Redistributing Demographics for Local Decision-making

An open-source R package for redistributing demographics

The redistribute package

Explore the redistribute package functionality and articles.

Often, data are not available in geographies relevant to local decisionmakers. For example, census geographies do not perfectly align with Arlington Civic Associations.

Current approaches

We review the current approaches to deal with a partial overlap

• Policy Map - Must be overlapping 50% or more or leave it off
• City-Data, Esri, others - Use percentage overlap
• Our approach 1 - Allocate demographics to parcels according to number of housing units

Creation of indicators at locally relevant geographies

Arlington County Black population example

Black population in Arlington County census tracts

Estimated Black population in Arlington County civic associations

Fairfax County average download speed example

Average download speed in Fairfax County census tracts

Incorporating data from multiple sources: IPUMS, using IPF

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Project Contact: Aaron Schroeder, ads7fg@virginia.edu