[okgis] FOR COMMENT: Proposed Urban Area Criteria for the 2010 Census

["Mike Sharp" <mike.sharp AT conservation.ok.gov>]

Please note the announcement below concerning the 2010 Census.  

Mike Sharp
Acting State Geographic Information Coordinator
Office of Geographic Information
and
Director Information Technology
Assistant Director AML Program
Oklahoma Conservation Commission
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Subject: [nsgic_member_list] FOR COMMENT: Proposed Urban Area Criteria
for the 2010 Census


The Census Bureau announces publication of the "Proposed Urban Area
Criteria for the 2010 Census" in the Federal Register of August 24,
2010,
available on the Federal Register's website at
<http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/>.  The Census Bureau is seeking public
comment on these proposed criteria.  Comments, suggestions, or
recommendations regarding the criteria should be submitted in writing,
no
later than November 22, 2010, to Timothy Trainor, Chief, Geography
Division, U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, DC 20233-7400.

The Census Bureau's urban-rural classification is fundamentally a
delineation of geographical areas, identifying individual urbanized
areas
of 50,000 or more people and urban clusters of at least 2,500 and less
than
50,000 people; "rural" encompasses all population and territory not
included in urban areas.  The Census Bureau's urban areas represent
densely
developed territory, and encompass residential, commercial, and other
non-residential urban land uses.  Additional information about the
Census
Bureau's urban-rural classification is available on the Census Bureau's
website at <http://www.census.gov/geo/www/ua/urbanruralclass.html>.

The proposed urban area criteria for the 2010 Census as well as
summaries
of the proposed changes, are available on the Census Bureau's website at
<
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/ua/2010urbanruralclass.html>.

Changes proposed for the 2010 Census include:

   *  Use of census tracts as analysis units in the initial phase of
      delineation
   *  Potential return to a maximum jump distance of 1.5 miles (the
      distance was increased to 2.5 miles in the Census 2000 criteria).
   *  Use of land use/land cover data to identify territory containing
      non-residential urban land uses or land cover that restricts urban
      development, such as marshland and wetlands.
   *  Lowering the minimum number of enplanements (departing passengers)
      from 10,000 to 2,500 to qualify airports for inclusion in urban
      areas.
   *  Elimination of the central place concept.
   *  Requirement that, in addition to at least 2,500 total population,
an
      area must contain at least 1,500 persons residing outside
      institutional group quarters to qualify as urban.
   *  Splitting urban agglomerations of 1,000,000 or more population
based
      on metropolitan statistical area boundaries, or, in New England,
      along metropolitan New England city and town area boundaries.

For further information about the Census Bureau urban-rural
classification,
or the proposed criteria for the 2010 Census, please contact Vincent
Osier,
Chief, Geographic Standards and Criteria Branch, Geography Division,
U.S.
Census Bureau, via e-mail at 
vincent.osier AT census.gov
 or telephone at
301-763-9039.


______________
Randy Fusaro
Chief, National/State Geographic Partnerships Branch
US Census Bureau
4600 Silver Hill Road/ MS-7400
Washington, DC 20233-7400

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