American Community Survey - City Profiles

About the ACS

The American Community Survey (ACS) is a nationwide, continuous survey designed to provide communities with reliable and timely demographic, housing, social, and economic data every year. Information from the ACS help determine how trillions of dollars in federal and state funds are distributed.

Data from the ACS are published as one-year averages for areas with more than 65,000 people and five-year averages for all areas. Data in the five-year averages (used in the dashboard above) are inflation-adjusted to the last year in the five-year range. Survey responses are aggregated based on the city boundaries in place (and reported on the Census Bureau's Boundary and Annexation Survey) on January 1st of the last year in the five-year range. More information can be found on the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS page at: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/.

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