Can LandView help me find the count of persons who live within 180 miles of my city?
The LandView software has an “Estimate a Population within a Radius” function that calculates the population and housing unit counts within a user specified radius from a focus point the user sets on the MARPLOT map, or from coordinates entered on the Census 2000 Population Estimator form. Two options are provided for producing the Census 2000 Population Estimate – one based on census block points and the other based on census block group points. Census tabulation blocks are the smallest geographic unit for which Census 2000 data is published (approximately 8.26 million blocks). This estimate provides the closest areal approximation of census statistical geographic units to the specified radius and would generally be used for radii smaller than 25 miles. The census block group points method (211,267 block groups) is used to tabulate the more detailed Census 2000 socioeconomic data shown in Demographic Profile tables 2-4 by census block group. Census block groups are used because socioe
