Mining Census Data for Reporting

Handbook from census.gov. Note especially Chapter 5: How reporters use ACS for their stories.

Virtual hub for learning data skills

Uses an example from Boston to show how to create a neighborhood from census tracts. For New York City, some neighborhood data can be accessed at the PUMA (Public Use Microdata Area) level. For example, there is a PUMA called Brooklyn Community District 16 - Brownsville and Ocean Hill, but if you wanted a more narrow or specific neighborhood, you could use this method to build it from census tracts. For New York City the NYC Population Factfinder does something similar.

An advanced way to access data cross-tabulated to your own specifications. This will not work at the census tract level, but will work at the PUMA (Public Use Microdata Area) level, which in New York City is roughly equivalent to the Community District level.

IPUMS abacus has the same microdata you can find in the census micro data access tool, but aims to make creating tabulations more user-friendly.

This New York Times story from August 31, 2023 contains a link to American Community Survey table S1810 (2021; 1-year estimates) in the second sentence of the first paragraph.

NBC News story from August 3, 2020. News analysis of census data shows the divide is wider in some metro areas than others.

Gotham Gazette story from March 23, 2021. Note that the link to the table on the Census website yields no results found. The author might have used this table from NYC Population Factfinder that remixes American Community Survey data as a trend over time: https://popfactfinder.planning.nyc.gov/explorer/cities/NYC?acsTopics=demo-hispanicSubgroup&compareTo=1&source=acs-change

NPR story from March 23, 2021.

Census Bureau feature highlighting newsworthy statistics.

Census Bureau feature highlighting stats related to holidays, anniversaries, and observances.