census-designated place

English

Noun

census-designated place (plural census-designated places)

1. (US, demography) A place containing a concentration of population, defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only; it is not a municipality, but either a subset of one or spanning into several.

   Synonym: (initialism) CDP

   Coordinate terms: incorporated place, municipality, unorganized territory

Further reading

• census-designated place on Wikipedia.Wikipedia