Today: Webinar and Documentation Supporting the 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-Year Data Release

2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-Year Pre-Release Webinar

Learn more about the latest American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year data release. This webinar will cover background information about the ACS, changes for this release, and where to find new data release information on the ACS website. We will also demonstrate how to access tables on data.census.gov.

Date & Time: Thursday, December 1st from 2:00-3:00 PM EST

Presenters: Charles Gamble, American Community Survey Office

Documentation Supporting the 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates Now Available

We are pleased to announce the first release of documentation in support of the 2017-2021 ACS 5-year estimates scheduled for release on Thursday, December 8, 2022. This documentation offers ACS data users the opportunity to prepare for next week's data release.

New and updated information related to this release is available now on the 2021 Data Release page.

Highlights include links to the following:

• The Table & Geography Changes page provides details about new, modified, and removed tables.

• The 2017-2021 ACS 5-year Summary File will be released as a table-based format, replacing the prior sequence-based format. Each ACS Detailed Table will be available as a separate file containing the estimate and margin of error for all published geographies. To aid in this transition, the prior sequence-based format will also be available for the 2017-2021 ACS 5-year releases but will be discontinued thereafter. For more information, visit the ACS Summary File page.

The 2017-2021 ACS 5-year estimates will be released in the U.S. Census Bureau's data dissemination platform, data.census.gov. The platform serves as the primary way for accessing data and digital content from the Census Bureau.