Census Data : Which Data Tool Should I Use?

Census Data : Which Data Tool Should I Use?

These are great tools from American Community Survey (ACS) to help you access current social, economic, housing, and demographic statistics for the nation's communities:

• Business Owner: Census Business Builder  &  County Business Patterns  & BusinessUSA
• Market Analyst: American FactFinder 
• Urban & Regional Planner: Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files via FTP ,  Building Permits Data
• Transportation Planner: Census Transportation Planning Products (CTPP) & American FactFinder 
• Economic Studies:Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD)
• Emergency Planner: OnTheMap for Emergency Management
• Manager: QuickFacts
• Health Administrator: DataFerrett
• Student: Easy Stats
• Data Visualization: Census Explorer
• GIS & TIGER geodata: Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER)
• Developers & APIs: Discovery Tool