Colorado shape files from census bureau

This function simply wraps tigris::zctas() to grab the zip code shape files for later plotting.

zipcode_shapes(
  state = "colorado",
  year = 2010,
  ...,
  progress_bar = interactive()
)

Arguments

state	character(1) default 'colorado', passed directly to tigris::zctas()
year	integer(1) default 2010, passed directly to tigris::zctas()
...	passed directly to tigris::zctas()

Geographic level

• zipcode

See also

Other Data resources: cdc_places(), cdc_social_vulnerability_index(), cell_line_ancestry(), census_tract_zip_crosswalk(), rural_zips()

Examples

zipshapes = zipcode_shapes()
#> ZCTAs can take several minutes to download.  To cache the data and avoid re-downloading in future R sessions, set `options(tigris_use_cache = TRUE)`

tmap::tmap_mode('plot')
#> tmap mode set to plotting

tmap::tm_shape(zipshapes) +
  tmap::tm_fill('ALAND10') +
  tmap::tm_borders(col="gray",alpha=0.5) +
  tmap::tm_basemap("Esri.WorldStreetMap")