Massachusetts 2000 Urban Boundaries

Urban Boundaries Map

Overview

In 2000, the Census Bureau used the Census Block Group data to designate the urban boundaries by following the Census Bureau maintained road segments called TIGER. The Office of Transportation Planning, in cooperation with the regional planning agencies, adjusted the boundaries to follow the Road Inventory street segments, municipal boundaries, railroads, or water bodies. This polygon datalayer represents the final version of the adjusted urban boundaries, which is used to determine the Road Inventory official roadway functional classification.

Production

The urban boundaries were digitized with the aid of 1:5000 road inventory, rail lines, streams, and MassGIS survey-level town boundaries

Attributes

Item Name Contents

URBANAREANAME

Urban area name

URBANAREACODE

Code for use with HPMS to identify each urban area. Numerical code represents urban areas, while lettered code represents urban clusters.

URBANRURAL

Indicates the type of urban area:
Urbanized Area = Densely settled territory that contains 50,000 people or more.
Urban Cluster = Densely settled territory that contains at least 5,000 people but fewer than 50,000 people.

URBANCODE

The numerical representation of the data in the URBANRURAL field:
1 = Urbanized Area
2 = Urban Cluster
*** Remaining area is rural and is denoted as URBANTYPE = 5 in the Road Inventory file.***

Status

This data is current as of 2000.

Download Data

File Name Format

UrbanBoundary.zip (4.2 MB)

Zipped Geodatabase