1970 Census of Housing: Housing characteristics for states, cities, and counties, Volume 1U.S. Department of Commerce, Social and Economic Statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census, 1972 |
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1949 or earlier acres base for derived based on sample BATHTUB OR SHOWER Built-in electric units cash rent Median census CLOTHES DRYER Coal or coke COMPLETE BATHROOMS complete kitchen facilities Counties Rural Occupied Data based derived figures percent Excludes one-family homes farm Total Rural FLUSH TOILET Fuel oil FUEL Utility gas heaters with flue heaters without flue HEATING FUEL Utility home or trailer hot water household No complete Inhabitants kerosene Less than $30 LP gas meaning of symbols Medion Metropolitan Statistical Areas minimum base Mobile home MOVED INTO UNIT Negro occupied housing units Occupied rural farm owner occupied units PERSONS PER ROOM PIPED WATER pipeless furnace plumbing facilities Population in housing RENT Specified renter renter occupied units Room heaters rural farm Total Rural Occupied rural Rural Total Rural Spanish Language Standard Metropolitan Statistical Total Rural Occupied Total Rural Total UNITS IN STRUCTURE Wood Electricity year-round housing units year-round units
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Page 3 - Include at least: a) One city with 50,000 or more Inhabitants, or b) Two cities having contiguous boundaries and constituting, for general economic and social purposes, a single community with a combined population of at least 50,000, the smaller of which must have a population of at least 15,000.
Page 3 - URBANIZED AREAS The major objective of the Census Bureau in delineating urbanized areas is to provide a better separation of urban and rural population in the vicinity of the larger cities. An urbanized area consists of a central city, or cities, and surrounding closely settled territory.
Page 4 - ... twin cities" with a combined population of at least 50,000. In addition to the county, or counties, containing such a city or cities, contiguous counties are included in an SMSA if, according to certain criteria, they are socially and economically integrated with the central city.
Page 8 - ... New units not yet occupied are classified as vacant housing units if construction has reached a point where all exterior windows and doors are installed and final usable floors are in place. Vacant units are excluded if...
Page 1 - Alaska), and towns (except in the New England States, New York, and Wisconsin), but excluding those persons living in the rural portions of extended cities; (b) unincorporated places of 2,500 inhabitants or more; and (c) other territory, incorporated or unincorporated, included in urbanized areas.
Page 3 - Enumeration districts in unincorporated territory with a population density of 1,000 inhabitants or more per square mile. (The areas of large nonresidential tracts devoted to such urban land uses as railroad yards, factories, and cemeteries were excluded in computing the population density of an enumeration district) 5.
Page 3 - States, a standard metropolitan statistical area is a county or group of contiguous counties which contains at least one city of 50,000 inhabitants or more, or "twin cities" with a combined population of at least 50,000.
Page 8 - With more than one bathroom.- A housing unit is classified as having a complete bathroom if it has a room with a flush toilet and bathtub or shower for the exclusive use of the occupants of the unit and a wash basin, as well as piped hot water in the structure.
Page 3 - First, in the 1960 census (but not in the 1970, 1980, or 1990 censuses), certain towns in the New England States, townships in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and Arlington County, Virginia, were designated as urban. However, most of these "special rule...
Page 3 - ... 1. Incorporated places with 2,500 inhabitants or more. 2. Incorporated places with less than 2,500 inhabitants, provided each has a closely settled area of 100 housing units or more. 3. Towns in the New England States, townships in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and counties elsewhere which are classified as urban.