2019-2023 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates - Census to Host Webinar

About the ACS

The webinar explained how to access ACS data and online resources and provide tips for comparing geographies and statistics over time. The ACS provides a wide range of statistics about the nation’s people and housing, such as language spoken at home, education, commuting, employment, mortgage status and rent, income, poverty, educational attainment, occupation, nativity, ancestry, and health insurance coverage. It is the only source of local estimates for most of the 40-plus topics it covers.

The statistics cover a variety of geographic areas that includes all states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, congressional and state legislative districts, metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas, counties, places, and other geographies down to census tracts and block groups. The webinar showed participants how to access new data and online resources from the 2019-2023 release. Attendees will also learn about changes related to this release, and tips for comparing geographies and statistics over time. You will learn about basics of the 5-year estimates and datasets produced from the ACS and resources available, and learn how to access ACS data products through a variety of tools. View the webinar recording here.

Highlights on the ACS

The ACS 5-year estimates are the most relied-on source for up-to-date social, economic, and housing information every year.  These statistics cover all geographic areas regardless of size, down to the block-group level. The ACS is the only source of small area estimates for social, economic and demographic characteristics.  Users can now identify trends for socio-economic characteristics for even the smallest communities on a more frequent basis.

Please see the ACS video, and discover the richness of ACS data in this Back to Data Basics webinar series event.

The ACS five-year statistics allow users to compare two non-overlapping five-year data sets, such as from 2005 to 2009 and from 2010 to 2014. See also When to Use 1-Year or 5-Year Estimates. A recording of the 2020 Introduction to Census Bureau Data presentation is also available. 

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