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To get to this FTP site, click on ‘Redistricting’ from the main census site at www.census.gov. Then on the Redistricting main page, in the left hand column will be a tab labeled ‘File Downloading (FTP Server).
Once you click on that you will be brought to this screen. We start at the http://ftp2.census.gov site and work our way through the file manager tree to the exact file we’d like to download. Once the desired file is selected, the data can be saved to your local PC in a compressed or “Zipped” format. You will need to have software on your PC that can “unzip” these compressed files in order to see the full data set.
NOTE: Data files are all in ASCII comma delimited format. As a clarification the tfgeo.uPL.zip file is in a fixed file format, while the two other data files are in the ASCII comma delimited format. The READ file that is included in the ftp files contains useful background information on FTP. It also includes megabyte estimations of each state’s total file size. On the low end is D.C. at 3 megabytes up to Texas at 310 megabytes. As mentioned earlier, AFF should not be considered for downloads of larger than 5 megabytes.
