TIGER/Census Tract Street Index®
To aid our customers in finding 1990 and 2000 census tract numbers we have created a guide to Census Tract Resources that may be helpful.
If you find that the products the Census Bureau provides are not adequate, then one of the companies on our TIGER vendor list may have a product that meets your needs.
This is a tool for HMDA/CRA reporting. This software was developed to assist banks and other lending institutions to meet their statutory reporting requirements for coding property addresses on loan applications to their 1990 Census tract. This product does not have low/moderate income designations for Census Tracts. The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council's website (FFIEC) does designate census tracts as having low or moderate income.
NOTE: The Census Bureau has not included Puerto Rico in the Census Tract Street Index (CTSI), Version 4 product because it's unique addressing system does not lend itself to the query system used in this product.
NOTE: Page 21 of the technical documentation states that the Version 4 Total Records for Wisconsin is 670,579. The correct record count is 670,578.
NOTE: There are no plans for a TIGER/CTSI 2000 release because the Census Bureau staff is busy with the release of Census 2000 products like the TIGER/Line 2000 files, Census 2000 maps and LandView 5. Considering that many CTSI users have other resources available to them for determining Census 2000 census tracts such as the FFIEC Internet Geocoding site, the American Factfinder mapping system, Census 2000 tract outline maps and LandView 5 (which is in development with planned release later this year), we feel that user's census tract geocoding needs are well served by these products.
We have discovered a problem with the TIGER/CTSI Version 3 software's reporting of metropolitan area codes. The software either fails to report a metropolitan area (MA) code when it should, or in a few situations reports the MA code incorrectly.
We now have a corrected version of the software that is available for download from this site. It is best to uninstall the current program before installing the new one. Download the Setupex.exe file (6 MB) to a folder on your hard drive. Use Start/Run to install.
NOTE to HMDA Reporters: The TIGER/CTSI Version 3 software provides the metropolitan area code based on the federal Office of Management and Budget's definition of June 30, 1996.
Because these definitions do change over time, we suggest that you visit the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council website. There you can access Appendix E: State and County Codes for Counties in Metropolitan Statistical Areas, Together with MSA Numbers of A Guide to HMDA Reporting, Getting It Right! and the 1999 Guide Information which provides the metropolitan area codes required for current reporting requirements.
