Hi all!
I am looking for maps of Philadelphia broken down by census tract for the 1950 and 1960 census. Let me know if you have any ideas where I can find this info on IPUMS!
Thank you!
Hi all!
I am looking for maps of Philadelphia broken down by census tract for the 1950 and 1960 census. Let me know if you have any ideas where I can find this info on IPUMS!
Thank you!
Dear Thomas,
IPUMS NHGIS has census tract shapefiles for 1950 and 1960. Philadelphia will be included in those files. In addition to the shapefiles, we also have census tract-level demographic data that you can link with the census tract shapefiles.
To find those maps, do the following:
If you download source tables, you can link them with shapefiles using the GISJOIN attribute which is in both files. Please note that the shapefile and demographic data file will have all census tracts in the US. You can filter out the Philadelphia tracts by querying the file.
Thank you so much!!
Let me know if you have any suggestions re: how to open the shape files. Shapefile Explorer says I do not have permission to open the shapefile.
Once you’ve unzipped the shapefiles on your computer, you can use open source GIS software such as QGIS, or you can use R to look at the maps. I’m afraid I haven’t used Shapefile Explorer before.