Agency Name
Department of City Planning (DCP)
Data Set Title
Metro Region Explorer - Municipality
Data Set Description
The municipality geography represents approximations for cities, towns, and villages within the NYC metropolitan region. The boundaries represent U.S. Census Bureau Minor County Division (MCD) geographies for all counties in New Jersey, Connecticut, and the Hudson Valley; U.S. Census Bureau Places (Places) boundaries for Long Island, unless otherwise noted; and, to represent NYC at municipality-comparable scale, DCP used the sub-borough geographies defined in the 2013 edition of The Newest New Yorkers report, Chapter 3: Settlement Patterns'€. NYC geographies represent aggregations of U.S. Census Bureau Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs). It is important to note that municipalities€ represented in this tool do not imply or consistently represent jurisdictional boundaries or governance authority. The purpose of this geography is to enable consistent longitudinal socioeconomic analysis across the region at comparable scale. When changes were detected within the study period (e.g., consolidation, renaming), data were recoded. However, it is possible that inaccuracies in the data reflect additional changes to municipal borders or Census-defined geographic entities over this period. Municipality data are not visualized for select maps due to availability limitations or reliability concerns (more about data reliability).
Url On Agency Website
https://planninglabs.carto.com/api/v2/sql?filename=municipality&q=SELECT%20%2A%20FROM%20region_municipality_v20190911&format=SHP
Update Frequency
As Needed
Scheduled For Publication
No
Public Statement Required
This data was generated from Census Data (already publicly available) and the tables used in the application are available for download within the application. The technical owners of the app/data need to determine a methodology for updating the data. If a routine data update procedure is implemented this data will be posted to the open data portal.
Status
Not Scheduled for Publication