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<idAbs>&lt;div&gt;Census Block Groups for Macon-Bibb County.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;p style='margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;'&gt;&lt;font color='#000000' face='Calibri' size='3'&gt;Block Groups (BGs) are statistical divisions of census
tracts, are generally defined to contain between 600 and 3,000 people and are
used to present data and control block numbering.&lt;span style='margin: 0px;'&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;A block group consists of clusters of blocks
within the same census tract that have the same first digit of their four-digit
census block number.&lt;span style='margin: 0px;'&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;For example, blocks
3001, 3002, 3003, . . ., 3999 in census tract 1210.02 belong to BG 3 in that
census tract.&lt;span style='margin: 0px;'&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Most BGs were delineated
by local participants in the Census Bureau's Participant Statistical Areas
Program.&lt;span style='margin: 0px;'&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The Census Bureau delineated
BGs only where a local or tribal government declined to participate, and a
regional organization or State Data Center was not available to participate.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;p style='margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;'&gt;&lt;font color='#000000' face='Calibri' size='3'&gt;A BG usually covers a contiguous area.&lt;span style='margin: 0px;'&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Each census tract contains at least one BG,
and BGs are uniquely numbered within the census tract.&lt;span style='margin: 0px;'&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Within the standard census geographic
hierarchy, BGs never cross state, county, or census tract boundaries but may
cross the boundaries of any other geographic entity.&lt;span style='margin: 0px;'&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Tribal census tracts and tribal BGs are
separate and unique geographic areas defined within federally recognized
American Indian reservations and can cross state and county boundaries (see
&amp;quot;&lt;a href='https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/gtc/gtc_tr_ct.html' target='_blank'&gt;Tribal Census Tract&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;&lt;a href='https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/gtc/gtc_tr_bg.html' target='_blank'&gt;Tribal Block Group&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;).&lt;span style='margin: 0px;'&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The tribal census tracts and tribal block
groups may be completely different from the census tracts and block groups
defined by state and county.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;p style='margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;'&gt;&lt;font color='#000000' face='Calibri' size='3'&gt;Block Group Codes—BGs have a valid code range of 0 through
9.&lt;span style='margin: 0px;'&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;BGs beginning with a zero only
contain water area and are generally in coastal and Great Lakes water and
territorial seas, but also in larger inland water bodies.&lt;span style='margin: 0px;'&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;For the 2010 Census, a block group 0 for the
water portion can be delineated in any census tract and not just those census
tracts also defined to only include water area.&lt;span style='margin: 0px;'&gt; 
&lt;/span&gt;This is a change from Census 2000, when block groups coded 0 only
existed in census tracts with a code of 0.&lt;span style='margin: 0px;'&gt; 
&lt;/span&gt;To differentiate between county-based block groups and tribal block
groups, the codes for tribal block groups use an alphabetic character (see
&amp;quot;&lt;a href='https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/gtc/gtc_tr_bg.html' target='_blank'&gt;Tribal Block Group&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;).&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;'&gt;&lt;font color='#b00000' face='Calibri' size='3'&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;p style='margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;'&gt;For more information about Census Block Groups or the US Census Bureau visit &lt;a href='https://www.census.gov/en.html' target='_blank'&gt;https://www.census.gov&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

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