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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 VA-08 congressional-district VA VA-08
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
788825 168494 318534 301797 133323 6.92 50.56 3.36 779100 0.4564 5.41 400529 102520 97744 163706 380314
field source
demographics Census ACS 2023
official
jurisdiction
congressional-district
va
2026-07-03

VA-08

Congressional district VA-08.

Demographics (ACS 2023)

Measure Value
Population 788825
Under 18 168494
1864 318534
65+ 301797
Median household income 133323
Poverty rate 6.92
Homeownership rate 50.56
Unemployment rate 3.36
Median home value 779100
Gini index 0.4564
Vacancy rate 5.41
White 400529
Black 102520
Asian 97744
Hispanic/Latino 163706
Bachelor's or higher 380314

Source

  • demographics: Census ACS 2023