A dataset containing the unweighted population by county from the Open Census file (US only). See canada_cd_pop for Canadian county population. Merge with data(fips_to_names) to name the states and counties.

county_pop

Format

A data.table with 3220 rows and 3 variables:

unweighted_pop

Population from the 2016 American Community Survey (the "unweighted" part is outdated but kept for consistency with old code).

state_fips

State FIPS code for the county

county_fips

County FIPS code for the county