Urban County Council Redistricting 2021
Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government
The Road to Redistricting Lexington
2014
Boundary Annextion Survey (BAS) Program completed by E911 Addressing and GIS Office. LFUCG reviewed and verified the Urban County Government boundaries with U.S. Census and submitted a detail of added, deleted, and realigned streets.
2017
Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA) Program completed by E911 Addressing and GIS Office. LFUCG submitted over 17,000 suggested additions, deletions, and changes to the Census Bureau.
2019
Participant Statistical Areas Program (PSAP) completed the GIS Office. Census Tract and Block Groups redrawn for balance based on the 2010 population and housing unit counts.
New Construction Program completed as a follow up to LUCA where the LFUCG E911 Addressing Office updated the Census Bureau with those homes and living quarters built after March 1, 2018 and those that would be completed before Census Day (April 1, 2020).
2019 - 2020
Complete Count Committee established by Mayor Gorton and comprised of key local government and community members worked to devise strategies, make recommendations, and lead initiatives in order to increase Census responses of traditionally undercounted populations across local communities.
April 1, 2020
Census Day
August 12, 2021
Redistricting Summary Data released from US Census Bureau
August 25, 2021
Redistricting Committee inaugural meeting
November
Redistricting Committee submits new council boundaries for approval by the Urban County Council.
Changes in the Districts 1972 to Present
The results of each Deciennial Census triggers a process where Council boundaries are redrawn to balance evenly redistribute the population across the 12 districts.
Click through prompts and use the slide bar below to travel back in time to see the changes to the 12 districts since the council districts were drawn in 1972.
Original Districts -- Today's Districts
Use the slider bar in this map to compare the overall changes of the 12 districts from the original districts to those today.
Districts 2002 -- Districts 2012
Use the slider bar in this map to compare the changes of the 12 districts from those in 2002 to those districts that were approved through the last redistricting effort.
