From the website:
Investigative Reporters and Editors is pleased to announce the next phase in our ongoing Census project, designed to provide journalists with a simpler way to access 2010 Census data so they can spend less time importing and managing the data and more time exploring and reporting the data. The project is the result of work by journalists from the The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, USA Today, CNN, the Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Wash.) and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, funded through generous support from the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism.
You can download bulk data as well as census data in JSON format.
You can browse data by:
Census tracts
Can vary in size but averages 4,000 people. Designed to remain relatively stable across decades to allow statistical comparisons. Boundaries defined by local officials using Census Bureau rules.
Places
1. What most people call cities or towns. A locality incorporated under state law that acts as a local government.
2. An unincorporated area that is well-known locally. Defined by state officals under Census Bureau rules and called a “census designated place.” “CDP” is added to the end of name.
Counties (parishes in LA)
The primary subdivisions of states. To cover the full country, this includes Virginia’s cities and Baltimore, St. Louis and Carson City, Nev., which sit outside counties; the District of Columbia; and the boroughs, census areas and related areas in Alaska.
County Subdivisions
There are 2 basic kinds: 1. In 29 states, they have at least some governmental powers and are called minor civil divisions (MCDs). Their names may include variations on “township,” “borough,” “district,” “precinct,” etc. In 12 of those 29 states, they operate as full-purpose local governments: CT, MA, ME, MI, MN, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VT, WI. 2. In states where there are no MCDs, county subdivisions are primarily statistical entities known as census county divisions. Their names end in “CCD.”[State and USA.]
Great source of census information for use with other data, even proprietary data in your topic map.
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