California Census Designated Places (CDPs)

Related Layers This dataset is part of a grouping of many datasets: Cities: Only the city boundaries and attributes, without any unincorporated areas With Coastal Buffers Without Coastal Buffers Counties: Full county boundaries and attributes, including all cities within as a single polygon With Coastal Buffers Without Coastal Buffers Cities and Full Counties: A merge of the other two layers, so polygons overlap within city boundaries. Some customers require this behavior, so we provide it as a separate service. With Coastal Buffers Without Coastal Buffers City and County Abbreviations Unincorporated Areas (Coming Soon) Census Designated Places (this dataset) 2024 Census Designated Places Cartographic Coastline Polygon Line source (Coming Soon) State Boundary With Bay Cuts Without Bay Cuts Point of Contact California Department of Technology, Office of Digital Services, [e-mail] Field and Abbreviation Definitions STATEFP: State FIPS code, in this case, California is 06. PLACEFP: Five digit FIPS place code. PLACENS: An assigned an eight-digit National Standard (NS) code. GEOID: Place identifier; a concatenation of the current state FIPS code and place FIPS code GEOIDFQ: facilitates joining Census Bureau spatial data to Census Bureau summary file data from data.census.gov NAME: Designated place name. NAMELSAD: describe the particular typology for each geographic entity. LSAD: Legal/ statistical area description. CLASSFP: defines the current FIPS class of a geographic entity. PCICBSA: Current metropolitan or micropolitan statistical area principal city indicator. MTFCC: (MAF/TIGER Feature Class Code) A five character code assigned by the Census Bureau intended to classify and describe geographic objects or features. FUNCSTAT: defines the current functional status of a geographic entity. ALAND: Current land area. AWATER: Current water area. INTPTLAT: Current latitude of the internal point. INTPTLON: Current longitude of the internal point. Offline Use This service is fully enabled for sync and export using Esri Field Maps or other similar tools. Importantly, the GlobalID field exists only to support that use case and should not be used for any other purpose (see note in field descriptions). Updates and Date of Processing Data updated to 2025 data as of 12/22/2025. 2024 Census Designated Places data