Dataset · Demographics
ACS 5-Year
Available acs
American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the Census API: population, five-year population growth, median household income, median home value, educational attainment, household poverty and severe rent burden.
- Publisher
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Category
- Demographics
- Period
- 2024 5-year estimates (growth from 2019 to 2024)
- Refresh cadence
- Annual (release expected in December)
- Measures
- 11
- Licence
- Public domain (U.S. federal government work)
Source
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Publisher | U.S. Census Bureau |
| Product | American Community Survey 5-year estimates |
| Source | https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs (opens in a new tab) |
| Category | Demographics |
| Period | 2024 5-year estimates (growth from 2019 to 2024) |
| Refresh cadence | Annual (release expected in December) |
| Geographies | State, county, place, metro and micro area, and combined statistical area, each queried at its own grain. Metro values are the Census Bureau's own metro estimates, except five-year population growth, which is pooled from the member counties because metro definitions change between surveys. |
| Availability | Available |
| Cadastre key | acs |
Licence and attribution
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Licence | Public domain (U.S. federal government work) |
| Terms | https://www.census.gov/data/developers/about/terms-of-service.html (opens in a new tab) |
| Register status | Production approved; licence open |
| Allowed uses | evaluation, internal, public_display, derived_analytics, redistribution, bulk_export, public_geometry, api |
This source requires no credit line beyond naming the publisher. Cite it as U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates.
Measures
The key is the measure's identifier in Cadastre. A measure stored for the metro itself is read as stored; Rule from counties is how a metro is assembled from its counties where it is not (see Methodology).
| Key | Label | Unit | Rule from counties |
|---|---|---|---|
population_growth_5yr | Five-year population growth | percent over 5 years | growth of member counties combined |
population | Population | people | sum over member counties |
median_household_income | Median household income | dollars | Not assembled from counties: a metro has a value only where one is stored for the metro itself |
median_home_value | Median home value | dollars | Not assembled from counties: a metro has a value only where one is stored for the metro itself |
education_high_school_rate | Adults whose highest education is high school | percent of adults 25+ | population-weighted county mean |
education_some_college_rate | Adults whose highest education is some college | percent of adults 25+ | population-weighted county mean |
education_associate_rate | Adults whose highest education is an associate degree | percent of adults 25+ | population-weighted county mean |
education_bachelor_rate | Adults whose highest education is a bachelor's degree | percent of adults 25+ | population-weighted county mean |
education_graduate_rate | Adults whose highest education is a graduate degree | percent of adults 25+ | population-weighted county mean |
household_poverty_rate | Household poverty rate | percent of households | population-weighted county mean |
severe_rent_burden_rate | Severe rent burden rate | percent of renter households | population-weighted county mean |
Known gaps and caveats
- Medians are never averaged across counties: a population-weighted mean of medians is not a median of anything, so a median is shown only where the Census Bureau publishes it.
- Educational attainment shares are by highest level reached, so they do not overlap.
- Connecticut replaced its eight counties with nine planning regions, which Census geography now uses; for growth, the prior population of each planning region is rebuilt from its towns.