Tiger/Lines or shapefiles of USA states and cities?

Question

i\'ve been asked to generate some demographic reports (crime rates, birth/deaths, etc) based on state and cities for the USA. I have all the demographic data (provided by ou

Answer 1

A bit late, but in case anyone stumbles across this like I did:

To get the city boundary layers you navigate to "Download Shapefiles" for the year you're interested in and drop down to the city boundary layer, which is called "Places". (which is not an intuitive enough name for me...)

http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles2011/main

That's the link for 2011's shapefiles.