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The Census Bureau released estimates for demographic breakdowns for each county — in 2060. With these estimates as the baseline, Niraj Chokshi and Quoctrung Bui for The Upshot compared it…

In 2014, five people died in New Orleans in a house fire. Three of them were children. There was no working smoke alarm. So the city analytics team and New…

We usually see Census data in aggregate. It comes in choropleth maps or as statistics about various subpopulations and geographies. Is there value in seeing the numbers as individuals? What…

Justin Wolfers, David Leonhardt, and Kevin Quealy for the Upshot explore the gender gap between the black male and female populations in the United States. It’s wide.…

DataShine Census provides a detailed view into United Kingdom 2011 census data. Population, housing, income, commute, and other variables are available. The DataShine mapping platform is an output from an…

According to the U.S. census, the mean center of the population shifted west every decade since 1790. They show the change in a simple animation. The mean center of population,…

We’ve seen the map of where everyone lives. Now here’s the reverse of that by Nik Freeman: where nobody lives in the United States. A Block is the smallest area…

The American Community Survey, an ongoing survey that the Census administers to millions per year, provides detailed information about how Americans live now and decades ago. There are tons of…

Census data can be interesting and super informative, but getting the data out of the dreaded American FactFinder is often a pain, especially if you don’t know the exact table…

There is a possibility the UK Census is scrapped for cheaper options next year. The census faces its biggest shake-up in its 200-year history under Office for National Statistics proposals.…

Dustin Cable, a demographer at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, added another dimension to Brandon Martin-Anderson population map. The racial dot map by Cable draws…

Upon discovering hundreds of thousands open embedded devices on the Internet, an anonymous researcher conducted a Census of the Internet, mapping 460 million IP addresses around the world. While playing…

The United States Census Bureau just released county-level commute estimates for 2011, based on the American Community Survey (that thing so many people seem to be against). About 8.1 percent…

In the 2010 United States Census, 308,745,538 were counted, and Brandon Martin-Anderson from the MIT Media Lab mapped almost all of them (308,450,225 points to be exact). I like the…

Last week, Australia released data for their 2011 Census. Small Multiples, in collaboration with Special Broadcasting Service, put the data to use and built an interactive that compares demographics based…

Many want to get rid of the American Community Survey, a Census program which releases region-specific data annually. University of Michigan professor William Frey explains why cutting the survey would…

Last month Republicans were pushing a bill to get rid of the American Community Survey, an 11-page questionnaire about housing, education, and other things. Yesterday, a bill passed to cut…

Other than ten-year population estimates, the United States Census Bureau annually collects information about how people live in the country through the American Community Survey. It’s an eleven-page survey [pdf]…

The 72-year mark has arrived, and the United States Census released individual records from 1940 yesterday. So you can now, for example, see that J.D. Salinger lived at 1133 Park…

Census data can provide valuable information, but the datasets are not always the easiest to access. So you often end up spending a lot of time getting your data in…

Census is any country is important in making major policy decisions and can affect your day-to-day, but it’s not always obvious how. Leading up to the August 9 Australia Census,…

The United States Census Bureau just released results from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) on marriage and divorce, and my wife and I just celebrated an anniversary…

You’ve seen population changes at the state and county level, but with Census data, you can zoom in all the way to the block level. Stephen Von Worley breaks it…

There are rumblings, mostly among librarians, over the end of the Statistical Compendia branch of the Census Bureau, in 2012. The branch has produced the Statistical Abstract of the United…

This map, a collaboration between Good and Gregory Hubacek, shows three metrics from the most recent American Community Survey by the US Census: high school graduates, college graduates, and median…

This Tract, by Michal Migurski of Stamen, with some help from Craig Mod, lets you view details of your block by way of Census data. It’s still using 2000 data…

Government data technology has felt behind the times the past few years with outdated Java applets and such, which makes it tedious to look at all the data that is…