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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, state, district, demographics, sources, confidence, tags, timestamp
type title classification state district demographics sources confidence tags timestamp
Jurisdiction TX-18 congressional-district TX TX-18
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 hispanic bachelors_plus
825192 228069 331439 265684 66803 21.0 45.48 7.89 270600 0.5199 10.01 195343 248187 36944 394724 160761
field source
demographics Census ACS 2023
official
jurisdiction
congressional-district
tx
2026-07-03

TX-18

Congressional district TX-18.

Demographics (ACS 2023)

Measure Value
Population 825192
Under 18 228069
1864 331439
65+ 265684
Median household income 66803
Poverty rate 21.0
Homeownership rate 45.48
Unemployment rate 7.89
Median home value 270600
Gini index 0.5199
Vacancy rate 10.01
White 195343
Black 248187
Asian 36944
Hispanic/Latino 394724
Bachelor's or higher 160761

Source

  • demographics: Census ACS 2023