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January 2016. The importance of understanding the demographic-economic make-up and patterns for state legislative districts can hardly be overstated. Community and neighborhood challenges and opportunities are shaped by demographic-economic dynamics. Legislative district incumbents and stakeholders need this information to assess conditions and plan to meet the needs of residents. Only by knowing "where we are" can we develop the most effective plans for improvement. Use the GIS project to examine state legislative districts in context of neighborhoods and small area socioeconomic patterns (details below).

Social Characteristics
State legislative districts are diverse; they range in educational attainment - percent bachelor's degree or higher - from 3.4% to 85.4%. The average household size ranges from 1.66 to 4.76 persons. Use the interactive table below to view other social characteristics. Compare districts of interest.
.. related sections: General Demographics.. Economic .. Housing characteristics.

New York Metro House Districts & Economic Prosperity by ZIP Code
Illustrative GIS application showing legislative districts contextually with other geography & subject matter. House districts black boundary & district code; patterns of median household income by ZIP code.

- View developed using CV XE GIS and related GIS project.
- see below in this section about using this GIS project.

This section is focused on tools, resources and methods that you can use to access, integrate and analyze state legislative district general demographics data. The U.S. national scope ACS 2014 (released December 2015) State Legislative District Demographic-Economic Dataset contains approximately 600 subject matter items tabulated for each state legislative district organized into four subject matter groups:
  • General Demographics
  • Social Characteristics -- this section
  • Economic Characteristics
  • Housing Characteristics

See more about the importance of these data.

Data reviewed in this section are based on the American Community Survey (ACS) 2014 5-year estimates for state legislative districts defined as of the 2014 legislative session. See notes on importance of these data. See similar ranking tables for: Congressional Districts | Census Tracts | ZIP Codes | State, Metro & County.

Texas State Legislative Districts -- Upper
Patterns of percent population age 65 years and over by upper/senate legislative district.
Metros shown with red-brown boundary.

- View developed using CV XE GIS and related GIS project.

Texas State Legislative Districts -- Lower
Patterns of percent population age 65 years and over by lower/house legislative district.
Metros shown with red-brown boundary.

- View developed using CV XE GIS and related GIS project.

Get a Custom Map for Your State of Interest
Use this form to request a no fee map graphic similar to the one shown above for a state of interest. Enter the request with state name in the text section; e.g., "Requesting state legislative district %population 65 years & over for Illinois SLDL."

Using the Interactive Table
Use the interactive ranking table in this section to view, query, rank, compare social characteristics of the population for these areas. The scroll box shown below lists each of the subject matter items available for each area via the ranking table. In the subject matter items scrollbox, subject matter items are organized into to mini-tables with related items. The number at the left of the subject matter item is also used as the short name for the subject matter item in the column header in the ranking table.

Social Characteristics Items
HOUSEHOLDS BY TYPE
  S001     Total households
  S002 Family households (families)
  S003         With own children under 18 years
  S004     Married-couple family
  S005         With own children under 18 years
  S006     Male householder, no wife present, family
  S007         With own children under 18 years
  S008     Female householder, no husband present, family
  S009         With own children under 18 years
  S010 Nonfamily households
  S011     Householder living alone
  S012           65 years and over
  S013   Households with one or more people under 18 years
  S014   Households with one or more people 65 years and over
  S015   Average household size
  S016   Average family size
RELATIONSHIP
  S017       Population in households
  S018   Householder
  S019   Spouse
  S020   Child
  S021   Other relatives
  S022   Nonrelatives
  S023       Unmarried partner
MARITAL STATUS
  S024     Males 15 years and over
  S025   Never married
  S026   Now married, except separated
  S027   Separated
  S028   Widowed
  S029   Divorced
  S030     Females 15 years and over
  S031   Never married
  S032   Now married, except separated
  S033   Separated
  S034   Widowed
  S035   Divorced
FERTILITY
  S036     Number of women 15 to 50 years old who had a birth in the past 12 months
  S037 Unmarried women (widowed, divorced, and never married)
  S038     Per 1,000 unmarried women
  S039 Per 1,000 women 15 to 50 years old
  S040     Per 1,000 women 15 to 19 years old
  S041     Per 1,000 women 20 to 34 years old
  S042     Per 1,000 women 35 to 50 years old
GRANDPARENTS
  S043     Number of grandparents living with own grandchildren under 18 years
  S044 Responsible for grandchildren
        Years responsible for grandchildren
  S045         Less than 1 year
  S046         1 or 2 years
  S047         3 or 4 years
  S048         5 or more years
  S049     Number of grandparents responsible for own grandchildren under 18 years
  S050 Who are female
  S051 Who are married
SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
  S052     Population 3 years and over enrolled in school
  S053 Nursery school, preschool
  S054 Kindergarten
  S055 Elementary school (grades 1-8)
  S056 High school (grades 9-12)
  S057 College or graduate school
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
  S058     Population 25 years and over
  S059 Less than 9th grade
  S060 9th to 12th grade, no diploma
  S061 High school graduate (includes equivalency)
  S062 Some college, no degree
  S063 Associate's degree
  S064 Bachelor's degree
  S065 Graduate or professional degree
  S066 Percent high school graduate or higher
  S067 Percent bachelor's degree or higher
VETERAN STATUS
  S068     Civilian population 18 years and over
  S069 Civilian veterans
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
  S070     Total Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population
  S071 With a disability
  S072     Under 18 years
  S073 With a disability
  S074     18 to 64 years
  S075 With a disability
  S076     65 years and over
  S077 With a disability
RESIDENCE 1 YEAR AGO
  S078     Population 1 year and over
  S079 Same house
  S080 Different house in the U.S.
  S081     Same county
  S082     Different county
  S083         Same state
  S084         Different state
  S085 Abroad
PLACE OF BIRTH
  S086     Total population
  S087 Native
  S088     Born in United States
  S089         State of residence
  S090         Different state
  S091     Born in Puerto Rico, U.S. Island areas, or born abroad to American parent(s)
  S092 Foreign born
U.S. CITIZENSHIP STATUS
  S093     Foreign-born population
  S094 Naturalized U.S. citizen
  S095 Not a U.S. citizen
YEAR OF ENTRY
  S096     Population born outside the United States
  S097     Native
  S098 Entered 2010 or later
  S099 Entered before 2010
  S100     Foreign born
  S101 Entered 2010 or later
  S102 Entered before 2010
WORLD REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
  S103     Foreign-born population, excluding population born at sea
  S104 Europe
  S105 Asia
  S106 Africa
  S107 Oceania
  S108 Latin America
  S109 Northern America
LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
  S110     Population 5 years and over
  S111 English only
  S112 Language other than English
  S113         Speak English less than "very well"
  S114     Spanish
  S115         Speak English less than "very well"
  S116     Other Indo-European languages
  S117         Speak English less than "very well"
  S118     Asian and Pacific Islander languages
  S119         Speak English less than "very well"
  S120     Other languages
  S121         Speak English less than "very well"
ANCESTRY
  S122     Total population
  S123 American
  S124 Arab
  S125 Czech
  S126 Danish
  S127 Dutch
  S128 English
  S129 French (except Basque)
  S130 French Canadian
  S131 German
  S132 Greek
  S133 Hungarian
  S134 Irish
  S135 Italian
  S136 Lithuanian
  S137 Norwegian
  S138 Polish
  S139 Portuguese
  S140 Russian
  S141 Scotch-Irish
  S142 Scottish
  S143 Slovak
  S144 Subsaharan African
  S145 Swedish
  S146 Swiss
  S147 Ukrainian
  S148 Welsh
  S149 West Indian (excluding Hispanic origin groups)

State Legislative District ACS 2014 Interactive Tables -- Social Characteristics
  Click ShowAll button between Find/Queries. Use mouseover on column header to view column description.
  See usage notes below table. See related tables -- http://proximityone.com/rankingtables.htm.


Usage Notes
  • If table not showing any rows; click ShowAll button below table.
  • Use vertical and horizontal scroll bars to navigate up/down or left/right.
  • Adjust column widths using column divider between header cells.
  • Type> -- use to select Upper/Senate (610) or Lower/House (620)
  • Find Name> button -- use to select district based on exact spelling of partial name in column 1.
    .. Key in exact up/low case spelling of partial name of district in the edit box to right of Find Name> button.
    .. overwriting the value Los Angeles.
    .. click the Find Name> button ... table refreshes with all districts with matched spelling in column 1.
  • Selected columns -- "AvgHHSize.AvgFamSize.%HSGrad.%CollGrad" below the table to show only these columns;
    .. click "All columns" button to restore view to all columns.

  • All items are estimates centric to mid-2012.
  • Click ShowAll button between specific area queries.
  • Cells with -1 value could not be estimated (for this geography and this time frame).

State Legislative Districts GIS Project/Datasets
1. Install the ProximityOne CV XE GIS
... omit this step if CV XE GIS software already installed.
... run the CV XE GIS installer
... take all defaults during installation
2. Download the State Legislative Districts GIS Project fileset
... requires ProximityOne User Group ID (join now)
... unzip State Legislative Districts GIS project files to local folder State Legislative Districts GIS Project
3. Open the sld2014b.gis project
... after completing the above steps, click File>Open>Dialog
... open the file named C:\sld2014\sld2014b.gis
4. Done .. the start-up view is similar to Texas SLD graphic shown above.

GIS Layers
The GIS project includes these layers/shapefiles/datasets:
1. U.S. by state
2. U.S. by CBSA/Metro - set to MSA only at start-up
3. U.S. by County - check layer checkbox in legend to show in map window
4. Texas Primary and Secondary Roads - set to Interstate only at start-up; names as labels optionally turned on
5. Houston Super Neighborhoods (SNBR) - check layer checkbox in legend to show in map window
The following graphic shows the SNBRs in context of patterns of economic prosperity (median household income) by ZIP code area. Use the GIS project to examine relationships between neighborhoods and state legislative districts. Click graphic for larger view (expand browser window for best quality view).
 
6. Texas State Legislative Districts - Upper with integrated DP1 demographics
7. Texas State Legislative Districts - Lower with integrated DP1 demographics
8. Texas ZIP Code Area with integrated selected demographic-economic items
    - initially set to patterns of median household income
9. MapQuest OpenStreetMaps

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State Legislative Districts
State legislative districts are the areas from which members are elected to state or equivalent entity legislatures. State legislative districts are comprised of upper (senate) and lower (house) chambers. Nebraska has a unicameral legislature and the District of Columbia has a single council; these are treated as upper-chamber legislative areas in the interactive table.

Importance of State Legislative District Demographic-Economic Data
The American Community Survey provides "richer" demographic-economic characteristics for national scope 2014 session state legislative districts. Only ACS sourced data provide details on topics such as income and poverty, labor force and employment, housing value and costs, educational participation and attainment, language spoken at home, among many related items. The approximate 600 items accessible via the dataset are supplemented by a wide range of additional subject matter.

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