The new 2020 population numbers are out and I am seeing different numbers/percentages from news articles than what I have from https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/datasets/2010-2020/metro/totals/ . To be on the safe side do I compare CENSUS2010POP to POPESTIMATE042020 or POPESTIMATE2020 to get the correct percentage growth?
Thanks in advance.
Robin
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MCDC also has the data, although not necessarily "user-friendly".
mcdc.missouri.edu/.../uexplore
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I think those are estimates and the new numbers are in the PL94 release https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/about/rdo/summary-files.html
which can be compared to pl94 data from 2010 — i downloaded from NHGIS https://www.nhgis.org
I think I might attempt downloading the files in MS Access or wait (per Tim) on the user-friendly files in September which is just around the corner.
Thanks everyone!
You can also get easily downloadable files for all counties in the US, all places, all tracts, and all county subdivisions from Big Local News: https://biglocalnews.org/#/open_projects They have data for 2020 and 2010.
Thank you Rebecca!