Hello: I work for a news organization that wants to write about some of the 5-year ACS demographics, especially poverty and income, for local towns in our area. There are 340 municipalities that we cover. If we look at the main estimates for 2013-17, and compare the numbers with a non-overlapping time period such as 2006-10, we see some striking changes in income and poverty, but the margins of error give us pause. We believe our readers would be interested in changes in income and poverty in their towns, and we can say that the top-line numbers are estimates, and are subject to margins of error. But let’s take a town in our region, Bellmawr, N.J., which has about 11,500 people. Poverty rose from 10 percent in 2006-10 to 20 percent in 2013-17, or an increase of 10 percentage points. With the error margins, however, that change could be as small as +2 percentage points to +19 on the high end. So would you stay away from these numbers, publish them with the margins of error, aggregate towns into large sub-county geographies, or do something else? Of course, we would be doing on-the-ground reporting as well. Thanks, John