Abstract

A crosswalk dataset matching US ZIP codes to corresponding county codes

Documentation

The denominators used to calculate the address ratios are the ZIP code totals. When a ZIP is split by any of the other geographies, that ZIP code is duplicated in the crosswalk file.

**Example: **ZIP code 03870 is split by two different Census tracts, 33015066000 and 33015071000, which appear in the tract column. The ratio of residential addresses in the first ZIP-Tract record to the total number of residential addresses in the ZIP code is .0042 (.42%). The remaining residential addresses in that ZIP (99.58%) fall into the second ZIP-Tract record.

So, for example, if one wanted to allocate data from ZIP code 03870 to each Census tract located in that ZIP code, one would multiply the number of observations in the ZIP code by the residential ratio for each tract associated with that ZIP code.

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County definition

In the United States, a county is an administrative or political subdivision of a state that consists of a geographic region with specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority. The term "county" is used in 48 U.S. states, while Louisiana and Alaska have functionally equivalent subdivisions called parishes and boroughs, respectively.

Further reading

The following article demonstrates how to more effectively use the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) United States Postal Service ZIP Code Crosswalk Files when working with disparate geographies.

Wilson, Ron and Din, Alexander, 2018. “Understanding and Enhancing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s ZIP Code Crosswalk Files,” Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research, Volume 20 Number 2, 277 – 294. URL: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscpe/vol20num2/ch16.pdf

Contact information

Questions regarding these crosswalk files can be directed to Alex Din with the subject line HUD-Crosswalks.

Acknowledgement

This dataset is taken from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) office: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/usps_crosswalk.html#codebook

A listing of NYS counties with accompanying Federal Information Processing System (FIPS) and US Postal Service ZIP codes sourced from the NYS GIS Clearinghouse.

ZIP code areas within Fairfax County.

This feature class contains polygons defining the USPS ZIP Codes in Hillsborough County, Florida. The dataset includes a five-digit code and name of each ZIP code. The purpose of this dataset is to represent location and describe the boundaries of all ZIP codes within Hillsborough County.USPS ZIP code layer were originally built using the street centerline, Situs or property lines.Hillsborough County obtains the information about approximate ZIP codes boundaries in the form of legal descriptions or general maps outlining the areas from USPS and feature polygons are drawn using ArcMap to update the existing boundaries. Any ZIP code that did not have geographic areas but have only post office box was represented by a small square. The boundaries are updated as needed basis when errors are found or when unpopulated areas have growth. The polygon boundaries are approximate since the ZIP codes are assigned to linear features (Roads), not to geographic areas.

US Postal Service ZIP Code boundaries. This layer was created by Los Angeles County eGIS to align with parcel boundaries.ZIP is an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan.Legal vs. Postal Cities: Many users confuse the name the Post Office delivers mail to (e.g. Van Nuys, Hollywood) as a legal city (in this case Los Angeles), when they are a postal city. The County contains 88 legal cities, and over 400 postal names that are tied to the ZIP Codes. To support usability and geocoding, we have attached the first 3 postal cities to each address, based upon its ZIP Code.The US Postal Service is the authoritative source for ZIP Code data. See their website for more information.

This dataset is part of the Geographical repository maintained by Opendatasoft. It's been built from the ground up using authoritative sources including the U.S. Postal Service™, U.S. Census Bureau, National Weather Service, American Community Survey, and the IRS.Contains most USPS zip codes (lat/long).

The H-GAC ZIP code coverage includes polygons and their attributes for Harris County. It was primarily created from the census 2002 ZIP code boundary data with secondary source data coming from Centerpoint ZIP code, Esri 2009 ZIP code, address point data from centerpoint and counties, CRIS ( Carrier Route Information System) data, US Postal Services Online site ( Look up a ZIP code) and parcels. Must Not Overlap and Must Not have Gaps topology rules have been used in order to create an accurate ZIP code layer. The layer represents physical ZIP codes and a few PO BOX ZIP codes are included rural areas . PO BOX ZIP codes can be identifying by "zip_type" field in the attribute table.

This dataset provides crosswalks between counties and ZIP codes, congressional districts and precincts in the United States.

This dataset contains all zip codes in Montgomery County. Zip codes are the postal delivery areas defined by USPS. Zip codes with mailboxes only are not included.

https://gis3.montgomerycountymd.gov/arcgis/rest/services/general/zipcode/MapServer/0

This dataset demarcates the zip code boundaries that lie within Allegheny County.If viewing this description on the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center’s open data portal (http://www.wprdc.org), this dataset is harvested on a weekly basis from Allegheny County’s GIS data portal (http://openac.alcogis.opendata.arcgis.com/). The full metadata record for this dataset can also be found on Allegheny County’s GIS portal. You can access the metadata record and other resources on the GIS portal by clicking on the “Explore” button (and choosing the “Go to resource” option) to the right of the “ArcGIS Open Dataset” text below.Category: Civic Vitality and GovernanceOrganization: Allegheny CountyDepartment: Geographic Information Systems Group; Department of Administrative ServicesTemporal Coverage: currentData Notes: Coordinate System: Pennsylvania State Plane South Zone 3702; U.S. Survey FootDevelopment Notes: noneOther: noneRelated Document(s): Data Dictionary (none)Frequency - Data Change: As neededFrequency - Publishing: As neededData Steward Name: Eli ThomasData Steward Email: gishelp@alleghenycounty.us

This layer represents ZIP Code outlines for the state of North Carolina. The counties are stored as polygons.

A ZIP Code is a five digit numeric code that identifies a collection of mailing addresses within the United States and its territories to simplify the distribution of mail by the United States Postal Service (USPS).

A ZIP Code is a delivery sort sequence and the USPS does not associate an area with each ZIP Code. Said another way, ZIP Codes are lists of addresses for delivering the mail. They are not areas. However, many ZIP Codes have delivery areas, and some ZIP Codes are for buildings or campuses that have defined borders. Boundaries can also be created by grouping small areas (defined by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for their nationwide street map) based on the dominant ZIP Code of the addresses in each small area, but this is an approximation because carrier routes may overlap and portions of the country have no deliverable addresses. The ZIP Code areas often do not adhere to boundaries of cities, towns, counties, or states.

This feature class contains polygons of the zip code boundaries within Manatee County.

This dataset shows zip codes located in Pima County. The layer is maintained by Pima County, originally sourced from the US Postal Service zip code areas. Click here to visit Pima County's Open Data site.PurposeTo delineate zip codes within Pima CountyDataset ClassificationLevel 0 – OpenKnown UsesNoneKnown ErrorsMetropolitan boundaries are delineated well. Rural boundaries are extrapolated in some areas. Refer to US Postal Service for latest ZIP Code routes and for exact individual addresses. Zip codes defined by the US Postal Service as "unique", "military", and "post office box" are not included in this layer as they have no defined areas.ContactGISData@pima.govUpdate FrequencyAs Needed

Abstract

A crosswalk dataset matching US ZIP codes to corresponding census tracts

Documentation

The denominators used to calculate the address ratios are the ZIP code totals. When a ZIP is split by any of the other geographies, that ZIP code is duplicated in the crosswalk file.

**Example: **ZIP code 03870 is split by two different Census tracts, 33015066000 and 33015071000, which appear in the tract column. The ratio of residential addresses in the first ZIP-Tract record to the total number of residential addresses in the ZIP code is .0042 (.42%). The remaining residential addresses in that ZIP (99.58%) fall into the second ZIP-Tract record.

So, for example, if one wanted to allocate data from ZIP code 03870 to each Census tract located in that ZIP code, one would multiply the number of observations in the ZIP code by the residential ratio for each tract associated with that ZIP code.

https://redivis.com/fileUploads/4ecb405e-f533-4a5b-8286-11e56bb93368%3E" alt="">(Note that the sum of each ratio column for each distinct ZIP code may not always equal 1.00 (or 100%) due to rounding issues.)

Census tract definition

A census tract, census area, census district or meshblock is a geographic region defined for the purpose of taking a census. Sometimes these coincide with the limits of cities, towns or other administrative areas and several tracts commonly exist within a county. In unincorporated areas of the United States these are often arbitrary, except for coinciding with political lines.

Further reading

The following article demonstrates how to more effectively use the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) United States Postal Service ZIP Code Crosswalk Files when working with disparate geographies.

Wilson, Ron and Din, Alexander, 2018. “Understanding and Enhancing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s ZIP Code Crosswalk Files,” Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research, Volume 20 Number 2, 277 – 294. URL: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscpe/vol20num2/ch16.pdf

Contact information

Questions regarding these crosswalk files can be directed to Alex Din with the subject line HUD-Crosswalks.

Acknowledgement

This dataset is taken from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) office: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/usps_crosswalk.html#codebook

This data collection relates ZIP codes to counties, to standard metropolitan statistical areas (SMSAs), and, in New England, to minor civil divisions (MCDs). The relationships between ZIP codes and other geographical units are based on 1979 boundaries, and changes since that time are not reflected. The Census Bureau used various sources to determine ZIP code-county or ZIP code-MCD relationships. In the cases where the sources were confusing or contradictory as to the geographical boundaries of a ZIP code, multiple ZIP-code records (each representing the territory contained in that ZIP-code area) were included in the data file. As a result, the file tends to overstate the ZIP code-county or ZIP code-MCD crossovers. The file is organized by ZIP code and is a byproduct of data used to administer the 1980 Census. Variables include ZIP codes, post office names, FIPS state and county codes, county or MCD names, and SMSA codes.

Analysis of ‘US Zipcodes to County State to FIPS Crosswalk’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/danofer/zipcodes-county-fips-crosswalk on 28 January 2022.

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Context

Dataset created to link between County - State Name, State-County FIPS, and ZIP Code.

Acknowledgements

Data Sources

• US HUD

https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/usps.html

• Census Bureau

https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/reference/codes/files/national_county.txt https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/codes/cou.html

Data cleaned by Data4Democracy and hosted originally on Data.World: https://github.com/Data4Democracy/zip-code-to-county https://data.world/niccolley/us-zipcode-to-county-state

ZCTA data from USPS 6.2017 release.

Image from Reddit.

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This dataset consists of data from the United States Postal Service (USPS). It entails all of the five digit zip codes in the 20-county metro Atlanta region which are assigned by USPS. The data is part of the administrative area layer, a group layer containing the various geographic divisions in Atlanta. It follows ESRI's Local Government Information Model. For more information about the local government model visit "What is the Local Government Information Model."Five Digit System: The first digit designates a geographic region. The second and third digits designate a concentrated population, e.g. city or town. The fourth and fifth digits designate local post offices or postal zones. For a deep dive into the history of zip codes see The United States Postal Service an American History. Area Covered: Atlanta, GAKey Attributes:Name: Five digit codeSHAPE_Length: The length of each zip code.SHAPE_Area: The area of each zip codeSource: USPS DateUpdate Frequency: When known boundary updates occur.Source:Department of City Planning GIS55 Trinity Ave SWAtlanta, GA 30303gis-team@atlantaga.govUploaded on COA Portal: Aug 20, 2021Metadata Edited: Oct 2021

Edited by MetroSafe. Efforts were made to include/exclude specific Address points from ZIP code regions. As a result, boundary areas not conforming to coincident parcel boundary, road edge, or street centerline features should be seen as interpolated/extrapolated, and not geographically certain beyond a general measure. View detailed metadata.

The features in this layer represent the five-digit ZIP Code areas that are used by the U.S. Postal Service to deliver mail more effectively. This layer provides ZIP Code, postal district name, population, and area for the ZIP Code areas in California.

HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) announced that HUD-USPS ZIP Code Crosswalk data are now available via an application programming interface (API). With this API, developers can easily access and customize crosswalk data for use in existing applications or to create new applications. To create an account and get an access token, please visit the API page here: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/dataset/uspszip-api.html.