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The data comes from the American Community Survey (ACS). The geographic unit is
Zip Code Tabulated Areas (ZCTAs). The variables are: total population, percent White
not Hispanic, Percent Black or African American not Hispanic, percent Asian not Hispanic,
percent Hispanic all races, per-capita income, median rent and median age.

The shapefile is taken from the US Census Bureau's 2013
Cartographic Boundary Shapefiles - ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs). See
?zip.map for additional information. Metadata about each ZCTA is in
?zip.regions. Metadata includes State, County and Metropolitan /
Micropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). Visualization functions are ?zip_choropleth
and ?zip_choropleth_acs.

Ari Lamstein

get_zip_demographics: Get a handful of demographic variables from the US Census Bureau as a data.frame.

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