Census-designated place

A census-designated place (CDP) is an unincorporated concentration of population with a definite residential nucleus, such as Whitmore Lake, Michigan. In other words, it is a place that is counted as a city or municipality while counting people in the census, because it resembles them in population density and structure, but which has not any town rights or a city council.

Reference

• U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division, "Cartographic Boundary Files", Census-designated place. Cartographic Operations Branch, July 18, 2001.