Resource Spotlight: Social Explorer

Social Explorer is an online research tool designed to provide quick and easy access to modern and historical census data and demographic information.

Key content
•Contains over 40 billion data points, over 200,000 variables, and over 15,000 interactive maps.
•Makes available the entire US census history from 1790 to 2000 with 2010 to be added when available, the American Community Survey (ACS) through the most current release, and the Religious Congregations and Membership Study (RCMS) from 1980 to 2000 with the addition of 2010 and other recent data planned. The RCMS is most complete census available on religion in the U.S.
•Creates thematic and interactive maps that make it easy to visually explore all historical and modern US census data across the centuries and down to the street level where and when possible.
•Creates reports at all geographic levels where data exist including the state, county, census tract, block group, zip code, census places and other.

You can access Social Explorer through the A-Z Databases list .

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