District Demographics
The City of San Antonio is made up of 10 City Council Districts. Find out which City Council District you call home and explore the characteristics of all 10 below.
City Council Profiles
SA2020’s City Council profiles disaggregate community data by geography. Doing so offers a deeper understanding of San Antonio’s progress, long-standing inequities, and the targeted, race-conscious interventions necessary to reach the shared Community Vision.
Note: In 2022, following the 2020 Census, San Antonio City Council approved new district boundaries that went into effect following the May 2023 election. Unless otherwise noted, SA2020’s City Council data uses the new district boundaries.
Historical Context: Redlining
Making sense of San Antonio’s progress and inequities requires first learning about the history of redlining. This map recreates the “residential security maps” or redlining maps created in 1935 by the federal government to subsidize housing for White people and discriminate against people of color.
Grade A: neighborhoods shaded in green, “the best” for investments
Grade B: neighborhoods shaded in blue, “still desirable”
Grade C: neighborhoods shaded in yellow, “definitely declining”
Grade D: neighborhoods shaded in red, “hazardous”
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Select City Council Data
These maps and charts show select community indicators by City Council District. To see more data, download the full report.
Housing Cost Burdened
Population in Poverty
Population Without Health Insurance
Computer & Broadband Access
Educational Attainment
Carpool or Public Transit Use
Municipal Voter Turnout
Housing Cost Burdened
Population in Poverty
Population Without Health Insurance
Computer & Broadband Access
Educational Attainment
Carpool or Public Transit Use
Municipal Voter Turnout
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Methodology & Sources
Thank you to Mapping Inequality, a project of the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab, Virginia Tech, the University of Maryland, and the Johns Hopkins University, for making San Antonio’s redlining maps available for digital download. The original map scan is from UTSA Special Collections.
In May 2022, the City of San Antonio Department of Information Technology Services, GIS Unit provided the overlays of precinct IDs and census tracts for the ten City Council Districts and those outside the City of San Antonio boundaries. The tracts and precincts note intersecting acreage across Council Districts, precincts, and census tracts by percentage.
For voter data, SA2020 used the precinct overlays and percentages aligned to Council Districts in 2021 and 2022. Bexar County Elections Data by precinct was then calculated for the November 2022 Midterm Election and the May 2021 Municipal Election. For all census data, SA2020 used the census tract overlays and percentages that align to the approved new district boundaries that go into effect after the May 2023 election. Bexar County Census Tracts from the US Census Data, American Community Survey 5-Year estimates from 2021 was then calculated for all other data on this page. SA2020 used these percentages to disaggregate indicators by Council District. This assumes population is evenly distributed across acreage. In instances where percentages do not add up to 100%, it is due to rounding.
The 5-year estimates from the ACS are estimates that represent data collected over a 60-month period. Because the ACS is based on a sample, ACS estimates have a degree of uncertainty associated with them, called sampling (or margin of) error. The primary advantage of using multiyear estimates is the increased statistical reliability of the data for less populated areas and small population subgroups. SA2020 uses 5-year estimates because we are examining census tracts aligned to Council Districts. For more information on using ACS data, see Understanding and Using American Survey Data: What All Data Users Need to Know.
When we can’t measure all of something, like people in a city, we sample them—measure only some to get an idea (estimate) of what’s true for everyone. Sampling introduces error and uncertainty, and the margin of error—for example, “plus or minus three percentage points”— is a measure of how much uncertainty there is. The smaller the sample in relation to the total population, generally, the larger the margin of error. (Source: Alamo Regional Data Alliance)
- Bexar County Elections Department
- US Census Data, American Community Survey, 5-Year Estimate 2021
- City of San Antonio Department of Information Technology Services, GIS Unit
Downloads
Download the Report
Download the profile of an individual Council District or the full report, showing data for the City of San Antonio, Bexar County, and all 10 Council Districts.
Download the Data
SA2020 has also made the raw data available. Download the data for each indicator, City Council District, the City of San Antonio, and Bexar County. We invite you to further ask critical questions, inform research, and create visualizations.
