2020 Census Urban Areas

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Updated Oct 17, 2026

About this dataset

The US Census designates certain blocks as urban based on certain criteria (found here). This layer includes polygons that represent all of the census blocks that were designated as urban as of 2020.

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2020 Census Urban Areas

About this dataset

Data and resources (11)

ArcGIS Hub Dataset

ArcGIS GeoService

CSV

Shapefile

GeoJSON

KML

File Geodatabase

Feature Collection

Excel

GeoPackage

SQLite Geodatabase