ZCTA Level Poverty Data, 5-Year Estimates

RE: ZCTA Level Poverty Data, 5-Year Estimates

Bernie — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 01:27:41 GMT

I see now, the same thing is happening for me. It's happening for both Subject Tables and Detailed Tables. It seems the issue has something to do with selecting "All ZCTAs in United States" or for a given state; if you select a specific ZCTA, then other years are visible. Maybe someone here from Census can look into it.

In the meantime, I can suggest a few other options:
1. Download the full summary files for each year (you probably don't want to do this; it would be a big project).
2. Use a third party tool, a variety of which plenty of people here will be excited to recommend. (I'm a PolicyMap partisan, but you'll need access through your university, and it doesn't have overlapping years of 5-year estimates; eg. only 2015-2019, 2010-2014, and 2005-2009... but that's because you shouldn't compare overlapping 5-year estimates, like 2012-2016 and 2015-2019. Census Reporter might also be a good option.)

RE: ZCTA Level Poverty Data, 5-Year Estimates

jlc23 — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 01:05:38 GMT

Hi-

Thanks for replying. I am choosing the 5-year estimates. Here is what it looks like prior to choosing ZCTA as the geography.

Issue is as soon as I choose ZCTA as the level of geography, all years disappear except 2019. The data is too large to display as well in the photo below, but that's not the issue I'm concerned about. Here's another screenshot:

RE: ZCTA Level Poverty Data, 5-Year Estimates

Bernie — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 15:06:30 GMT

Hi. Is it possible that when choosing a different year, you're clicking on the 1-year estimate instead of the 5-year estimate?

The 1-year estimates don't have ZCTA-level data.

If this isn't the issue, could you describe in more detail what steps you've taken to lead to not seeing the data? Are you getting an error or a blank page, or not seeing the ZCTA geography available?