US Public Use Microdata Area (PUMA) code
ID us_puma
DatatypeNot PIIcategoricalDraft
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Code of a Public Use Microdata Area, a statistical area for census and American Community Survey microdata with at least 100,000 people that nests within a state. The PUMA code has 5 digits with leading zeros; the 7-digit GEOID puts the 2-digit state code in front.
- Categories
- Geographic identifiers, Government related
- Countries
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Quality
- 75/100 · missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation, detector coverage
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- no tool record lists this type yet
Regular expression
^(?:\d{2})?\d{5}$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| 00800 | Calhoun County, Alabama (2020 PUMA) |
| 0100800 | same PUMA as a GEOID with state code 01 |
| 01403 | Birmingham City, Alabama (2020 PUMA) |
| 800 invalid | not zero-padded |
Sources
- wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Use_Microdata_Area
- wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7257651
- doc: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/geo-areas/pumas.html
- other: https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/reference/puma2020/2020_PUMA_Names.pdf
Use this record
- Page URL:
https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/us_puma - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/US/geo/us_puma.yamlon GitHub