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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 Essex County, NJ county 34013 NJ
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
863002 203641 536721 122640 80789 14.64 44.9 8.72 524100 0.5438 5.1 259184 312703 52093 4603 217167 326308
to rel area_weight
us/states/nj/districts/11 in-district 0.5868
to rel area_weight
us/states/nj/districts/10 in-district 0.3652
to rel area_weight
us/states/nj/districts/08 in-district 0.0465
to rel area_weight
us/states/nj/districts/senate/27 in-district 0.3552
to rel area_weight
us/states/nj/districts/senate/40 in-district 0.2184
to rel area_weight
us/states/nj/districts/senate/34 in-district 0.1512
to rel area_weight
us/states/nj/districts/senate/29 in-district 0.1496
to rel area_weight
us/states/nj/districts/senate/28 in-district 0.1157
to rel area_weight
us/states/nj/districts/house/27 in-district 0.3552
to rel area_weight
us/states/nj/districts/house/40 in-district 0.2184
to rel area_weight
us/states/nj/districts/house/34 in-district 0.1512
to rel area_weight
us/states/nj/districts/house/29 in-district 0.1496
to rel area_weight
us/states/nj/districts/house/28 in-district 0.1157
field source
demographics Census ACS 2023
field source
districts PostGIS area-intersection over Census TIGER 2024 boundaries
official
jurisdiction
county
nj
2026-07-03

Essex County, NJ

County jurisdiction — 2 officeholders mapped.

Demographics (ACS 2023)

Measure Value
Population 863002
Under 18 203641
1864 536721
65+ 122640
Median household income 80789
Poverty rate 14.64
Homeownership rate 44.9
Unemployment rate 8.72
Median home value 524100
Gini index 0.5438
Vacancy rate 5.1
White 259184
Black 312703
Asian 52093
Native 4603
Hispanic/Latino 217167
Bachelor's or higher 326308

Districts

Source

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