# Source rights and citation

The bundled statistical tables, Gazetteer reference and Census-produced cartographic geometry are works of the U.S. Census Bureau. Data/works produced by Census Bureau employees generally are not subject to copyright protection within the United States. No third-party postal ZIP directory has been copied or relicensed in this package.

Official source policy: U.S. Census Bureau, *Research Transparency and Public Access*, DS-027:
https://www2.census.gov/foia/ds_policies/ds027.pdf

Citation guidance:
https://www.census.gov/about/policies/citation.html

Please retain this attribution with derivatives:

U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 Gazetteer; 2020 and 2024 Cartographic Boundary Files; 2020–2024 American Community Survey 5-year Detailed Tables B01003 (population), B19013 (median household income), B01002 (median age), B25001 (housing units). Prepared by GeoDataViewer. All original source files, checksums and transformations are documented in manifest.json, fields.json and README.md.

The generalized polygon previews are provided for web mapping and statistical joins. They are not legal or survey boundaries. No Census endorsement of GeoDataViewer is implied.