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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 Buchanan County, VA county 51027 VA
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
19415 3252 11530 4633 42886 25.22 83.07 3.86 94900 0.4653 27.04 18205 751 152 8 213 2522
to rel area_weight
us/states/va/districts/09 in-district 0.9989
to rel area_weight
us/states/va/districts/senate/6 in-district 0.9991
to rel area_weight
us/states/va/districts/house/43 in-district 0.9992
field source
demographics Census ACS 2023
field source
districts PostGIS area-intersection over Census TIGER 2024 boundaries
official
jurisdiction
county
va
2026-07-03

Buchanan County, VA

County jurisdiction.

Demographics (ACS 2023)

Measure Value
Population 19415
Under 18 3252
1864 11530
65+ 4633
Median household income 42886
Poverty rate 25.22
Homeownership rate 83.07
Unemployment rate 3.86
Median home value 94900
Gini index 0.4653
Vacancy rate 27.04
White 18205
Black 751
Asian 152
Native 8
Hispanic/Latino 213
Bachelor's or higher 2522

Districts

Source

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