Selected Census Web Sites

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Last reviewed: December 23, 2008

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, and the American Community Survey.
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.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
The Data Center provides 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

Census of Population and Housing
This site includes scanned population statistics from the federal census from 1790-2000. In addition to the basic population censuses, there are links to special census bulletins covering topics such as census tracts, manufactures, mortality, religious bodies, and telephones.
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/decennial/index.htm

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

Statistical Abstracts
Statistical Abstract data ranges from the Census Bureau's most recent edition to the historical abstracts compiled throughout the decades. Some of the data were scanned as an effort to make historical abstract information available to the public.
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/statab.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 scanned decennial censuses.
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/