Get the current (2019) centroids for U.S Zipcode Tabulation Areas from the U.S. Census Bureau. The centroids were calculated from the ZCTA boundary files available on the U.S. Census Bureau website.
See also
For documentation of and citation to the underlying shapefiles for
contemporary data from the U.S. Census Bureau, see the
census_boundaries documentation in the USAboundariesData package.
Examples
if (require(USAboundariesData)) {
us_zipcodes()
}
#> Simple feature collection with 33144 features and 6 fields
#> Geometry type: POINT
#> Dimension: XY
#> Bounding box: xmin: -176.6314 ymin: -14.22075 xmax: 145.7536 ymax: 71.27382
#> Geodetic CRS: WGS 84
#> First 10 features:
#> zipcode zcta5ce10 affgeoid10 geoid10 aland10 awater10
#> 1 35586 35586 8600000US35586 35586 472581657 892816
#> 2 72454 72454 8600000US72454 72454 263532032 775633
#> 3 71653 71653 8600000US71653 71653 817752215 89308151
#> 4 19963 19963 8600000US19963 19963 276290156 21123546
#> 5 81303 81303 8600000US81303 81303 557450510 6445737
#> 6 81640 81640 8600000US81640 81640 6160477420 11658548
#> 7 06243 06243 8600000US06243 06243 903761 257961
#> 8 06060 06060 8600000US06060 06060 31260792 2582
#> 9 93924 93924 8600000US93924 93924 491763193 1100383
#> 10 34113 34113 8600000US34113 34113 72733092 16053633
#> geometry
#> 1 POINT (-88.13867 33.87678)
#> 2 POINT (-90.20791 36.40115)
#> 3 POINT (-91.25755 33.34129)
#> 4 POINT (-75.3816 38.93615)
#> 5 POINT (-107.8911 37.11649)
#> 6 POINT (-108.5192 40.65927)
#> 7 POINT (-71.80244 41.84523)
#> 8 POINT (-72.84569 42.00703)
#> 9 POINT (-121.6407 36.399)
#> 10 POINT (-81.72777 26.04869)