IPUMS NHGIS has added the 2016-2020 ACS 5-Year Summary File to our site. NHGIS allows users to select any combo of the 1,100+ tables to download in nationwide files for any of 87 summary levels, down to block groups.
To support comparisons between the …
Most of the detailed ACS tables are not available for block groups. The summary file Appendix A, which you can find through the Appendices links on the sequence-based summary file pages (here's 2019's page), indicates which tables have "No Blockgroups…
Woah-- that's awesome Bernie, exactly what I was looking for. Many thanks!
I agree, at this point I don't need the micro data and for now I will just pull the zip-code level data from the API. I hadn't heard of the summary files but I will look into…
If you get a 2020 census data table through IPUMS NHGIS, it comes with much of the geoheader file content attached, including land area. I.e., you could get 2020 total populations and land areas for 2020 places in a single data file in a single request…
When and where I can download 5-year summary estimates for 2018?
5-year summary files are available until 2017 at the following link, but not 2018.
https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/
Thanks
Srini