Dataset
Census Tracts Boston (2010)
The TIGER/Line Files are shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) that 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…
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Maps
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 19
- Keywords
- Census, Census 2010, Tracts, static
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/census-tracts-boston-2010
Artifacts
“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.
| Format | Preservation | Size | Digest | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ArcGIS GeoServices REST API | referenced | — | — | source |
| CSV | referenced | 39367 | 70fc031d4e7faad11b5a83fbcffd1ec8244eaf727c9e8555b6b8ca2905c33f2c | source |
| GeoJSON | referenced | 943316 | c09e8a72b5010c58681b021a9810583f117994f2116afc9544305c18aff3661d | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| KML | referenced | 196247 | b46df915a14bd155ad399b4e523ffaa7b12c321ced299e1ad8fba5da973bb030 | source |
| SHP | referenced | — | — | source |
| ZIP | referenced | — | — | source |
Column dictionary
The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
OID_ | text | |
OBJECTID | text | |
STATEFP10 | text | |
COUNTYFP10 | text | |
TRACTCE10 | text | |
GEOID10 | text | |
NAME10 | text | |
NAMELSAD10 | text | |
MTFCC10 | text | |
FUNCSTAT10 | text | |
ALAND10 | text | |
AWATER10 | text | |
INTPTLAT10 | text | |
INTPTLON10 | text | |
Shape_STAr | text | |
Shape_STLe | text | |
Shape_Length | text | |
Shape_Area | text | |
shape_wkt | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:census-tracts-boston-2010
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/census-tracts-boston-2010
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/census-tracts-boston-2010.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
- Licence
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- census-tracts-boston-2010
- Attribution
- City of Boston
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpoint | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | normalize | mapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |