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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 Mercer County, NJ county 34021 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
385864 84828 239479 61557 100645 10.27 62.15 6.31 377700 0.4926 4.65 178342 71211 48018 5214 89099 174244
to rel area_weight
us/states/nj/districts/12 in-district 0.5666
to rel area_weight
us/states/nj/districts/03 in-district 0.4332
to rel area_weight
us/states/nj/districts/senate/15 in-district 0.5796
to rel area_weight
us/states/nj/districts/senate/14 in-district 0.3395
to rel area_weight
us/states/nj/districts/senate/16 in-district 0.0806
to rel area_weight
us/states/nj/districts/house/15 in-district 0.5796
to rel area_weight
us/states/nj/districts/house/14 in-district 0.3395
to rel area_weight
us/states/nj/districts/house/16 in-district 0.0806
field source
demographics Census ACS 2023
field source
districts PostGIS area-intersection over Census TIGER 2024 boundaries
official
jurisdiction
county
nj
2026-07-03

Mercer County, NJ

County jurisdiction — 1 officeholders mapped.

Demographics (ACS 2023)

Measure Value
Population 385864
Under 18 84828
1864 239479
65+ 61557
Median household income 100645
Poverty rate 10.27
Homeownership rate 62.15
Unemployment rate 6.31
Median home value 377700
Gini index 0.4926
Vacancy rate 4.65
White 178342
Black 71211
Asian 48018
Native 5214
Hispanic/Latino 89099
Bachelor's or higher 174244

Districts

Source

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