National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA): Land Cover by ZIP Code Tabulation Area, United States, 2001-2016

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Robert Melendez, University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research; Mao Li, University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research; Anam Khan, University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research; Iris Gomez-Lopez, University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research; Philippa Clarke, University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research; Megan Chenoweth, University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research

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Project Citation:

Melendez, Robert, Li, Mao, Khan, Anam, Gomez-Lopez, Iris, Clarke, Philippa, and Chenoweth, Megan. National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA): Land Cover by ZIP Code Tabulation Area, United States, 2001-2016. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-12-14. https://doi.org/10.3886/E128862V1

Project Description

Summary: This dataset contains measures of land cover (e.g., low-, medium-, or high-density development, forest, wetland, open water) derived from the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) and aggregated by United States ZIP code tabulation area (ZCTA). Land cover is measured both in total square meters and as a proportion of all land within the ZCTA.

A curated version of this data is available through ICPSR at https://doi.org/10.3886/E110663V1

Funding Sources: United States Department of Health and Human Services. Administration for Community Living. National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (90RTHF0001); United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Aging (RF1-AG-057540)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: land cover; development density; farmland; open space; green space; blue space

Geographic Coverage: United States

Time Period(s): 2001 – 2016

Collection Date(s): 2020 – 2020

Universe:

All ZIP code tabulation areas in the continental United States. No data is available for Alaska, Hawaii, or the United States territories.

Data Type(s): aggregate data

Collection Notes: A ZIP code to ZCTA crosswalk must be used to combine this dataset with ZIP code geocoded data must use a ZIP code to ZCTA crosswalk. Such a crosswalk is available on the UDS Mapper website at https://udsmapper.org/zip-code-to-zcta-crosswalk/. Sample code for merging the UDS Mapper crosswalk with NaNDA datasets is available on the NaNDA repository at https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project/120088/.

Methodology

Data Source: Land cover measures are derived from the National Land Cover Database: https://www.mrlc.gov/data/nlcd-land-cover-conus-all-years. ZIP code tabulation area boundaries were obtained from the TIGER/Line shapefiles, 2010 census geography, 2019 version: https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2019/ZCTA5/tl_2019_us_zcta510.zip.

Unit(s) of Observation: ZIP code tabulation area

Geographic Unit: ZIP code tabulation area

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