Accessing the Data Tables

2010 Census products are available via these types of web interfaces.

Spatial Data and Maps

Census Bureau's Census 2010 Data page includes links to interactive maps.

• Census 2010 TIGER/Line Shape Files (boundaries for mapping)
  • This site is updated as new boundaries are released.
  • Tracts, blocks, and ZCTAs are all new; redefined for 2010.
  • 2010 Census Gazetteer Files
    FIPS Codes and names for counties, places, and county subdivisions (towns)
  • Geographic Correspondence Engine with Census 2010 Geography
    Creates cross-walks from among various geographies used for 2010 Census data.

Data Products

Census Bureau's Census 2010 Data page lists all files and has links to interactive maps.

• Summary File 1
  • Data Content
    • age, sex, households, families, relationship to householder, characteristics of owners and renters, detailed race (definitions here) and Hispanic or Latino origin groups, and group quarters.
    • cross tabulations among various characteristics by basic race and by Hispanic Origin
  • Geographic Coverage
    
    • counties, tracts, block-groups, blocks,
      
    • places, metropolitan areas, congressional districts (111th), state legislative areas,
    • American Indian, Hawaiian Native, and Alaskan areas,
    • regions, divisions
    • Zip Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs),
    • school districts
  • 2010 Summary File 1 Documentation
• Demographic Profiles
  • Data Content - one table listing all characteristics with few cross tabulations; see AFF2 table layout.
  • Geographic Coverage
    • U.S. Region, Division, States
    • Counties, Places, County Subdivisions, Congressional Districts, State Legislative Districts, ZIP code tabulation areas, school districts and census tracts
    • Within States: Metropolitan Areas, American Indian and Alaskan Areas
  • 2010 Demographic Profile Summary File Documentation
• Summary File 2 (being released on a state by state basis Dec. 2011 through April 2012)
  
  • Data Content
    • Detailed demographic information in these tables for up to 331 population sub-groups down to the census tract level.
    • The population sub-groups are based on race (basic race, detailed race and all combinations of basic race), Hispanic or Latino origin (including detailed Hispanic origins), and tribal population groups. Click here for definitions of these groups.  
      
    • Presentation of SF 2 tables for a population-groups is subject to a threshold of 100 or more people.
       
      
  • Geographic Coverage
    • Current release is for state and geographies within states down to tracts. Includes ZCTAs.
• Redistricting Data (P.L. 94-171)
  • Data Content
    • counts of all persons and of the voting age population are reported
      - in total
      - by basic race categories and all race combinations (definitions here)
      - by Hispanic Origin and Hispanic Origin by Race
    • Counts of vacant and occupied housing units
  • Geographic Coverage
    • blocks, tracts, counties, communities, states, and Congressional Districts
• 2010 Census Products At a Glance

• Social Explorer (selected tables, easiest to use)
  Maps and data tables that can be downloaded. From their main page choose Data & Reports.
• New York City Planning
  Tables specific to New York City including neighborhood-level data at the new, NYCPL defined, "Neighborhood Tabulations Areas."
• Cornell Program on Applied Demographics 2010 Census Data
  Tables, maps based on data for geographies within New York State.
• Investigative Reporters and Editors Census 2010 Interface
  Easy to user interface for downloading frequently used characteristics by selected geographies
  including tracts.
• New York State Data Center
  NYS lead agency in the Census Bureau's Data Center Affiliate program provides data on New York States cities, towns, villages, places, and counties.
• Missouri Census Data Center
  Missouri's lead agency in the Census Bureau's Data Center program publishes nation-wide data for selected geographies. The site has both files for FTP and an interface for individual data tables.
• Center for Urban Research
  A list of links to data, maps, analysis, and more about the 2010 Census.