S T E P 3 : S E A R CH F O R YOU R A R E A .
To view a detailed map of your county, we must next filter our results by geography. The first step in doing so is selecting the “filter” option that now appears under our “maps” selection, as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4: Selecting search result filters.
After clicking “filter,” a new window with filt er options appears, as displayed in Figure 5. On the left-hand side, the “browse filters” list includes filtering by topics, geography, years, surveys, and codes. Because we are interested in seeing results for a particular area, we select “geography.” This action opens additional options that allow us to provide more information about what kind of geography we would like to see on our map. Recall from our introductory section that the Census Bureau uses statistical geographies to provide data. Each county is divided into census tracts, and each census tract is further divided into census block groups. Census block groups are areas with populations of 600 to 3,000 and will give us a good level of detail. We select “block group” from the geography list. Finally, we navigate to our state and county of choice. The next filter option allows us to pick a state. For this example, we want to know more about remote education barriers in a Virginia county, so we select “Virginia.” You can follow along or select your state. Within your chosen state, we now see a list of counties, and for this example, we select “Patrick County, Virginia;” again, you may navigate to your county instead. As a final step, we click the box that confirms we would like to see a map for “all block groups within Patrick County, Virginia.” Once we are done with our selection, we click the “done” button on the top -right side of the filter window to collapse the filtering panel and return to our results.
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