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title: "Other Sources of Census Data"
description: "Census 2010 datasets are finding a second home on the websites of think tanks, state data centers and advocacy groups that have repackaged the numbers in easy-to-use look-up formats."
date: "2011-04-25"
authors:
  - name: "D’Vera Cohn"
    job_title: "Former Senior Writer/Editor"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/dvera-cohn/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2011/04/25/other-sources-of-census-data/"
---

# Other Sources of Census Data

Census 2010 datasets are finding a second home on the websites of think tanks, state data centers and advocacy groups that have repackaged the numbers in easy-to-use look-up formats. These sites are especially useful for people who only want one or two numbers, or who have not yet mastered the details of the American FactFinder look-up tool on the Census Bureau website.

For example, the Census Bureau last week released population counts, down to the block level, for[ seven kinds of group quarters, ](http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/2010_census/cb11-tps13.html)but the numbers are only available via the bureau's data-firehose FTP site, which is intended for expert users. (An All Things Census posting in February explains [why these numbers are being released earlier than usual.](https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2010/02/11/counting-prisoners-in-the-2010-census/)) Two public policy advocacy groups, the Prison Policy Institute and Demos, have released a free look-up tool with [block-level tables of correctional facilities](http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2011/04/22/group-quarters-released/), searchable by county.

Using the bureau's redistricting file, the US2010 project has posted easy look-ups of [race and ethnic data for metropolitan areas and for cities](http://www.s4.brown.edu/us2010/segregation2010/Default.aspx) with populations of 10,000 or more, as well as residential segregation indices. CensusScope has a rich trove of [counts from the 2010 Census and earlier censuses ](http://www.censusscope.org/2010Census/index.php)for total populations, race/ethnic groups and the race/ethnic composition of the child populations for states, metropolitan areas, counties and cities (and metro-area segregation indices). And, of course, the Pew Hispanic Center has [2000 and 2010 Hispanic and non-Hispanic census counts](https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/census-2010/) for every state and county.

Many State Data Centers ([here is a map with links to all of them](http://www.census.gov/sdc/network.html)) have repackaged census data for their localities in simple-to-use tables. In Alaska, the look-up includes [Alaska native villages and tribal areas ](http://live.laborstats.alaska.gov/cen/)as well as cities, boroughs and other units of geography. [California offers detailed data](http://www.dof.ca.gov/research/demographic/state_census_data_center/census_2010/view.php) and some numbers from earlier years. [Colorado offers rankings](http://dola.colorado.gov/demog-cms/content/census-data) as well as data. Connecticut offers a [color-coded map of population change](http://ctsdc.uconn.edu/mashup/census_2010_pl_94_171_change_viewer.html) and [Indiana has population maps by school district](http://www.stats.indiana.edu/topic/census.asp) and other geographies. Pennsylvania has [detailed group quarters numbers for each of its counties.](http://pasdc.hbg.psu.edu/Data/Census2010/tabid/1489/Default.aspx)