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Fabio 199d8b37d3 Municipals: nest 1,823 city officeholders under their real counties
Pull Atlas's place→county crosswalk (Census TIGER 2024 places × county
geometries, 32,041 places) into the build as a committed raw input, and
use it to resolve municipal officeholders whose county was unknown.

- data/place_county_crosswalk.jsonl — new raw input (place_geoid → county_geoid)
- build.py — place-name+state → county_geoid → ACS county slug as a fallback
  in county_slug(); city_slug() generalized to non-FL bare place labels
- data/sources/sources.yaml — provenance entry for the crosswalk

_unresolved municipals: 1919 → 58. The remainder are genuine: CT planning
regions (post-county), county-level rows mislabeled municipal upstream,
consolidated city-counties (null label), Wikidata-QID placeholder names,
and ambiguous same-name places — left unresolved rather than guessed.

Join key is county_geoid (5-digit FIPS); the directory slug is taken from
the ACS county node so municipals nest under the exact existing county dir.
Deterministic (byte-identical rebuild); validate.py passes 19,721 records.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-04 20:23:57 -04:00

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type, title, classification, fips, state, demographics, sources, confidence, tags, timestamp
type title classification fips state demographics 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
field source
demographics Census ACS 2023
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

Source

  • demographics: Census ACS 2023