Updated QuickFacts Tables Available from Census Bureau

Summary profiles for geographic areas have been updated with the most recent information from frequently requested statistics from various Census Bureau programs including the 2010 Census, 2010 American Community Survey and 2007 Survey of Business Owners. These easy to access and easy to use tables are now available for the nation, state and counties and have expanded from places with populations of 25,000 or more to places with 5,000 or more. Tables also provide links to more detailed data sets.

Census 2010 maps

The Program on Applied Demographics has posted over 100 maps showing almost all the indicators available in the Demographic Profile dataset for New York. Presently the subject matter of the maps concentrate on housing occupancy and tenure, household type (family, nonfamily) and the relationship (in household, in group quarters) but also include maps of population size and density. More population variables will be added.

The maps have been organized into three groupings—economic region, county/subcounty, and major cities. You can find a link to all these maps from the PAD home page. On the left side of the home page, there is a new section entitled Maps and carries with it the subtitle of Census 2010 Atlas. Click on that hyperlink and it will carry you to the map index page which shows the availability of maps by subject for the three levels of geography. (For the cities, we mapped the variables by tract.)

In terms of viewing the maps simply put your cursor on one of the check marks and click. At the bottom of each map page there are two nice browsing features. If you click the forward-backward buttons, you see other maps for the same geographic level. Or if you want to see more detail at a different level of geography, select from the change geographic detail list.

Age/sex/race in New York State

Based on Census 2010 Summary File 1 from data detective Jan K. Vink of the Program on Applied Demographics at Cornell University.

PAD brings skills in demographics, economics, statistics, data gathering and data analysis together to provide a variety of organizations and data analysis together to provide a variety of organizations with data, information and advice. PAD works closely with the New York State Department of Economic Development, the U.S. Census Bureau and other organizations to assist them in their activities. PAD maintains its own web site which has an extensive data section where viewers have access to the latest data on New York, including data from Census 2010.

Census Bureau Releases New Local-Level Demographic Info from 2010 Census for NY, 5 other states

The U.S. Census Bureau today released new, detailed demographic information from the 2010 Census for Arizona, Minnesota, Montana, New York, Oklahoma and Vermont.

These Summary File 1 tables provide the most detailed counts available so far from the 2010 Census, including cross-tabulations of age, sex, households, families, relationship to householder, housing units, detailed race and Hispanic or Latino origin groups, and group quarters. The statistics are available for a variety of geographic areas, with most tables available down to the block or census tract level.

What's Unique in Summary File 1

Summary File 1 provides new layers of detail about the topics covered in the 2010 Census and cross-tabulates many of these topics to provide a more nuanced picture. Beyond just providing counts of families, for example, the summary file also shows the number of families by type, by the age of the children present and by race and Hispanic origin of the householder.

Many of the tables are repeated for nine race and Hispanic or Latino origin groups: white alone, black or African-American alone, American Indian and Alaska Native alone, Asian alone, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, some other race, two or more races, Hispanic or Latino, and white alone not Hispanic or Latino.

New topics include:
•Single year of age by sex
•More detail on children, including adopted, stepchildren and grandchildren
•Race and Hispanic origin of householder
•More detail on household relationships
•Group quarters population by sex, age and group quarters type
•Housing tenure (rented or owned) by age, household type, race and Hispanic origin of householder
•Mortgage status of owned housing units

Census Bureau Director Groves Blogs

Census Bureau Director Robert Groves recently appeared as a guest blogger on the Department of Commerce’s website. Director Groves discusses the importance of the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee in this blog entry. He also recently discussed his personal lessons learned from the 2010 Census in his blog,located here.

Links to data, maps, analysis, and more about the 2010 Census

Compiled by the Center for Urban Research.

Population Center Videos

VIDEO: Population Center: What can we learn from these changes?
Description: In this video, Dr. Robert Groves, Director of the U.S. Census Bureau talks about the story the movement of the center of population tells about nation over the years and discusses four of the most prominent shifts throughout the centuries.


VIDEO: Population Center: What trends or changes can we see?
Description: In this video, Dr. Robert Groves, Director of the U.S. Census Bureau discusses the two major trends to the shifts of the center of population.


VIDEO: Population Center: How are the centers of population marked and can I go see them?
Description: In this video, Dr. Robert Groves, Director of the U.S. Census Bureau describes how the centers of population are marked and where you can find them.

Zoomable block-level Census change maps for the NYC metro area

The CUNY Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research has launched a set of interactive maps showing detailed race/ethnicity change at the local level throughout the New York City metro region, along with an analysis of the changes in New York City.

The maps use the “before and after” technique that the NY Times and others have used effectively for images of natural disasters. But they’ve integrated the slider technique with two overlapping sets of interactive maps via OpenLayers (an open source online mapping framework), so you can slide between the two (showing 2000 and 2010 block-level maps of predominant race/ethnicity patterns) while also zooming in and out and clicking on individual Census blocks for detailed population data.

The color-shaded maps are overlain on a Microsoft basemap – you can set the transparency of the map dynamically so place names and streets become more or less visible, and also switch between the Bing street map and aerial imagery.

Here’s a direct link to the maps. They also have an analysis of the data for New York City, plus static 2000-to-2010 maps with the slider for New York’s 5 boroughs.

Demographic profile reports

The Missouri Census Data Center has converted the final files in the SF1 Demographic Profile series as released by the Census Bureau. The data tables are accessible via uexplore/dexter. It has also created a set of 4 reports based on these data. Here is the menu page to facilitate access to these reports.

2010 Census Demographic Profile Summary File now released for entire country

The Demographic Profile contains information on topics such as sex, age, race, Hispanic or Latino origin, household relationship, household type, group quarters population, housing occupancy, and home ownership. See information for the nation and individual states.
You can also explore these data on a new interactive map.

GAME TIME! with Census data

Can you name the US cities that added the most people between the 2000 census and the 2010 census?

Can you name the US cities that lost the most people between the 2000 census and the 2010 census?

Clue: at least one New York city is in each category.

PAD website updated with new Census 2010 data

The Demographic Profiles have been released for New York. Cornell's Program on Applied Demographics web site is updated and contains some of that data.

The main page for Census 2010 data.

There is also a report [PDF] describing the changed age composition in NY and comparing it between economic regions.
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The Census Bureau release info.

Census Director Outlines His Vision for Moving Bureau Forward

Census Bureau Director Robert M. Groves discusses lessons learned and the future of the Census Bureau with the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services and International Security. Groves highlighted early quality indicators of the 2010 Census, outlined organizational changes geared to building the Census Bureau of the future and discussed planning efforts under way for a successful 2020 Census.

Links to data, maps, analysis, and more about the 2010 Census

On March 24, 2011, the Census Bureau completed its state-by-state publication of official population counts from the 2010 decennial census. Data for New York State was included in this last release of states.

The Center for Urban Research has helpfully compiled much of the information available thus far.

2010 Census Advertising Campaign Earns Prestigious Ogilvy Awards

Read about it HERE or HERE.

Increase in household size could slow economic recovery

From USA Today:

The number of people living under one roof is growing for the first time in more than a century, a fallout of the recession that could reduce demand for housing and slow the recovery.

The Census Bureau had projected the average household size would continue to fall to 2.53 this year. Instead, the average is likely to hit 2.63, a small but significant increase because it is a turnabout.

Geographic Products Branch Information

The 2010 Census Geographic Products page is a resource for geographic and cartographic products related to the release of the 2010 Census.

In the past week, Census has released:
Updated Geographic Change Notes – Census 2000 – January 1, 2010
Geographic Comparability File –Places
TIGER/Line Shapefiles – national update including Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas and other related Statistical Areas, Military Installations, Tribal Census Tracts, and Tribal Block Groups
2010 Census to Census/2000 Census Tract Relationship File –
Centers of Population

Other selected geographic products currently available:

Reference:
Geographic Terms and Concepts
Tallies of Geographic Entities by state
Block Assignment Files
Name Look-up Tables
Gazetteer Files for Counties, County Subdivisions, Places, Tracts, Congressional Districts, School Districts, and State Legislative Districts

Maps:
Census Tract Reference Maps
County Block Maps
Voting District/State Legislative District Reference Maps
School District Reference Maps
2010 Census Total Population & Population Change Maps

On the 2010 Census Geographic Products page you will also find other reference resources, relationship files, and maps to support the 2010 Census. We are continuing to add products as they become available. If you have any questions about these products please contact geo.geography@census.gov or (301) 763-1128.

The 10 most segregated urban areas in America

From Salon.com:

Decades after the end of Jim Crow, and three years after the election of America's first black president, the United States remains a profoundly segregated country.

That reality has been reinforced by the release of Census Bureau data last week that shows black and white Americans still tend to live in their own neighborhoods, often far apart from each other.

2010 Center of Population

The U.S. mean center of population, as of April 1, 2010, is near Plato, Mo., an incorporated village in Texas County. The U.S. Census Bureau calculated this point as the place where an imaginary, flat, weightless and rigid map of the United States would balance perfectly if all 308,745,538 residents counted in the 2010 Census were of identical weight.

Ever since Chestertown, Md., was determined to be the center of population after the first census was conducted in 1790, the center of population has told the story of America, illustrating how we've grown as a nation. It follows a trail across the country ─ across Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Missouri ─ that reflects our history of settling the frontier, manifest destiny, waves of immigration and regional migration.

The Census Bureau will install a commemorative "geodetic control mark" at a site near the official coordinates during a dedication ceremony in April 2011. This survey disc will be used by satellites and land surveyors to conduct scientific surveys to generate precise position data that serve as the foundation for accurate mapping and charting in America.

The Mean Center of Population

37.517534 N, 92.173096 W
Coordinates (latitude, longitude) in decimal degrees of the 2010 mean center of population and the most western and southern point in our nation's history, as well as the most southerly movement from the previous decade.

2.7
Distance in miles from the center of population coordinates to Plato, Mo., the nearest incorporated municipality and nearest place for which the Census Bureau provides data.

109
The 2010 Census population of Plato, Mo.

26,008
The 2010 Census population of Texas County, Mo., where the village of Plato is located.

Historical Path of the Mean Center of Population

4
Number of times the mean center of population has been placed in Missouri:
1980-2010.

23.4
Distance in miles from Edgar Springs, Mo., the 2000 mean center of population, to Plato, Mo., the 2010 center of population.

872.9
Distance in miles from Chestertown, Md., the 1790 mean center of population, to Plato, Mo., the 2010 mean center of population.

1870
The U.S. census with the most northerly movement of the center of population from the previous decade ─ 44 miles from Beaver, Ohio, to Hillsboro, Ohio.

1860
The U.S. census with the largest increase in distance of the mean center of population from the previous decade ─ the 80.4 miles from Elizabeth, W.Va., to Beaver, Ohio, as well as the most westerly movement from the prior census.

1920
The U.S. census with the smallest increase in distance of the mean center of population from the previous decade ─ from downtown Bloomington, Ind., to a spot 9.7 miles to the northwest.

More Census 2010 data!

Census data from Program on Applied Demographics (PAD) at Cornell University, which "brings skills in demographics, economics, statistics, data gathering and data analysis together to provide a variety of organizations with data, information and advice. PAD works closely with the New York State Department of Economic Development, the U.S. Census Bureau and other organizations to assist them in their activities. "

The New York Times interactive map: Mapping the 2010 U.S. Census.