Voting District Outline Map A county-based map showing VTD names and codes, VTD boundaries and underlying features, boundaries and names of AIANAs, county subdivisions, and places. These maps are available only as electrostatic plots, and cover only those counties for which States delineated VTDs in the 1990 census.
VTD See voting district.
Ward A type of local electoral subdivision of an incorporated place or MCD; a type of MCD formerly recognized by the Census Bureau in Louisiana; officially called a police jury ward. See also voting district.
Wholesale trade (census) See economic census.
Whole-town CDP For the 1980 census only, a CDP coextensive with an MCD in one of the nine Northeastern States, Michigan, or Wisconsin. At least 95 percent of the MCD’s population and 80 percent of its land area had to qualify as urban under the UA criteria. The Census Bureau did not tabulate data for this entity for the 1990 census.
ZIP (Zone Improvement Plan) Code A five-, seven-, nine-, or eleven-digit code assigned by the U.S. Postal Service to a section of a street, a collection of streets, an establishment, structure, or group of post office boxes, for the delivery of mail.
Zona Urbana (ZU) In Puerto Rico, the area consisting of the municipio seat of government and the adjacent built-up area. ZUs are delineated using a process similar to that for comunidades, except that ZUs have no minimum population threshold for qualification and cannot cross municipio boundaries. See also census designated place, comunidad.
Zone Improvement Plan (ZIP) See ZIP Code.
ZU See zona urbana.
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