Research Guides: Statistics and Data by Topic: Census

Boston & Massachusetts Census

American Community Survey
The American Community Survey (ACS) is an ongoing survey that provides data every year.
Data.Census.Gov
Data.census.gov is the new platform to access demographic and economic data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
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The vision for data.census.gov is to improve the customer experience by making data available from one centralized place so that data users spend less time searching for data and content, and more time using it.
Census FAQs
Census of Population and Housing 1790 to 2010
National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS)
The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) provides population, housing, agricultural, and economic data, along with GIS-compatible boundary files, for geographic units in the United States from 1790 to the present.

U.S. Census Bureau This link opens in a new window
The Census Bureau homepage serves as the gateway to the vast array of Census data. The Census Bureau is best known for the decennial population and housing census, but it also collects population and housing data between censuses through a variety of surveys. It conducts economic censuses every five years which include both economic and business data. It collects economic and business data between censuses as well.