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snippet: Census Bureau's Urban Classification Areas
summary: Census Bureau's Urban Classification Areas
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accessInformation: ©2025 U.S. Census Department of Housing and Urban Development ©2025 St. Tammany Parish Government - GIS Division of the Department of Technology Last Updated:
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description: <div style='text-align:Left;'><div><div><p style='text-align:Center;'><span style='font-weight:bold;font-size:16pt'>2020 CENSUS URBANIZED AREAS</span></p><p style='text-align:Center;'><span>The Census Bureau’s urban-rural classification is a delineation of geographic areas, identifying both individual urban areas and the rural area of the nation.</span></p><p style='text-align:Center;'><span>The Census Bureau’s urban areas represent densely developed territory, and encompass residential, commercial, and other non-residential urban land uses.</span></p><p style='text-align:Center;'><span>The Census Bureau delineates urban areas after each decennial census by applying specified criteria to decennial census and other data.</span></p><p style='text-align:Center;'><span>Rural encompasses all population, housing, and territory not included within an urban area.</span></p><p style='text-align:Center;'><span>For the 2020 Census, an urban area will comprise a densely settled core of census blocks that meet minimum housing unit density and/or population density requirements.</span></p><p style='text-align:Center;'><span>This includes adjacent territory containing non-residential urban land uses.</span></p><p style='text-align:Center;'><span>To qualify as an urban area, the territory identified according to criteria must encompass at least 2,000 housing units or have a population of at least 5,000.</span></p></div></div></div>
licenseInfo: <div style='text-align:Left;'><div><p style='text-align:Center;'><span style='font-weight:bold;font-size:8pt'>For planning purposes only. It is not a legally recorded plan, survey, official tax map or engineering schematic, and it is not intended to be used as such.</span></p><p style='text-align:Center;'><span style='font-size:8pt'>©2025 St. Tammany Parish Government - GIS Division of the Department of Technology</span></p></div></div>
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title: Census 2020 Urbanized Area
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