geopandas.GeoSeries.centroid#

property GeoSeries.centroid[source]#

Returns a GeoSeries of points representing the centroid of each geometry.

Note that centroid does not have to be on or within original geometry.

See also

GeoSeries.representative_point

point guaranteed to be within each geometry

Examples

>>> from shapely.geometry import Polygon, LineString, Point
>>> s = geopandas.GeoSeries(
...     [
...         Polygon([(0, 0), (1, 1), (0, 1)]),
...         LineString([(0, 0), (1, 1), (1, 0)]),
...         Point(0, 0),
...     ]
... )
>>> s
0    POLYGON ((0 0, 1 1, 0 1, 0 0))
1        LINESTRING (0 0, 1 1, 1 0)
2                       POINT (0 0)
dtype: geometry
>>> s.centroid
0    POINT (0.33333 0.66667)
1        POINT (0.70711 0.5)
2                POINT (0 0)
dtype: geometry