27  US County Income 1969-2017

This documents the creation of the data set uscountypcincome.gpkg that contains US per capita income at the county level.

27.1 Data Sources

The original files have been archived at gdsbook/data_archive/us_county_income and include:

  • CANINC1.zip, which includes attribute data for per capita income for US counties 1969-2017
  • tl_2019_us_county.zip, with the geometries for each county

The data archive has urls back to the original sources for the downloads.

27.2 Notebooks

To reproduce the dataset, you can run the us_county_income_clean.ipynb notebook. The result is the analysis-ready uscountypcincome.gpkg file with US county per capita incomes 1969-2017 and county geometries.