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county

Data for 3142 counties in the United States. See thecounty_complete data set for additional variables.

Variables

• name - County names.
• state - State names.
• pop2000 - Population in 2000.
• pop2010 - Population in 2010.
• pop2017 - Population in 2017.
• pop_change - Population change from 2010 to 2017.
• poverty - Percent of population in poverty in 2017.
• homeownership - Homeownership rate, 2006-2010.
• multi_unit - Percent of housing units in multi-unit structures,2006-2010.
• unemployment_rate - Unemployment rate in 2017.
• metro - Whether the county contains a metropolitan area.
• median_edu - Median education level (2013-2017).
• per_capita_income - Per capita (per person) income(2013-2017).
• median_hh_income - Median household income.
• smoking_ban - Describes whether the type of county-levelsmoking ban in place in 2010, taking one of the values "none","partial", or "comprehensive".

Source

These data were collected fromhttp://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/ (no longer available) and itsaccompanying pages.

Taken from: https://www.openintro.org/data/index.php?data=county.