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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 Harris County, TX county 48201 TX
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
4838303 1253071 3018084 567148 74983 16.25 54.72 6.73 276600 0.5021 8.38 1666127 919291 355427 49729 2126581 1483440
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us/states/tx/districts/38 in-district 0.175
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/02 in-district 0.1695
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/36 in-district 0.1557
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/18 in-district 0.1307
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/08 in-district 0.1291
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/29 in-district 0.1178
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/09 in-district 0.0687
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/07 in-district 0.0406
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/22 in-district 0.0103
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/senate/6 in-district 0.189
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/senate/7 in-district 0.1881
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/senate/15 in-district 0.1462
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/senate/4 in-district 0.1436
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/senate/11 in-district 0.0971
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/senate/13 in-district 0.0901
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/senate/17 in-district 0.0737
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/senate/18 in-district 0.0685
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/house/128 in-district 0.1199
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/house/130 in-district 0.0899
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/house/132 in-district 0.0844
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/house/127 in-district 0.0621
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/house/142 in-district 0.0613
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/house/129 in-district 0.0563
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/house/141 in-district 0.0528
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/house/143 in-district 0.0505
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/house/150 in-district 0.0434
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/house/138 in-district 0.0382
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/house/144 in-district 0.033
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/house/149 in-district 0.0298
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/house/131 in-district 0.0288
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/house/126 in-district 0.0286
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/house/140 in-district 0.0271
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/house/148 in-district 0.0266
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/house/139 in-district 0.025
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/house/147 in-district 0.0238
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/house/146 in-district 0.0236
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/house/135 in-district 0.0216
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/house/145 in-district 0.0207
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/house/134 in-district 0.0186
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/house/133 in-district 0.0185
to rel area_weight
us/states/tx/districts/house/137 in-district 0.0116
field source
demographics Census ACS 2023
field source
districts PostGIS area-intersection over Census TIGER 2024 boundaries
official
jurisdiction
county
tx
2026-07-03

Harris County, TX

County jurisdiction — 10 officeholders mapped.

Demographics (ACS 2023)

Measure Value
Population 4838303
Under 18 1253071
1864 3018084
65+ 567148
Median household income 74983
Poverty rate 16.25
Homeownership rate 54.72
Unemployment rate 6.73
Median home value 276600
Gini index 0.5021
Vacancy rate 8.38
White 1666127
Black 919291
Asian 355427
Native 49729
Hispanic/Latino 2126581
Bachelor's or higher 1483440

Districts

Source

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