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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 Gaston County, NC county 37071 NC
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
234881 52696 143418 38767 67478 13.52 66.85 4.76 266000 0.4683 7.96 160677 41145 4032 912 23213 57085
to rel area_weight
us/states/nc/districts/14 in-district 0.9995
to rel area_weight
us/states/nc/districts/senate/43 in-district 0.8192
to rel area_weight
us/states/nc/districts/senate/44 in-district 0.1802
to rel area_weight
us/states/nc/districts/house/108 in-district 0.3948
to rel area_weight
us/states/nc/districts/house/110 in-district 0.3612
to rel area_weight
us/states/nc/districts/house/109 in-district 0.2433
field source
demographics Census ACS 2023
field source
districts PostGIS area-intersection over Census TIGER 2024 boundaries
official
jurisdiction
county
nc
2026-07-03

Gaston County, NC

County jurisdiction — 3 officeholders mapped.

Demographics (ACS 2023)

Measure Value
Population 234881
Under 18 52696
1864 143418
65+ 38767
Median household income 67478
Poverty rate 13.52
Homeownership rate 66.85
Unemployment rate 4.76
Median home value 266000
Gini index 0.4683
Vacancy rate 7.96
White 160677
Black 41145
Asian 4032
Native 912
Hispanic/Latino 23213
Bachelor's or higher 57085

Districts

Source

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