U.S. Census of Population and Housing Basics : Social Explorer

Go to Social Explorer (click "Explore Maps" or "Tables" in the upper right portion of the page to start using the database)
 

General information

• Three simultaneous users from UW-Madison licensed.
• Provides access to demographic and housing data from the American Community Survey, and the Decennial Census back to 1790
• Allows users to create maps and reports at all geographic levels, including the state, county, census tract, block group, zip code and census place
• Default interface creates and uses maps
• Also includes data from 2009 and 2010 on religious congregations.  The data were collected by Info-Group American Church Lists, organized into religious groups by the Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) (data collected by private organizations, NOT the U.S. government) and processed by Social Explorer.

Help

• Available at Social Explorer's Help

Citing

• Examples of citing in Chicago, MLA, and APA styles at  How do I cite Information on Social Explorer? (in the FAQ section of Social Explorer Help)