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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 Whatcom County, WA county 53073 WA
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
230503 42743 144192 43568 81784 12.88 63.71 4.78 585800 0.4618 9.18 179852 2213 10078 4102 24461 85596
to rel area_weight
us/states/wa/districts/02 in-district 0.866
to rel area_weight
us/states/wa/districts/senate/42 in-district 0.8225
to rel area_weight
us/states/wa/districts/senate/40 in-district 0.0426
to rel area_weight
us/states/wa/districts/house/42 in-district 0.8225
to rel area_weight
us/states/wa/districts/house/40 in-district 0.0426
field source
demographics Census ACS 2023
field source
districts PostGIS area-intersection over Census TIGER 2024 boundaries
official
jurisdiction
county
wa
2026-07-03

Whatcom County, WA

County jurisdiction — 2 officeholders mapped.

Demographics (ACS 2023)

Measure Value
Population 230503
Under 18 42743
1864 144192
65+ 43568
Median household income 81784
Poverty rate 12.88
Homeownership rate 63.71
Unemployment rate 4.78
Median home value 585800
Gini index 0.4618
Vacancy rate 9.18
White 179852
Black 2213
Asian 10078
Native 4102
Hispanic/Latino 24461
Bachelor's or higher 85596

Districts

Source

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