The U.S. Census Bureau has released updated Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER)/Line files for 2025, providing data users with new tools to create custom maps using various data sources.
The new release includes Current Suffixed Blocks Geodatabases and GeoPackages. These contain both 2020 and current block information, as well as suffixes that indicate blocks split since 2020. Users can connect this information to the Census Bureau’s address count listing files.
Geospatial data in these products cover legal, administrative, and statistical boundaries, along with features such as roads and hydrography. The geographic boundary data can be linked to future demographic datasets from 2025 on data.census.gov, which will allow users to display census tabular data visually on a map.
While TIGER/Line files do not include demographic information themselves, they have geographic entity codes (GEOIDs) that make it possible to connect them with demographic datasets from the Census Bureau. For those needing assistance selecting the right product, guidance is available through the TIGER Data Products Guide page.
There is no separate news release for this product; it was distributed via a tip sheet.
