Census Blocks

This map shows the boundaries of tract, blockgroup and block boundaries used to reference U.S. Census data. Five other maps are derived from data from the U.S. Census of 1980 (the 1990 Census was not available during the original WPLP project). These maps include information on unemployment, income, racial/ethnic distribution, building vacancy rates, and population change from 1970 to 1980. The image below is from zooming in on the Walnut Hill and Garden Court neighborhoods.


Source: U.S. Census

A summary of 1990 census data for West Philadelphia can found at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries web site. The Van Pelt Library also makes available full data sets on CD ROM in the library.


This site is maintained by the Webmaster at wplp@pobox.upenn.edu

Last Update: 23 July 1997