Information on each state — state_info • fivethirtyeight

State name, abbreviation, US Census designated division & region.

state_info

Format

A data frame with 51 rows representing airlines and 4 variables:

state: State name
state_abbrev: State abbreviation
division: US Census designated division. Values for division are nested within region
region: US Census designated region

Source

US Census Bureau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_of_the_United_States#Interstate_regions.

Examples

library(dplyr)
# Number of states in each division
state_info %>%
  count(division)
#> # A tibble: 9 × 2
#>   division               n
#>   <chr>              <int>
#> 1 East North Central     5
#> 2 East South Central     4
#> 3 Mid-Atlantic           3
#> 4 Mountain               8
#> 5 New England            6
#> 6 Pacific                5
#> 7 South Atlantic         9
#> 8 West North Central     7
#> 9 West South Central     4
# Number of states in each region
state_info %>%
  count(region)
#> # A tibble: 4 × 2
#>   region        n
#>   <chr>     <int>
#> 1 Midwest      12
#> 2 Northeast     9
#> 3 South        17
#> 4 West         13