City and Regional Planning

Pulled data from ACS

Colonial period to 2000. Find historical data from many sources. Download tables.

The International Historical Geographic Information System (IPUMS IHGIS) provides data tables from population and housing censuses as well as agricultural censuses from around the world, along with corresponding GIS boundary files. Data from diverse published documents are provided in a standardized, ready-to-use structure with thorough, consistently formatted metadata.

IPUMS provides census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space. IPUMS integration and documentation makes it easy to study change, conduct comparative research, merge information across data types, and analyze individuals within family and community contexts. Data and services available free of charge.

Data files in economics, industry, demographics, trade, and health.

Free online access to summary statistics and GIS files for U.S. censuses and other nationwide surveys from 1790 through the present.

PolicyMap captures data in visually powerful ways through custom demographic maps, tables, reports and an analysis tool, Analytics. Available data includes demographics, home sale statistics, health data, mortgage trends, school performance scores and labor data like unemployment, crime statistics and city crime rates.

1878-present (some years missing (1970-2012) - see next entry); Use current edition with historical data or choose earlier edition. Offers an authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States.

Demographic information about the United States - Census: 1790 to 2010; American Community Survey; Religion.

[Annual pdf vols.] Contains a collection of statistics on a wide variety of social and economic conditions in the United States and selected international data. Most of the data comes from the census and other US government agency data

PDFs of old census volumes and searchable database for more recent.