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The Bureau's portal to the most current data from various surveys, including the American Community Survey (2010-current), the Decennial Census (2000, 2010), the Economic Census (2012; 2017).

United States profile. Find state, county, or city profile by searching at the top. Data are from the American Community Survey.

Select state, county, city, town or zip code. Data are from multiple Census Bureau surveys, including the American Community Survey.

Access to individual-level data samples from the American Community Survey and Current Population Survey. Create custom tables that are not available through pretabulated (or summary) ACS data products using https://data.census.gov/mdat/#/.

Access to summary statistics and GIS files for U.S. censuses and other nationwide surveys from 1790 through the present

Access to microdata from federal censuses (1850-1880, 1900-present), from the American Community Surveys (2000-present), and from the Puerto Rican Community Surveys (2005-present)

For advanced data users.

Current data from the American Community Survey and County Business Patterns

Over 2500 tables described.

Identify what areas of the country had high or low return rates in the 2010 census, and the current demographic makeup of these neighborhoods. Please note, you CAN view data down to the census tract level. Start by selecting a state and selecting an option with the pop-up window. The data surrounding the map will eventually change to reflect the selected geography. (This bug reported to the Bureau in Dec. 2018)

Tool for determining which survey to use.

Can identify tracts associated with a neighborhood. Includes data.

Chapter 10 of the Geographic Reference Manual details the history and use of tracts and BNAs.

Type in an address and get a tract number.

Digital geospatial/map data used by the Census. 2006 and earlier available in ASCII.

Which TIGER product should I use?

View legal and Census boundaries along with features and landmarks, without downloading or needing GIS software for the 50 states, D.C., P.R., and island areas back to the 2010 Decennial Census and the 2019 ACS. Can identify ZCTAs and tracts for a neighborhood. No data at this site.

Community Fact Sheets with socioeconomic data and location maps for each county, city, town and village.

Census Bureau video -- 7 minutes

Concise and helpful overview, issued in 2008

Up-to-date overview

1790-1940 records by subscription or NARA computers

Originally published in 1979 as a catalog of microfilm available for purchase from the Archives, this lists available schedules by state and county.

The New York State Library makes census information freely available through Ancestry.com: New York .

Describes the differences between the Decennial Census and the American Community Survey