area, Russia - nowadays the largest country in the world - has a relatively small total population. However, its population is still rather large in numbers in comparison to those of other countries. In mid-2014, it was ranked ninth on a list of countries with the largest population, a ranking led by China with a population of over 1.37 billion people. In 2015, the estimated total population of Russia amounted to around 146 million people. The aforementioned low population density in Russia is a result of its vast landmass; in 2014, there were only around 8.78 inhabitants per square kilometer living in the country. Most of the Russian population lives in the nation’s capital and largest city, Moscow: In 2015, over 12 million people lived in the metropolis.

The statistic shows the largest countries in South America, based on land area. Brazil is the largest country by far, with a total area of over 8.5 million square kilometers, followed by Argentina, with almost 2.8 million square kilometers.

United States US: Land Area data was reported at 9,147,420.000 sq km in 2017. This stayed constant from the previous number of 9,147,420.000 sq km for 2016. United States US: Land Area data is updated yearly, averaging 9,158,960.000 sq km from Dec 1961 (Median) to 2017, with 57 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 9,161,920.000 sq km in 2007 and a record low of 9,147,420.000 sq km in 2017. United States US: Land Area data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.World Bank.WDI: Land Use, Protected Areas and National Wealth. Land area is a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes.; ; Food and Agriculture Organization, electronic files and web site.; Sum;

In 2023, Washington, D.C. had the highest population density in the United States, with 11,130.69 people per square mile. As a whole, there were about 94.83 residents per square mile in the U.S., and Alaska was the state with the lowest population density, with 1.29 residents per square mile. The problem of population density Simply put, population density is the population of a country divided by the area of the country. While this can be an interesting measure of how many people live in a country and how large the country is, it does not account for the degree of urbanization, or the share of people who live in urban centers. For example, Russia is the largest country in the world and has a comparatively low population, so its population density is very low. However, much of the country is uninhabited, so cities in Russia are much more densely populated than the rest of the country. Urbanization in the United States While the United States is not very densely populated compared to other countries, its population density has increased significantly over the past few decades. The degree of urbanization has also increased, and well over half of the population lives in urban centers.

United States US: Urban Land Area data was reported at 802,053.592 sq km in 2010. This stayed constant from the previous number of 802,053.592 sq km for 2000. United States US: Urban Land Area data is updated yearly, averaging 802,053.592 sq km from Dec 1990 (Median) to 2010, with 3 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 802,053.592 sq km in 2010 and a record low of 802,053.592 sq km in 2010. United States US: Urban Land Area data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.World Bank: Land Use, Protected Areas and National Wealth. Urban land area in square kilometers, based on a combination of population counts (persons), settlement points, and the presence of Nighttime Lights. Areas are defined as urban where contiguous lighted cells from the Nighttime Lights or approximated urban extents based on buffered settlement points for which the total population is greater than 5,000 persons.; ; Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University. 2013. Urban-Rural Population and Land Area Estimates Version 2. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/lecz-urban-rural-population-land-area-estimates-v2.; Sum;

We developed a model for analyzing multi-year demographic data for long-lived animals and used data from a population of Agassiz’s desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) at the Desert Tortoise Research Natural Area in the western Mojave Desert of California, USA, as a case study. The study area was 7.77 square kilometers and included two locations: inside and outside the fenced boundary. The wildlife-permeable, protective fence was designed to prevent entry from vehicle users and sheep grazing. We collected mark-recapture data from 1,123 tortoises during 7 annual surveys consisting of two censuses each over a 34-year period. We used a Bayesian modeling framework to develop a multistate Jolly-Seber model because of its ability to handle unobserved (latent) states and modified this model to incorporate the additional data from non-survey years. For this model we incorporated 3 size-age states (juvenile, immature, adult), sex (female, male), two location states (inside and outside the fenced boundary) and 3 survival states (not-yet-entered, entered/alive, and dead/removed). We calculated population densities and estimated probabilities of growth of the tortoises from one size-age state to a larger size-age state, survival after 1 year and 5 years, and detection. Our results show a declining population with low estimates for survival after 1 year and 5 years. The probability for tortoises to move from outside to inside the boundary fence was greater than for tortoises to move from inside the fence to outside. The probability for detecting tortoises differed by size-age state and was lowest for the smallest tortoises and highest for the adult tortoises. The framework for the model can be used to analyze other animal populations where vital rates are expected to vary depending on multiple individual states. The model was incorporated into the manuscript that included several other databases for publication in Wildlife Monographs in 2020 by Berry et al.

The statistic shows the largest countries in Central America, based on land area. Nicaragua is the largest country in the subregion, with a total area of over 130 thousand square kilometers, followed by Honduras, with more than 112 thousand square kilometers.

Based on land area, Brazil is the largest country in Latin America by far, with a total area of over 8.5 million square kilometers. Argentina follows with almost 2.8 million square kilometers. Cuba, whose surface area extends over almost 111,000 square kilometers, is the Caribbean country with the largest territory.

Brazil: a country with a lot to offer

Brazil's borders reach nearly half of the South American subcontinent, making it the fifth-largest country in the world and the third-largest country in the Western Hemisphere. Along with its landmass, Brazil also boasts the largest population and economy in the region. Although Brasília is the capital, the most significant portion of the country's population is concentrated along its coastline in the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

South America: a region of extreme geographic variation

With the Andes mountain range in the West, the Amazon Rainforest in the East, the Equator in the North, and Cape Horn as the Southern-most continental tip, South America has some of the most diverse climatic and ecological terrains in the world. At its core, its biodiversity can largely be attributed to the Amazon, the world's largest tropical rainforest, and the Amazon river, the world's largest river. However, with this incredible wealth of ecology also comes great responsibility. In the past decade, roughly 80,000 square kilometers of the Brazilian Amazon were destroyed. And, as of late 2019, there were at least 1,000 threatened species in Brazil alone.

This layer was developed by the Research & Analytics Group of the Atlanta Regional Commission, using data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey 5-year estimates for 2013-2017, to show population by race/ethnicity and change data by Regional Commission in the Atlanta region. The user should note that American Community Survey data represent estimates derived from a surveyed sample of the population, which creates some level of uncertainty, as opposed to an exact measure of the entire population (the full census count is only conducted once every 10 years and does not cover as many detailed characteristics of the population). Therefore, any measure reported by ACS should not be taken as an exact number – this is why a corresponding margin of error (MOE) is also given for ACS measures. The size of the MOE relative to its corresponding estimate value provides an indication of confidence in the accuracy of each estimate. Each MOE is expressed in the same units as its corresponding measure; for example, if the estimate value is expressed as a number, then its MOE will also be a number; if the estimate value is expressed as a percent, then its MOE will also be a percent. The user should also note that for relatively small geographic areas, such as census tracts shown here, ACS only releases combined 5-year estimates, meaning these estimates represent rolling averages of survey results that were collected over a 5-year span (in this case 2013-2017). Therefore, these data do not represent any one specific point in time or even one specific year. For geographic areas with larger populations, 3-year and 1-year estimates are also available. For further explanation of ACS estimates and margin of error, visit Census ACS website. Naming conventions: Prefixes:NoneCountpPercentrRatemMedianaMean (average)tAggregate (total)chChange in absolute terms (value in t2 - value in t1)pchPercent change ((value in t2 - value in t1) / value in t1)chpChange in percent (percent in t2 - percent in t1)Suffixes:NoneChange over two periods_eEstimate from most recent ACS_mMargin of Error from most recent ACS_00Decennial 2000 Attributes: SumLevelSummary level of geographic unit (e.g., County, Tract, NSA, NPU, DSNI, SuperDistrict, etc)GEOIDCensus tract Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) code NAMEName of geographic unitPlanning_RegionPlanning region designation for ARC purposesAcresTotal area within the tract (in acres)SqMiTotal area within the tract (in square miles)CountyCounty identifier (combination of Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) codes for state and county)CountyNameCounty NameTotPop_e# Total population, 2017TotPop_m# Total population, 2017 (MOE)Hisp_e# Hispanic or Latino (of any race), 2017Hisp_m# Hispanic or Latino (of any race), 2017 (MOE)pHisp_e% Hispanic or Latino (of any race), 2017pHisp_m% Hispanic or Latino (of any race), 2017 (MOE)Not_Hisp_e# Not Hispanic or Latino, 2017Not_Hisp_m# Not Hispanic or Latino, 2017 (MOE)pNot_Hisp_e% Not Hispanic or Latino, 2017pNot_Hisp_m% Not Hispanic or Latino, 2017 (MOE)NHWhite_e# Not Hispanic, White alone, 2017NHWhite_m# Not Hispanic, White alone, 2017 (MOE)pNHWhite_e% Not Hispanic, White alone, 2017pNHWhite_m% Not Hispanic, White alone, 2017 (MOE)NHBlack_e# Not Hispanic, Black or African American alone, 2017NHBlack_m# Not Hispanic, Black or African American alone, 2017 (MOE)pNHBlack_e% Not Hispanic, Black or African American alone, 2017pNHBlack_m% Not Hispanic, Black or African American alone, 2017 (MOE)NH_AmInd_e# Not Hispanic, American Indian and Alaska Native alone, 2017NH_AmInd_m# Not Hispanic, American Indian and Alaska Native alone, 2017 (MOE)pNH_AmInd_e% Not Hispanic, American Indian and Alaska Native alone, 2017pNH_AmInd_m% Not Hispanic, American Indian and Alaska Native alone, 2017 (MOE)NH_Asian_e# Not Hispanic, Asian alone, 2017NH_Asian_m# Not Hispanic, Asian alone, 2017 (MOE)pNH_Asian_e% Not Hispanic, Asian alone, 2017pNH_Asian_m% Not Hispanic, Asian alone, 2017 (MOE)NH_PacIsl_e# Not Hispanic, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, 2017NH_PacIsl_m# Not Hispanic, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, 2017 (MOE)pNH_PacIsl_e% Not Hispanic, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, 2017pNH_PacIsl_m% Not Hispanic, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, 2017 (MOE)NH_OthRace_e# Not Hispanic, some other race alone, 2017NH_OthRace_m# Not Hispanic, some other race alone, 2017 (MOE)pNH_OthRace_e% Not Hispanic, some other race alone, 2017pNH_OthRace_m% Not Hispanic, some other race alone, 2017 (MOE)NH_TwoRace_e# Not Hispanic, two or more races, 2017NH_TwoRace_m# Not Hispanic, two or more races, 2017 (MOE)pNH_TwoRace_e% Not Hispanic, two or more races, 2017pNH_TwoRace_m% Not Hispanic, two or more races, 2017 (MOE)NH_AsianPI_e# Non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander, 2017NH_AsianPI_m# Non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander, 2017 (MOE)pNH_AsianPI_e% Non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander, 2017pNH_AsianPI_m% Non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander, 2017 (MOE)NH_Other_e# Non-Hispanic other (Native American, other one race, two or more races), 2017NH_Other_m# Non-Hispanic other (Native American, other one race, two or more races), 2017 (MOE)pNH_Other_e% Non-Hispanic other (Native American, other one race, two or more races), 2017pNH_Other_m% Non-Hispanic other (Native American, other one race, two or more races), 2017 (MOE)last_edited_dateLast date the feature was edited by ARC Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Atlanta Regional CommissionDate: 2013-2017 For additional information, please visit the Census ACS website.

Road density of United States of America rose by 0.25% from 66.6 km/100 sq.km in 2010 to 66.7 km/100 sq.km in 2011. Since the 1.77% decline in 2008, road density went up by 0.85% in 2011. Road density is the ratio of the length of the country's total road network to the country's land area. The road network includes all roads in the country: motorways, highways, main or national roads, secondary or regional roads, and other urban and rural roads.

This statistics shows a list of the top 20 largest-metropolitan areas in the United States in 2010, by land area. Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario in California was ranked first enclosing an area of 70,612 square kilometers.

This layer was developed by the Research & Analytics Group of the Atlanta Regional Commission, using data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey 5-year estimates for 2013-2017, to show the birth and citizenship status by county in the Atlanta region.

The user should note that American Community Survey data represent estimates derived from a surveyed sample of the population, which creates some level of uncertainty, as opposed to an exact measure of the entire population (the full census count is only conducted once every 10 years and does not cover as many detailed characteristics of the population). Therefore, any measure reported by ACS should not be taken as an exact number – this is why a corresponding margin of error (MOE) is also given for ACS measures. The size of the MOE relative to its corresponding estimate value provides an indication of confidence in the accuracy of each estimate. Each MOE is expressed in the same units as its corresponding measure; for example, if the estimate value is expressed as a number, then its MOE will also be a number; if the estimate value is expressed as a percent, then its MOE will also be a percent.

The user should also note that for relatively small geographic areas, such as census tracts shown here, ACS only releases combined 5-year estimates, meaning these estimates represent rolling averages of survey results that were collected over a 5-year span (in this case 2013-2017). Therefore, these data do not represent any one specific point in time or even one specific year. For geographic areas with larger populations, 3-year and 1-year estimates are also available.

For further explanation of ACS estimates and margin of error, visit Census ACS website.

Naming conventions:

Prefixes:

None

Count

p

Percent

r

Rate

m

Median

a

Mean (average)

t

Aggregate (total)

ch

Change in absolute terms (value in t2 - value in t1)

pch

Percent change ((value in t2 - value in t1) / value in t1)

chp

Change in percent (percent in t2 - percent in t1)

Suffixes:

None

Change over two periods

_e

Estimate from most recent ACS

_m

Margin of Error from most recent ACS

_00

Decennial 2000

Attributes:

SumLevel

Summary level of geographic unit (e.g., County, Tract, NSA, NPU, DSNI, Super District, etc)

GEOID

Census tract Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) code

NAME

Name of geographic unit

Planning_Region

Planning region designation for ARC purposes

Acres

Total area within the tract (in acres)

SqMi

Total area within the tract (in square miles)

County

County identifier (combination of Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) codes for state and county)

CountyName

County Name

TotPop_e

# Total population, 2017

TotPop_m

# Total population, 2017 (MOE)

Native_e

# U.S. Native, 2017

Native_m

# U.S. Native, 2017 (MOE)

pNative_e

% U.S. Native, 2017

pNative_m

% U.S. Native, 2017 (MOE)

BornUS_e

# Born in the United States, 2017

BornUS_m

# Born in the United States, 2017 (MOE)

pBornUS_e

% Born in the United States, 2017

pBornUS_m

% Born in the United States, 2017 (MOE)

BornState_e

# Born in state of residence, 2017

BornState_m

# Born in state of residence, 2017 (MOE)

pBornState_e

% Born in state of residence, 2017

pBornState_m

% Born in state of residence, 2017 (MOE)

BornDiffState_e

# Born in different state, 2017

BornDiffState_m

# Born in different state, 2017 (MOE)

pBornDiffState_e

% Born in different state, 2017

pBornDiffState_m

% Born in different state, 2017 (MOE)

BornTerr_e

# Born in Puerto Rico, U.S. Island Areas, or born abroad to American parent(s), 2017

BornTerr_m

# Born in Puerto Rico, U.S. Island Areas, or born abroad to American parent(s), 2017 (MOE)

pBornTerr_e

% Born in Puerto Rico, U.S. Island Areas, or born abroad to American parent(s), 2017

pBornTerr_m

% Born in Puerto Rico, U.S. Island Areas, or born abroad to American parent(s), 2017 (MOE)

ForBorn_e

# Foreign born, 2017

ForBorn_m

# Foreign born, 2017 (MOE)

pForBorn_e

% Foreign born, 2017

pForBorn_m

% Foreign born, 2017 (MOE)

Naturalized_e

# Naturalized U.S. citizen, 2017

Naturalized_m

# Naturalized U.S. citizen, 2017 (MOE)

pNaturalized_e

% Naturalized U.S. citizen, 2017

pNaturalized_m

% Naturalized U.S. citizen, 2017 (MOE)

NotNaturalized_e

# Not a U.S. citizen, 2017

NotNaturalized_m

# Not a U.S. citizen, 2017 (MOE)

pNotNaturalized_e

% Not a U.S. citizen, 2017

pNotNaturalized_m

% Not a U.S. citizen, 2017 (MOE)

last_edited_date

Last date the feature was edited by ARC

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Atlanta Regional Commission

Date: 2013-2017

For additional information, please visit the Census ACS website.

The United States and its territories have a total area of more than 3.8 million square miles - of this, 269,717 square miles (around seven percent of the total) is made up of water area, such as rivers, lakes, and inlets, as well as territorial waters along the coast.

Alaska, the largest state, has the largest water area by a significant margin, at almost 95,000 square miles (35 percent of the country's total). This is followed by Michigan, which has over 40,000 square miles of water area - the majority of this comes form the Great Lakes, as large shares of Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, and Lake Superior fall within Michigan's boundaries.

The TIGER/Line shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line shapefile is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. Census Blocks are statistical areas bounded on all sides by visible features, such as streets, roads, streams, and railroad tracks, and/or by nonvisible boundaries such as city, town, township, and county limits, and short line-of-sight extensions of streets and roads. Census blocks are relatively small in area; for example, a block in a city bounded by streets. However, census blocks in remote areas are often large and irregular and may even be many square miles in area. A common misunderstanding is that data users think census blocks are used geographically to build all other census geographic areas, rather all other census geographic areas are updated and then used as the primary constraints, along with roads and water features, to delineate the tabulation blocks. As a result, all 2020 Census blocks nest within every other 2020 Census geographic area, so that Census Bureau statistical data can be tabulated at the block level and aggregated up to the appropriate geographic areas. Census blocks cover all territory in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas (American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). Blocks are the smallest geographic areas for which the Census Bureau publishes data from the decennial census. A block may consist of one or more faces.

Lake Superior is geographically located between Canada and the United States and accounts for the largest surface area among the Great Lakes in North America, with approximately 82,000 square kilometers. Collectively, the Great Lakes are the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth by size.

The Amazon extends for approximately 8.4 million square kilometers, across nine South American countries. Nearly two thirds of its land area is located in Brazil. Peru and Bolivia follow, with around 11 and eight percent shares of the Amazon land area, respectively.

This layer was developed by the Research & Analytics Group of the Atlanta Regional Commission, using data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey 5-year estimates for 2013-2017, to show population by race/ethnicity and change data by Westside Future Fund in the Atlanta region. The user should note that American Community Survey data represent estimates derived from a surveyed sample of the population, which creates some level of uncertainty, as opposed to an exact measure of the entire population (the full census count is only conducted once every 10 years and does not cover as many detailed characteristics of the population). Therefore, any measure reported by ACS should not be taken as an exact number – this is why a corresponding margin of error (MOE) is also given for ACS measures. The size of the MOE relative to its corresponding estimate value provides an indication of confidence in the accuracy of each estimate. Each MOE is expressed in the same units as its corresponding measure; for example, if the estimate value is expressed as a number, then its MOE will also be a number; if the estimate value is expressed as a percent, then its MOE will also be a percent. The user should also note that for relatively small geographic areas, such as census tracts shown here, ACS only releases combined 5-year estimates, meaning these estimates represent rolling averages of survey results that were collected over a 5-year span (in this case 2013-2017). Therefore, these data do not represent any one specific point in time or even one specific year. For geographic areas with larger populations, 3-year and 1-year estimates are also available. For further explanation of ACS estimates and margin of error, visit Census ACS website. Naming conventions: Prefixes:NoneCountpPercentrRatemMedianaMean (average)tAggregate (total)chChange in absolute terms (value in t2 - value in t1)pchPercent change ((value in t2 - value in t1) / value in t1)chpChange in percent (percent in t2 - percent in t1)Suffixes:NoneChange over two periods_eEstimate from most recent ACS_mMargin of Error from most recent ACS_00Decennial 2000 Attributes: SumLevelSummary level of geographic unit (e.g., County, Tract, NSA, NPU, DSNI, SuperDistrict, etc)GEOIDCensus tract Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) code NAMEName of geographic unitPlanning_RegionPlanning region designation for ARC purposesAcresTotal area within the tract (in acres)SqMiTotal area within the tract (in square miles)CountyCounty identifier (combination of Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) codes for state and county)CountyNameCounty NameTotPop_e# Total population, 2017TotPop_m# Total population, 2017 (MOE)Hisp_e# Hispanic or Latino (of any race), 2017Hisp_m# Hispanic or Latino (of any race), 2017 (MOE)pHisp_e% Hispanic or Latino (of any race), 2017pHisp_m% Hispanic or Latino (of any race), 2017 (MOE)Not_Hisp_e# Not Hispanic or Latino, 2017Not_Hisp_m# Not Hispanic or Latino, 2017 (MOE)pNot_Hisp_e% Not Hispanic or Latino, 2017pNot_Hisp_m% Not Hispanic or Latino, 2017 (MOE)NHWhite_e# Not Hispanic, White alone, 2017NHWhite_m# Not Hispanic, White alone, 2017 (MOE)pNHWhite_e% Not Hispanic, White alone, 2017pNHWhite_m% Not Hispanic, White alone, 2017 (MOE)NHBlack_e# Not Hispanic, Black or African American alone, 2017NHBlack_m# Not Hispanic, Black or African American alone, 2017 (MOE)pNHBlack_e% Not Hispanic, Black or African American alone, 2017pNHBlack_m% Not Hispanic, Black or African American alone, 2017 (MOE)NH_AmInd_e# Not Hispanic, American Indian and Alaska Native alone, 2017NH_AmInd_m# Not Hispanic, American Indian and Alaska Native alone, 2017 (MOE)pNH_AmInd_e% Not Hispanic, American Indian and Alaska Native alone, 2017pNH_AmInd_m% Not Hispanic, American Indian and Alaska Native alone, 2017 (MOE)NH_Asian_e# Not Hispanic, Asian alone, 2017NH_Asian_m# Not Hispanic, Asian alone, 2017 (MOE)pNH_Asian_e% Not Hispanic, Asian alone, 2017pNH_Asian_m% Not Hispanic, Asian alone, 2017 (MOE)NH_PacIsl_e# Not Hispanic, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, 2017NH_PacIsl_m# Not Hispanic, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, 2017 (MOE)pNH_PacIsl_e% Not Hispanic, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, 2017pNH_PacIsl_m% Not Hispanic, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, 2017 (MOE)NH_OthRace_e# Not Hispanic, some other race alone, 2017NH_OthRace_m# Not Hispanic, some other race alone, 2017 (MOE)pNH_OthRace_e% Not Hispanic, some other race alone, 2017pNH_OthRace_m% Not Hispanic, some other race alone, 2017 (MOE)NH_TwoRace_e# Not Hispanic, two or more races, 2017NH_TwoRace_m# Not Hispanic, two or more races, 2017 (MOE)pNH_TwoRace_e% Not Hispanic, two or more races, 2017pNH_TwoRace_m% Not Hispanic, two or more races, 2017 (MOE)NH_AsianPI_e# Non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander, 2017NH_AsianPI_m# Non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander, 2017 (MOE)pNH_AsianPI_e% Non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander, 2017pNH_AsianPI_m% Non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander, 2017 (MOE)NH_Other_e# Non-Hispanic other (Native American, other one race, two or more races), 2017NH_Other_m# Non-Hispanic other (Native American, other one race, two or more races), 2017 (MOE)pNH_Other_e% Non-Hispanic other (Native American, other one race, two or more races), 2017pNH_Other_m% Non-Hispanic other (Native American, other one race, two or more races), 2017 (MOE)last_edited_dateLast date the feature was edited by ARC Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Atlanta Regional CommissionDate: 2013-2017 For additional information, please visit the Census ACS website.

This layer was developed by the Research & Analytics Group of the Atlanta Regional Commission, using data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey 5-year estimates for 2013-2017, to show population by race/ethnicity and change data by Strong, Prosperous, And Resilient Communities Challenge in the Atlanta region. The user should note that American Community Survey data represent estimates derived from a surveyed sample of the population, which creates some level of uncertainty, as opposed to an exact measure of the entire population (the full census count is only conducted once every 10 years and does not cover as many detailed characteristics of the population). Therefore, any measure reported by ACS should not be taken as an exact number – this is why a corresponding margin of error (MOE) is also given for ACS measures. The size of the MOE relative to its corresponding estimate value provides an indication of confidence in the accuracy of each estimate. Each MOE is expressed in the same units as its corresponding measure; for example, if the estimate value is expressed as a number, then its MOE will also be a number; if the estimate value is expressed as a percent, then its MOE will also be a percent. The user should also note that for relatively small geographic areas, such as census tracts shown here, ACS only releases combined 5-year estimates, meaning these estimates represent rolling averages of survey results that were collected over a 5-year span (in this case 2013-2017). Therefore, these data do not represent any one specific point in time or even one specific year. For geographic areas with larger populations, 3-year and 1-year estimates are also available. For further explanation of ACS estimates and margin of error, visit Census ACS website. Naming conventions: Prefixes:NoneCountpPercentrRatemMedianaMean (average)tAggregate (total)chChange in absolute terms (value in t2 - value in t1)pchPercent change ((value in t2 - value in t1) / value in t1)chpChange in percent (percent in t2 - percent in t1)Suffixes:NoneChange over two periods_eEstimate from most recent ACS_mMargin of Error from most recent ACS_00Decennial 2000 Attributes: SumLevelSummary level of geographic unit (e.g., County, Tract, NSA, NPU, DSNI, SuperDistrict, etc)GEOIDCensus tract Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) code NAMEName of geographic unitPlanning_RegionPlanning region designation for ARC purposesAcresTotal area within the tract (in acres)SqMiTotal area within the tract (in square miles)CountyCounty identifier (combination of Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) codes for state and county)CountyNameCounty NameTotPop_e# Total population, 2017TotPop_m# Total population, 2017 (MOE)Hisp_e# Hispanic or Latino (of any race), 2017Hisp_m# Hispanic or Latino (of any race), 2017 (MOE)pHisp_e% Hispanic or Latino (of any race), 2017pHisp_m% Hispanic or Latino (of any race), 2017 (MOE)Not_Hisp_e# Not Hispanic or Latino, 2017Not_Hisp_m# Not Hispanic or Latino, 2017 (MOE)pNot_Hisp_e% Not Hispanic or Latino, 2017pNot_Hisp_m% Not Hispanic or Latino, 2017 (MOE)NHWhite_e# Not Hispanic, White alone, 2017NHWhite_m# Not Hispanic, White alone, 2017 (MOE)pNHWhite_e% Not Hispanic, White alone, 2017pNHWhite_m% Not Hispanic, White alone, 2017 (MOE)NHBlack_e# Not Hispanic, Black or African American alone, 2017NHBlack_m# Not Hispanic, Black or African American alone, 2017 (MOE)pNHBlack_e% Not Hispanic, Black or African American alone, 2017pNHBlack_m% Not Hispanic, Black or African American alone, 2017 (MOE)NH_AmInd_e# Not Hispanic, American Indian and Alaska Native alone, 2017NH_AmInd_m# Not Hispanic, American Indian and Alaska Native alone, 2017 (MOE)pNH_AmInd_e% Not Hispanic, American Indian and Alaska Native alone, 2017pNH_AmInd_m% Not Hispanic, American Indian and Alaska Native alone, 2017 (MOE)NH_Asian_e# Not Hispanic, Asian alone, 2017NH_Asian_m# Not Hispanic, Asian alone, 2017 (MOE)pNH_Asian_e% Not Hispanic, Asian alone, 2017pNH_Asian_m% Not Hispanic, Asian alone, 2017 (MOE)NH_PacIsl_e# Not Hispanic, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, 2017NH_PacIsl_m# Not Hispanic, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, 2017 (MOE)pNH_PacIsl_e% Not Hispanic, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, 2017pNH_PacIsl_m% Not Hispanic, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, 2017 (MOE)NH_OthRace_e# Not Hispanic, some other race alone, 2017NH_OthRace_m# Not Hispanic, some other race alone, 2017 (MOE)pNH_OthRace_e% Not Hispanic, some other race alone, 2017pNH_OthRace_m% Not Hispanic, some other race alone, 2017 (MOE)NH_TwoRace_e# Not Hispanic, two or more races, 2017NH_TwoRace_m# Not Hispanic, two or more races, 2017 (MOE)pNH_TwoRace_e% Not Hispanic, two or more races, 2017pNH_TwoRace_m% Not Hispanic, two or more races, 2017 (MOE)NH_AsianPI_e# Non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander, 2017NH_AsianPI_m# Non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander, 2017 (MOE)pNH_AsianPI_e% Non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander, 2017pNH_AsianPI_m% Non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander, 2017 (MOE)NH_Other_e# Non-Hispanic other (Native American, other one race, two or more races), 2017NH_Other_m# Non-Hispanic other (Native American, other one race, two or more races), 2017 (MOE)pNH_Other_e% Non-Hispanic other (Native American, other one race, two or more races), 2017pNH_Other_m% Non-Hispanic other (Native American, other one race, two or more races), 2017 (MOE)last_edited_dateLast date the feature was edited by ARC Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Atlanta Regional CommissionDate: 2013-2017 For additional information, please visit the Census ACS website.