Transcription of Chapter 9 Places - Census.gov
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Chapter 9 Places - Census.gov
The Bureau of the Census defines a place as a concentration of population; a place may or may not have legally prescribed limits, powers, or concentration of population must have a name, be locally recognized, and not be part of any other place . A place either is legally incorporated under the laws of its respective State, or a statistical equivalent that the Census Bureau treats as a census desig-nated place (CDP). Each State enacts laws and regulations for establishingincorporated Places . The Census Bureau designates criteria of total popula-tion size, population density, and geographic configuration for delineatingCDPs. Not everyone resides in a place ; in 1990, approximately 66 millionpeople (26 percent) in the United States lived outside of any place , either insmall settlements, in the open countryside, or in the densely settled fringe of large cities in areas that were built-up, but not identifiable as Places .
places (for details, see Chapter 7, “Puerto Rico and the Outlying Areas”). Different States recognize a variety of entities as incorporated places. Usu-ally, the designations city, town, village, and borough are most frequent; how-ever, one or more places in Kentucky, Montana, Nevada, and Tennessee have
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