US Block Group Changes through Time

As a reference for users, Motionworks provides this cross-reference to allow users to understand how the block group geographies are changing through time and map data from a 2010 reference to another publication year.

The universal geography_id is used and can be referenced back to the core Geography Reference Datasets.

Schema

Motionworks delivers Geography via Snowflake or can be delivered using a compressed flat file output (csv.gz) via cloud storage. The following describes the schema.

NameDescriptionTypeExample
geography_idUnique identifier for the block group geography across years.stringUS2020XXBG360050157001
geography_id_2010Unique identifier for the 2010 block group geography.stringUS2010XXBG360050157001
geography_id_2020Unique identifier for the 2020 block group geography.string
area_2010The proportion of the geography_id area that is shared between years with geography_id_2010.float0.6742739816
area_2020The proportion of the geography_id area that is shared between years with geography_id_2020.float
householdsThe 2023 household count of the overlapping geography_id that is shared with geography_id_2010 and geography_id_2020.integer371
personsThe 2023 person count of the overlapping geography_id that is shared with geography_id_2010 and geography_id_2020.integer972