Geolytics Census CDs

The center has an extensive collection of GeoLytics CDs that make searching for US demographic characteristics easy and convenient.  The resulting searches can be exported to GIS shapefiles. 

Geolytics Census CD 1970, 1980, CD+Maps , and Census CD 40 years

Harris County 2000 Census Application

The GIS/Data Center at Rice University has created an application that makes it easy to map out any field of information from the Census 2000 Summary Files for Harris County. The summary files contain thousands of fields of information. There are endless possibilities for the use of census information combined with other layers of information in a GIS system.

The Census 2000 Summary Files Application is available for use in the GIS/Data Center at Rice University. It is also available for download (download function coming soon!).

Note: This application runs on top of ESRI's ArcView 8.X.

Summary File 1 (SF 1)

• Population counts for 63 race categories, including Hispanic or Latino (to block level)
  

• Population counts for many detailed race and  Hispanic or Latino categories, and American Indian and Alaska Native tribes (to census tract level)
• Selected population and housing characteristics (to block/census tract level)
  

Summary File 2 (SF 2) 

• Population and housing characteristics iterated for many detailed race and Hispanic or Latino categories, and American Indian and Alaska Native tribes

• Summary File 1 and 2 are 100 Percent Data Products. The 100-Percent Data Products are based on answers to the questions common to both the Census 2000 Short-Form and Long-Form Questionnaires and include the following subjects: age, Hispanic or Latino origin, household relationship, race, sex, tenure, vacancy characteristics

Summary File 3 (SF 3)

• Population counts for ancestry groups (to census tract level)
• Selected population and housing characteristics (to block group/census tract level)
• National-level file (to place level)

Summary File 4 (SF 4)

Population and housing characteristics iterated for many detailed race and Hispanic or Latino categories, American Indian and Alaska Native tribes, and ancestry groups. Summary File 3 and 4 are Sample Data Products. The Sample Data Products are based on answers to the questions on the Long-Form Questionnaire and include the following subjects: 

• Population: Ancestry, disability, farm residence, grandparents as caregivers, income, labor force status, language spoken at home, marital status, migration (residence since 1995), place of birth, citizenship, year of entry, place of work, journey to work, school enrollment and educational attainment, veteran status 

• Housing: Heating fuel, number of rooms, number of bedrooms, occupation, industry, class of worker, plumbing and kitchen facilities, telephone service, units in structure, utilities, mortgage, taxes, insurance, fuel costs, value of home or monthly rent paid, vehicles available, work status, year moved into residence, year structure built