New Haven County Road Network Shapefile for 2021

2021 road data for New Haven County, Connecticut, extracted from the U.S. Census Bureau's national MAF/TIGER Database. The shapefile includes all road and path features, such as primary roads, city streets, bike paths, and private service roads. It is designed to be used independently or combined with other county files for national coverage.

Use Cases

• Calculate road network density and connectivity metrics using the linear feature geometry for urban planning.
• Analyze the distribution of road types (e.g., primary, secondary, bike paths) within New Haven County for transportation infrastructure assessment.
• Geocode addresses by joining this street centerline data with address range information from related database files.
• Create basemaps for GIS applications by visualizing the comprehensive road network, including alleys, ramps, and pedestrian trails.

Strengths

• Data originates from the authoritative U.S. Census Bureau MAF/TIGER Database, ensuring national consistency.
• Comprehensive coverage includes all road and path feature classes, from highways to walkways and private service roads.
• The shapefile is topologically integrated, representing a seamless file with no overlaps or gaps at the national level.

Limitations

• The dataset is static for the 2021 reference year and does not reflect road network changes after that date.
• Specific quantitative details like total row count (road segments), file size, and column schema are not provided in the input.
• As a single county extract, analysis of regional or state-level patterns requires combining multiple separate files.

Provenance

Source

U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce

Collection Method

Extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database.

Time Range

2021

Freshness

Data reflects the 2021 reference year; the metadata was last updated in November 2022.

Geography

New Haven County, Connecticut, United States