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Fabio 1beeaab2db Graph: national county↔district↔legislator authority layer
The first edges in the repo. Every US county now links to the districts it
sits in, weighted by area overlap, and every legislator links to the district
they represent — county → district → representative, traversable.

Data (PostGIS, no Atlas dependency — computed directly from geometry):
- data/county_district_edges.jsonl — 16,328 weighted edges. area_weight =
  ST_Area(ST_Intersection(county, district))/ST_Area(county) over ST_MakeValid
  Census TIGER 2024 geometries, overlaps <0.5% dropped. Uses area-intersection,
  NOT centroid-in-polygon, so urban districts that carve through counties
  (e.g. GA CD-5 / Atlanta across Clayton+DeKalb+Fulton) are captured, not
  silently dropped. Per-county weights sum to ~1.0 per district type.

build.py:
- ~6,896 new district nodes: 435 CD (ACS demographics where available; sparse
  for the 8 states missing from acs_cd) + 4,927 state-house + 1,897 state-senate
  (geometry-only). GEOID/number-keyed, stable.
- county index.md gains a `districts:` block (frontmatter) + a ## Districts
  section (body links, so link-integrity checks them).
- legislators + US House members gain `represents:` pointing at their district
  node; edge stored once on the person, inverse left to the view.
- schemas/jurisdiction: classification enum + chamber/districts fields.

Honest gaps (logged, not hidden): ID + NH have no state-house geometry, so
their house districts get nodes (represents resolves) but no county edges;
CD nodes for acs_cd-missing states are demographically sparse.

Deterministic (byte-identical rebuild); validate.py passes 26,617 records,
link-integrity clean (every district/represents link resolves).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-04 22:28:08 -04:00

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type, title, classification, fips, state, demographics, districts, sources, confidence, tags, timestamp
type title classification fips state demographics districts sources confidence tags timestamp
Jurisdiction Howard County, MD county 24027 MD
population population_under_18 population_18_64 population_65_plus median_household_income poverty_rate homeownership_rate unemployment_rate median_home_value gini_index vacancy_rate race_white race_black race_asian race_native hispanic bachelors_plus
336328 79917 205136 51275 149763 5.23 71.48 3.49 597900 0.4136 3.37 157552 67150 64745 1091 29135 226665
to rel area_weight
us/states/md/districts/03 in-district 0.9939
to rel area_weight
us/states/md/districts/senate/9 in-district 0.6204
to rel area_weight
us/states/md/districts/senate/13 in-district 0.2691
to rel area_weight
us/states/md/districts/senate/12 in-district 0.1096
to rel area_weight
us/states/md/districts/house/9a in-district 0.5414
to rel area_weight
us/states/md/districts/house/13 in-district 0.2691
to rel area_weight
us/states/md/districts/house/12a in-district 0.1096
to rel area_weight
us/states/md/districts/house/9b in-district 0.0789
field source
demographics Census ACS 2023
field source
districts PostGIS area-intersection over Census TIGER 2024 boundaries
official
jurisdiction
county
md
2026-07-03

Howard County, MD

County jurisdiction.

Demographics (ACS 2023)

Measure Value
Population 336328
Under 18 79917
1864 205136
65+ 51275
Median household income 149763
Poverty rate 5.23
Homeownership rate 71.48
Unemployment rate 3.49
Median home value 597900
Gini index 0.4136
Vacancy rate 3.37
White 157552
Black 67150
Asian 64745
Native 1091
Hispanic/Latino 29135
Bachelor's or higher 226665

Districts

Source

  • demographics: Census ACS 2023
  • districts: PostGIS area-intersection over Census TIGER 2024 boundaries