California Housing Dataset — california

Median house values and demographic/geographic predictors for 20,433 California block groups, derived from the 1990 US Census. Classic regression benchmark. Originally released by Pace & Barry (1997); this version drops the categorical `ocean_proximity` column (to keep the bundled schema all-numeric, matching the rest of the package's datasets) and removes rows with missing `total_bedrooms`. The regression target, `median_house_value`, is the last column.

Usage

data(california_housing)

Format

A data frame with 20,433 rows and 9 variables.

Source

Pace, R.K. and Barry, R. (1997) Sparse spatial autoregressions. Statistics & Probability Letters, 33, 291-297.

Details

longitude: Longitude of the block group (degrees, negative = west).
latitude: Latitude of the block group (degrees).
housing_median_age: Median age of houses in the block group (years).
total_rooms: Total number of rooms.
total_bedrooms: Total number of bedrooms.
population: Block group population.
households: Number of households.
median_income: Median household income (tens of thousands of USD).
median_house_value: Regression target: median house value (USD).