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Last reviewed: December 11, 2003

General Information

American Fact Finder
This service makes available browse, search, and map data from many Census Bureau sources: the 1990 Census, the 1997 Economic Census, the American Community Survey and the Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal. In early 2001, the data from Census 2000 will be available in American FactFinder.
http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html

Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Facts (BEARFACTS)
BEARFACTS consists of computer-generated narratives for states, counties, and metropolitan statistical areas. The narratives describe an area's personal income using current estimates, growth rates, and a breakdown of the sources of personal income.
http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/regional/bearfacts

CenStats
The annual survey of manufactures, building permits, census tract street locator, consolidated federal funds report, county business patterns, international trade data, occupation by race and sex, USA counties, and zip code business patterns data are available here. Geography and dates of coverage vary.
http://censtats.census.gov/

New York State Census Affiliate Data Center Contact List By County
This list is provided by the New York State Data Center and links to many of the affiliates throughout the state.
http://www.nylovesbiz.com/nysdc/affiliatecoordcontacts/bakaffcont.asp

New York State Census Information State Data Center
Downloadable and viewable files for population, migration and the current population survey, as well as economic and migration information for New York. Links are provided to pdf versions of the Census Bureau's publications which relate to New York.
http://www.nylovesbiz.com/nysdc/default.asp

Selected Historical Census Data: Population and Housing Counts
This includes population of states and counties 1790-1990, population in coastal counties 1960-1980, population and housing counts 1790-1990, population of the 100 largest cities 1790-1990, and historical census statistics on the foreign born population 1850-1990.
http://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/hiscendata.html

U.S. Census Bureau
Contains a wide variety of economic, population, agricultural, housing and other data. Many files are available in Adobe Acrobat format, including back issues of the Census Bureau's monthly newsletter, Census and You.
http://www.census.gov

United States Historical Census Data Browser
The data presented here describe the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1790 to 1970. Graphs and charts can be produced for both state and county level data.
http://fisher.lib.Virginia.EDU/census/

Regional Planning Boards

These boards provide a wide variety of area specific data.

Capital District Regional Planning Commission
http://www.cdrpc.org

Central New York Regional Planning and Development Board
http://www.cnyrpdb.org

City University of New York Graduate Center
http://web.gsuc.cuny.edu/cur

Dutchess County Department of Planning
http://www.dutchessny.gov

Erie County Department of Environment and Planning
http://www.erie.gov

Genesee/Finger Lakes Regional Planning Council
http://www.gflrpc.org

Lake Champlain/Lake George Regional Planning Board
http://www.albany.net/~rpb

New York City Department of City Planning
http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/dcp/home.html

Niagara County Department of Planning Development
http://www.niagara-usa.com

St. Lawrence County Planning
http://www.co.st-lawrence.ny.us

Southern Tier Central Regional Planning and Development Board
http://www.stcrpdb.dst.ny.us

Southern Tier West Regional Planning Board
http://www.southerntierwest.org

Ulster County Department of Planning
http://www.co.ulster.ny.us/planning/