Census Bureau Releases Most Up-to-Date Statistics for Every Community Nationwide
The U.S. Census Bureau today released findings from the American
Community Survey — the most relied-on source for detailed, up-to-date
socio-economic statistics covering every community in the nation every year —
for the combined years from 2006 to 2010.
Consisting of about 11 billion individual estimates and covering more
than 670,000 distinct geographies, the five-year estimates give even the
smallest communities timely information on more than 40 topics, such as
educational attainment, income, occupation, commuting to work, language spoken
at home, nativity, ancestry and selected monthly homeowner
costs.
“These estimates are ideal for public officials to use to make key
decisions,” Census Bureau Director Robert Groves said. “School boards will find
them helpful in forecasting demand for classroom space, teachers and workforce
training programs, and they will be a tremendous asset to planners in
identifying traffic concerns and building roads and transit systems to ease
commutes. Local governments will also find them useful in forecasting needs for
services such as police and fire protection.”
Today's release is based on completed interviews with almost 2 million
housing units each year from 2006 through 2010. By pooling several years of
survey responses, the American Community Survey can generate detailed
statistical portraits of smaller geographies. The Census Bureau issues new sets
of these five-year estimates every year, permitting users to track trends in
even the smallest of areas over time.
Visitors to the Census Bureau website can find their community's
estimates in the American FactFinder database. Release
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