American Community Survey (ACS)
Products
Tabular Products
The Census Bureau will be producing 1 and 5 year tabular data from ACS. To find out the frequency of tabulation for each geography, please visit the Data Releases page.
Current Products
- Base Tables - simple descriptive tabulations of basic concepts and variables.
- Tabular Profiles - Key summary measures, derived measures (e.g., medians), and collapsed distributions of variables selected from the Base Tables.
- Narrative Profiles - Short prose narratives with simple graphs based on some of the summary information in the Tabular Profiles
- Geographic Ranking Tables - Tables and related graphs that show the rank order of geographic areas on key statistics or derived measures.
Popular Websites to Retrieve Data
ACS Public Use Microdata
- ACS Public Uuse Microdata Sample (PUMS)
- A sample set of confidentiality-protected individual or household responses to questionnaire that enables users to customize variables, table and analyses. The 1-year and 5-year PUMS have about 1% and 5% of all U.S. households, respectively.
- Available at Region, division, state and Public Use Microdata Area (PUMA) only.