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Due to the lapse in government funding, census.gov and all online survey collection requests will be unavailable until further notice.


Updates regarding government operating status and resumption of normal operations can be found at http://www.usa.gov.

Websites affected by this shutdown are all census.gov hosted websites, are listed at

http://outage.census.gov/closed.html

The API now offers 2012 ACS 1 Year data profiles for the nation, all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, every congressional district, every metropolitan area, and all counties and places with populations of 65,000 or more.

Hi,

This is my first time working with this site and the Census data.

On the developer home page it says:

"Data are accessible to software developers through a stateless HTTP GET request. Up to 50 variables can be requested with a single API call. In order to access data, you will need to insert a key into the request URL in order for query results to be returned. If you do not have a key assigned to you, you... more »

New geography resources posted to the Geography section of the website at www.census.gov/developers/

How was the key registration process experience?

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Newbie here. I searched the api documentation and still do not fully understand how to use it.

I would like to find the average house value for a given zip code from the 2010 census data. Possible?

If so, please provide an example URL for 09210.

Can the same call be made for multiple zip codes that make up an area?

Thanks!

You inadvertently removed an important page: http://www.census.gov/developers/data/?eml=gd&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery.

This page had links to documentation, variables and examples for the ACS5 API.

It took us a while to find this page. Please put it back up.

Hello everyone,

This is a question requiring some general direction and also some technical help:

I would like to automatically (daily, weekly?) upload ACS reports by county (all 3200+) into a database hosted locally. My boss wants it in MS Access (this is not up for debate, I have tried).

From MS Access, we'd like to be able to extract the fields we need to populate a .xls file or any other format. Eventually, even... more »

Hi All,

I am trying to call the API for the the geocoder census geographical locations for few addresses I have in my database. I want the longitude/latitude values for each address.I want to call the API through a javascript in an ETL tool. Can anyone suggest method or any useful link for that? It would be a great help.

Thanks!!

Hi,

I've been working with the following query:

http://api.census.gov/data/2012/popproj/pop?get=TOTAL_POP,POP_4,POP_3,POP_2,POP_1,POP_0&ORIGIN=0&RACE=0&SEX=0&YEAR=2012&key=

I think it is returning total usa population of age 5 and under for the year 2012. Is there a way to get the same information for each state?

In other words is per state information available from popproj/pop? Or do I need to query another data... more »

I am looking for a solid WebService API method that will allow me to submit an http request with a pre-validated US Street/City/State/Zip address and return COUNTY in xml or json about 200 times per work day.It looks like the US Census API may do it? Is the data current enough? What might a request look like? Many thanks in advance.

I would like to access specific population data for Black African America population data by state, county and city. Is this possible today? If so how do I access the data to use for an App? If not, can this feature be created?

API calls are only returning some of the counties in a state. For example, this call will only return 53 of the 254 counties in Texas.

http://api.census.gov/data/2012/acs1?get=B19101_001E&for=county:*&key=

I'm working on a school project with 2010 Census data.

Currently, we are getting tract-level data using codes from http://api.census.gov/data/2010/sf1/variables.json to get data.

For example, to find the white 65-year old males in a county's tracts, we make the API call:
http://api.census.gov/data/2010/sf1?key=[key]&get=PCT012I068,NAME&for=tract:*&in=state:08+county:059

However, when making the same call at a block... more »