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Cartographic Boundary Files

To learn more about the filenames, please see:

User note on Congressional and State Legislative Districts in Geographic Products.

Cartographic Boundary Files by Scale

You can download these files one geographic layer at a time by visiting the “Cartographic Boundary Files by Geography” section below or you can download the entire dataset available for a given scale here:

1 : 500,000 (national)   shapefile [338 MB]  |  geodatabase [226 MB]

1 : 5,000,000 (national)   shapefile [8.2 MB]  |  geodatabase [4.8 MB]

1 : 20,000,000 (national)   shapefile [2.2 MB]  |  geodatabase [1.5 MB]

Cartographic Boundary Files by Geography

You can download files one geographic layer at a time for the entire nation or by state, when available, below.

Alaska Native Regional Corporations (ANRC)

1 : 500,000   shapefile [1.2 MB]  |  kml [<1.0 MB]

American Indian/Alaska Native Areas/Hawaiian Home Lands

1 : 500,000 (national)   shapefile [1.4 MB]  |  kml [1.1 MB ]

Census Block Groups

1 : 500,000 (national)  shapefile [87 MB]

Census Tracts

1 : 500,000 (national)  shapefile [50 MB]

Congressional Districts: 116th Congress

1 : 500,000 (national)  shapefile [6.8 MB]  |  kml [5.0 MB]

1 : 5,000,000 (national)  shapefile [1.7 MB]  |  kml [1.1 MB]

1 : 20,000,000 (national)  shapefile [<1.0 MB]  |  kml [<1.0 MB]

Consolidated Cities

1 : 500,000 (national)  shapefile [<1.0 MB]

Counties

1 : 500,000 (national)  shapefile [11 MB]  |  kml [8.2 MB]

1 : 5,000,000 (national)  shapefile [2.7 MB]  |  kml [2.0 MB]

1 : 20,000,000 (national)  shapefile [< 1.0 MB]  |  kml [< 1.0 MB]

Counties within Congressional Districts: 116th Congress

1 : 500,000 (national)   shapefile [12 MB]  |  kml [9.0 MB]

Counties within Urban Areas

1 : 500,000 (national)  shapefile [9.5 MB]

County Subdivisions

1 : 500,000 (national)  shapefile [38 MB]

Divisions

1 : 500,000 (national)  shapefile [2.4 MB]  |  kml [1.9 MB]

1 : 5,000,000 (national)  shapefile [<1.0 MB]  |  kml [<1.0 MB]

1 : 20,000,000 (national)  shapefile [<1.0 MB]  |  kml [<1.0 MB]

Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas and Related Statistical Areas

Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs):

1: 500,000 (national)  shapefile [4.4 MB]  |  kml [3.3 MB]

1 : 5,000,000 (national)  shapefile [1.1 MB]  |  kml [<1.0 MB]

1 : 20,000,000 (national)  shapefile [<1.0 MB]  |  kml [<1.0 MB]

Combined Statistical Areas (CSAs):

1 : 500,000 (national)  shapefile [1.7 MB]  |  kml [1.2 MB]

1 : 5,000,000 (national)  shapefile [<1.0 MB]  |  kml [<1.0 MB]

1 : 20,000,000 (national)  shapefile [<1.0 MB]  |  kml [<1.0 MB]

New England City and Town Areas (NECTAs):

1 : 500,000 (national)  shapefile [<1.0 MB]  |  kml [<1.0 MB]

Combined New England City and Town Areas (CNECTAs):

1 : 500,000 (national)  shapefile [<1.0 MB]  |  kml [<1.0 MB]

Places

1 : 500,000 (national)  shapefile [20 MB]

Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs)

1 : 500,000 (national)  shapefile [9.4 MB]

Regions

1 : 500,000 (national)  shapefile [2.2 MB]  |  kml [1.7 MB]

1 : 5,000,000 (national)  shapefile [<1.0 MB]  |  kml [<1.0 MB]

1 : 20,000,000 (national)  shapefile [<1.0 MB]  |  kml [<1.0 MB]

School Districts

School Districts - Elementary

1 : 500,000 (national)  shapefile [2.0 MB]

School Districts - Secondary

1 : 500,000 (national)  shapefile [1.0 MB]

School Districts - Unified

1 : 500,000 (national)  shapefile [23 MB]

State Legislative Districts

State Legislative Districts - Lower Chamber

1 : 500,000 (national)  shapefile [17 MB]

State Legislative Districts - Upper Chamber

1 : 500,000 (national)  shapefile [12 MB]

States

1 : 500,000 (national)  shapefile [3.1 MB]  |  kml [2.5 MB]

1 : 5,000,000 (national)  shapefile [1.0 MB]  |  kml [<1.0 MB]

1 : 20,000,000 (national)  shapefile [<1.0 MB]  |  kml [<1.0 MB]

Subbarrios

1 : 500,000  shapefile [<1.0 MB]  |  kml [<1.0 MB]

United States Outline

1 : 5,000,000 (national)  shapefile [<1.0 MB]  |  kml [<1.0 MB]

1 : 20,000,000 (national)  shapefile [<1.0 MB]  |  kml [<1.0 MB]

Urban Areas

1 : 500,000 (national)  shapefile [9.1 MB]  |  kml [6.7 MB]

ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs)

1 : 500,000 (national)  shapefile [59 MB]  |  kml [41 MB]

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