• RE: ACS vs Census populations at the ZCTA level

    You must keep in mind that the data is collected continuously. About 1/5 of the sample was collected in 2008, 1/5 in 2009 and so on. The Bureau stresses that it is not an average. It has a 5 year sampling frame. The sample size over the 5 years is still…
  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases Documentation Supporting the 2012-2016 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates

    We are pleased to announce the first release of documentation in support of the 2012-2016 American Community Survey 5-year estimates scheduled for release on Thursday, December 7, 2017. This documentation offers ACS data users the opportunity to prepare…

  • RE: Median income by race?

    [For anyone who received an email with a previous response from me, please see this one instead. I hit "reply" prematurely before.]

    Median incomes can be found in the set of tables starting with B19013. If you want mutually exclusive categories, then…

  • Today: Documentation and Webinar Supporting the 2019 American Community Survey 1-Year Data Release

    We are pleased to announce the first release of documentation in support of the 2019 American Community Survey 1-year estimates scheduled for release on Thursday, September 17, 2020. This documentation offers ACS data users the opportunity to prepare…

  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases Documentation Supporting the 2017 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-Year Estimates

    We are pleased to announce the first release of documentation in support of the 2017 American Community Survey 1-year estimates scheduled for release on Thursday, September 13, 2018. This documentation offers ACS data users the opportunity to prepare…

  • RE: Big change coming for Connecticut census data, including ACS

    Following up, the Bureau's listing of Substantial Changes to Counties & County Equivalents now includes crosswalks between the old and new Connecticut counties at the county subdivision level.

    The good news for those looking to measure county-level…

  • Early release materials for 2015 ACS 1-year estimates now AVAILABLE

    We are pleased to announce the first release of documentation in support of the 2015 ACS 1-year estimates scheduled for release on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016. This documentation offers ACS data users the opportunity to prepare for next week's data release…

  • RE: Getting a list of zip codes in federally recognized Native American/American Indian reservations

    The best I've found for this kind of thing is the LEHD LODES crosswalk file. It lists every block in the US (and Puerto Rico, I think), and for each block, for several geography types (summary levels), indicates the ID of the geography containing that…
  • RE: Comparisons Within the Same Time Period

    I assume that you might want a ratio of the "sub" area and the larger area.  For example a county might be the "large "area and the "subset" a single tract.  You might want the ratio of the 2 populations (B01003)

    In general…

  • U.S. Census Bureau Releases Documentation Supporting the 2018 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-Year Estimates

    We are pleased to announce the first release of documentation in support of the 2018 American Community Survey 1-year estimates scheduled for release on Thursday, September 26, 2019. This documentation offers ACS data users the opportunity to prepare…