Data.census.gov Newsletter – October 2024
What's New?
Throughout the past month, we’ve made a few updates to data.census.gov based on user feedback that we hope will enhance your experience.
- We’ve improved the display of American Community Survey (ACS) tables by defaulting to more appropriate data for coverage. Now when selecting collections of smaller geographies like “All counties in Indiana,” the site will default to data from the ACS 5-year estimates to ensure more geographies have data while allowing larger geographies like “All states in the US” to continue to return timelier ACS 1-Year data.
- The Industry and Occupation sections in the geography profiles now focus on the most relevant results for your selected geography. The profiles feature the top 10 industries and occupations shown in a descending bar chart, allowing you to see the most popular industries and occupations for a geography.
- We’ve made some edits to population pyramids to prevent overlap with age labels. You’ll also notice new icons that explain special characters, and we’ve removed charts where all values are zero, ensuring a cleaner and more efficient display.
This past month, the U.S. Census Bureau also released the Supplemental Demographic and Housing Characteristics File (S-DHC). The S-DHC is the final 2020 Census data product to be released and includes data combining the characteristics of households and the people living in them. The data are available for the nation, the 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. These tables supplement the data on households and people released in the Demographic and Housing Characteristics File (DHC) in May 2023.
To support this release, we’ve created six video tutorials to help you find the S-DHC data with guidance on how to access the tables as well as tips and tricks to navigate data.census.gov and the Census Data API. Please reference our Press Kit for more information.
Featured Question
How do I get started with my search?
You have two options to start your search on the landing page of data.census.gov: a free-form single search bar or an advanced search filtering experience. Many results can be found through either experience, but some complex searches are only available through the advanced search. To help you get started, we’ve included some guidance on when to use single search vs. advanced search.
Single Search: Recommended to get a quick statistic or to search a single code or table ID
You can combine multiple types of keywords in the same search. For example:
- Topic + Geography: “Poverty in Arizona”
- NAICS + Year + Geography: “531, 2012, All counties in Arizona”
Advanced Search: Recommended for complex searches or to explore available options
Most detailed population groups and geographies with complex names are available only through the advanced search.
Email us at [email protected] for any questions or comments you may have. For more guidance on data availability and using data.census.gov, the Census API, and Microdata Access, visit our Resources page.
September Releases
September 4, 2024
Incremental Developmental Code Release
September 12, 2024
2023 American Community Survey 1-Year Comparison Profile
2023 American Community Survey 1-Year Data Profile
2023 American Community Survey 1-Year Detailed Tables
2023 American Community Survey 1-Year Selected Population Profile
2023 American Community Survey 1-Year Subject Tables
CPS Annual Social and Economic (March) Supplement
August 2024 Current Population Survey Basic Monthly
September 19, 2024
2020 Supplemental Demographic and Housing Characteristics File
September 24, 2024
December 2023 Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement
September 26, 2024
Incremental Developmental Code Release
2022 Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) Time Series
2022 American Community Survey 5-Year Migration Flows
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