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The ACS provides data in well over a thousand tables, so it can be mind-numbing when its first encountered. However, when you understand a few things about it, it becomes much less daunting.
First, it's important to understand that many of those tables are variations on a single core idea. We use the word "tabulation" to describe that core idea: a set of factors by which data counts are divided. Those factors are either questions asked on the survey or values derived from responses to those questions.
Thinking about it this way, there are only 620 tabulations in the ACS, and over one hundred of those are technical tables which you will consult only in very special cases.
Census Reporter tags these 500-some tabulations with one or more topics. In our comparison builder interface, you can use these tags to reduce the number of tables you need to look at.
We identify tabulations with the code of the central table. These codes always begin with the letter 'B' followed by five digits. (Some of the aforementioned technical tables have six digits.) Various notes indicate whether the table is also offered in a "collapsed" (with fewer columns), in "racial iterations" (tabulated by race and hispanic origin), or in a Puerto Rican version, for cases where the Puerto Rican Community Survey differs from the American Community Survey.
The rest of this page is an index to further information about what actual data is available in the various topics.
- Children
- Families
- Family Type
- Fertility
- Grandparents
- [Same-sex couples](Same Sex)
- marital status
- roommates
- costs and value
- group quarters
- mortgage
- occupancy
- physical characteristics
- tenure
- ancestry
- citizenship
- disability
- education
- language
- Migration
- place of birth
- veterans
- A glossary?
- Reference materials: Summary-level list, gazetteer, tallies, code lists, survey changes