The Street Connectivity dataset contains measures of street connectivity (how well streets connect with one another) within United States census tracts. This includes measures of the number of street segments (links) and intersections (nodes) per tract, street length within tracts, and indices representing overall connectivity within the tract.

Data Summary

Dataset Name: Street Connectivity

Data Source: United States Census Bureau TIGER/Line Shapefiles, All Lines shapefile and Cartographic Boundary Files

Years: 2010

Geographies: Census Tract

Download the Street Connectivity documentation HERE.

Suggested Citation: 

Ailshire, Jennifer, Robert Melendez, and Megan Chenoweth. 2021. Street Connectivity. Los Angeles, CA: USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health.

Data Sources:

United States Census Bureau TIGER/Line Shapefiles, All Lines shapefile. Retrieved from https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/tiger-line-file.2010.html.

United States Census Bureau Cartographic Boundary Files. Retrieved from https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/carto-boundary-file.2010.html.

National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA). Data files are also available at: https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project/110641/version/V1/view