Census 2000 U.S. Gazetteer Files

This page provides links to Census 2000 gazetteer files for counties, county subdivisions (minor civil divisions/census county divisions), places, and ZIP Code tabulation areas (ZCTAs) for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. The files contained on this Web page were extracted from the Census 2000 Summary File 1 (SF1) DVD with Software Enhancement (Product Id: V1-D00-S1S1-08-US1). For more information about this product refer to the Census Bureau's online catalog, accessible from the Census Bureau Home page.

NOTES:

• The file layouts are at the foot of this page.
• With the exception of Puerto Rico, Island Areas are not included in these files.
• The vintage of the geography in these files is Census 2000 (that is, as of January 1, 2000).
• Because of changes in boundaries and entity names, as well as the creation of new entities, and the dissolution of others, users should not expect to find a "one-to-one" relationship between the entity names and codes in these files to the comparable 1990 Census files. We do not plan to document either boundary or entity changes between censuses in these files.
• ZCTAs are statistical entities developed by the U.S. Census Bureau for tabulating summary statistics from Census 2000. This new entity was developed to overcome the difficulties in precisely defining the land area covered by each ZIP Code. For further details see the ZIP Code Tabulation Areas page.

NOTE:  The Census Bureau does not have U.S. Postal Service ZIP Code products. For current ZIP Code products, contact the U.S. Postal Service.

Before downloading any files from this page, please read FAQ numbers: 16, 20, and 28, as well as the Census Bureau's rationale for creating ZIP Code^® Tabulation Areas^TM (ZCTAs) for Census 2000.

ASCII text versions of:

• Census Tracts (66,304 records): 7MB  Record Layout
• Places: (25,375 records): 3MB  Record Layout
• Counties: (3,219 records): 512KB  Record Layout
• County Subdivisions: (36,351 records): 5MB  Record Layout
• ZCTAs (ZIP Code Tabulation Areas): (33,233 records): 5MB  Record Layout

Download compressed versions of:

• Census Tracts.zip: 2MB Download Zip Application
• Places.zip: 1MB
• Counties.zip: 158KB
• County Subdivisions.zip: 1MB
• ZCTAs.zip: 1MB
• All five files: 6MB